I had my first “baby dream” this week. I’ve had dreams before about having a baby, but not in a long time and definitely not since I got pregnant. In the dream, I suddenly had a baby and was at home with her. I literally did not remember giving birth. Adam had to tell me about it. But I think the worst part was that I was completely incapable of taking care of this child. I kept dropping the baby and had no idea what to do with her. I totally didn’t know how to feed her. I’d say the only plus of this dream was that I was really thin and already fit into all of my pre-pregnancy clothes. Priorities, right? Needless to say, I was crazy-relieved when I woke up and realized that, no, I hadn’t actually given birth yet. Lots of time to learn how to be capable. 
I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised by this dream. When Adam and I were thinking about getting a dog, I had dreams about forgetting to feed the dog for a month and finding it near death. I frequently have dreams where I’m being chased (by Nazis, secret agents, monsters, etc.), so I think anxiety dreams are just par for the course for me. And it’s funny, because I feel like I’m a lot less anxious than I used to be, but perhaps my subconscious hasn’t figured that out yet. Or perhaps I’m deluding myself about being less stressed. At the very least, I’m happy, and stress is much easier to deal with when you’re smiling.
September 30th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
I’ve always been a vivid dreamer and when I was pregnant, my dreams got even more bizarre. I had one where I was in a different country and there was some big explosion in the sky. I was so busy looking at the explosion that I lost track of my child. I spent the rest of the night looking for her and eventually found her at some weird circus thing where she was clapping and pointing at elephants. I was totally exhausted when I woke up. I think dreams like this are our minds way of releasing fear and anxiety about things. Or, at least that’s the dream books say :-p. Congratulations on your happy news, by the way!
October 1st, 2008 at 7:50 pm
I had crazy baby dreams too. I had a dream that I gave birth to a cat. Then I had a dream that I gave birth to a baby of an obviously different race then my husband and I–which I was at a loss for how to explain in the dream.
The next year to two will be a roller coaster of hormones. Enjoy the ride and don’t take anything too seriously!
October 12th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
My mom says she had dreams all the time where she had babies and kept stepping on them, but then they stopped, and her doctor said it probably meant she was ready to have a baby. I have dreams fairly frequently that I have a baby, but I keep misplacing it or forgetting about it (and the father of said baby? Always immaculate conception.) But I’d go with the experiences of the moms in this thread. I find dreams fascinating but not really all that relevant to the waking world, at least most of the time. Sweet dreams to you! I can’t imagine you being anything but an excellent mother.