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Overall, being pregnant for the first time is a wonderful and exciting experience for most women. But it can also be a little bit scary. You take those surging hormones and combine them with a fear of the unknown, and a girl can get pretty worked up.
Actress Jessica Alba, who is expecting her first child, knows all about that. She tells Extra that she's having baby dreams and feeling overly-emotional lately. Like most first-timers, she has anxieties related to becoming a mother, but not in the way you might expect. She's not concerned so much about giving birth, but about the breastfeeding that follows and her fears have seeped into her dreams. "[One dream] had to do with breastfeeding, which is the only thing I'm paranoid about. More than giving birth," she said.
She is also finding herself quicker to anger and easily brought to tears. "Anything could make me incredibly angry or break down crying. That's not something I'm used to," she says.
I was a big cry baby when I was pregnant, too. Bursting into tears for no good reason was embarrassing and unsettling and I felt like I didn't even know myself anymore. But it was the dreams that I remember most. I have always been one to have vivid dreams that I usually remember the next morning. But when I was pregnant, the dreams were much more intense. All those things I wouldn't allow myself to worry about during the day would come spilling out in the form of bizarre and disturbing nocturnal adventures. I had a recurring dream where I had lost my baby and was searching everywhere for her. I always found her, but in a weird place like in a drawer or under the bed.
What about you? Did you have bizarre dreams when you were pregnant? Do you remember any of them?
Actress Jessica Alba, who is expecting her first child, knows all about that. She tells Extra that she's having baby dreams and feeling overly-emotional lately. Like most first-timers, she has anxieties related to becoming a mother, but not in the way you might expect. She's not concerned so much about giving birth, but about the breastfeeding that follows and her fears have seeped into her dreams. "[One dream] had to do with breastfeeding, which is the only thing I'm paranoid about. More than giving birth," she said.
She is also finding herself quicker to anger and easily brought to tears. "Anything could make me incredibly angry or break down crying. That's not something I'm used to," she says.
I was a big cry baby when I was pregnant, too. Bursting into tears for no good reason was embarrassing and unsettling and I felt like I didn't even know myself anymore. But it was the dreams that I remember most. I have always been one to have vivid dreams that I usually remember the next morning. But when I was pregnant, the dreams were much more intense. All those things I wouldn't allow myself to worry about during the day would come spilling out in the form of bizarre and disturbing nocturnal adventures. I had a recurring dream where I had lost my baby and was searching everywhere for her. I always found her, but in a weird place like in a drawer or under the bed.
What about you? Did you have bizarre dreams when you were pregnant? Do you remember any of them?
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1-24-2008 @ 3:42PM
Mel H. said...Ha. Totally!
I had this reoccuring dream while pregnant where I would go about living my pre-baby life as normal until I would hear a baby cry from an adjacent room. Remembering "Oh yeah...I have a child", I would go and nonchalently throw a couple handfuls of granola bars in the crib in an attempt to pacify the baby before returning to my own agenda. I would wake up so upset and convinced I would be a terrible parent or that maybe I wasn't really ready for this.
I also had a terrible pregnancy dream about breastfeeding...my husband handed me our brand new baby to nurse, but I looked down to discover I had delivered a toddler sized child with a mouthful of pointy fang like teeth. Still makes me shudder to think about.
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1-24-2008 @ 3:54PM
Candi said...I had dreams just like that, only I would always find her in the top of my closet in a shoe box.
Also, when I was pregnant with my son in 1999, I had this extremely vivid dream where I was in labor, in the backseat of my mother's rodeo, and I could see the outline of tre's face on my stomach, like he was pushing his face on my belly. Then, when we got to the hospital, he was born with a full set of teeth and started talking and telling me things that were going to happen in the future!I dont remember what he said, but that dream scared the S*** out of me!!!
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1-24-2008 @ 4:04PM
J9 said...I cried a lot. I remember bawling while watching Smallville. It was the episode where Clark's dad dies. And, I had a few weird dreams. One that I remember was that I had my baby who didn't look like my husband or I. And over the course of my dream, he morphed into a puppy. Strange...
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1-24-2008 @ 4:36PM
Judy said...I had a dream when pg with my first that I gave birth and when she looked at me she had the face of an alien. I also dreamt her first word was "green beans."
The thing is, I usually have very strange and vivid dreams all the time - I've been dreaming of alligators lately - but while pg they weren't that weird or vivid.
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1-24-2008 @ 8:42PM
Melissa said...I dreamed the I gave birth to kittens, and I said, "No way I'm breastfeeding that! The teeth!" The kitten then turned into a baby, which kept getting smaller and smaller until I couldn't see it anymore, and I was crying that I'd lost my baby.
Anxiety dreams? Oh, goodness, yes.
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1-24-2008 @ 9:33PM
Erin said...I am always overly emotional anyway, and when I was pregnant it was even worse. I spent a good bit of each day crying my eyes out for no reason. I also constantly had some variation of the following dream: I'm just living my life normally when all of a sudden I remember I have a baby, and it's been DAYS since I fed him lol. I was confident that after my baby was born I would have a really hard time remembering to do all the major things, like feed, change diapers, etc. but of course everything worked out just fine and I never forgot a thing!
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