Giving Birth?

RE: Giving Birth?

Hi,

The feeling is still with me this morning, a bit strange but positive. I have no desire or broody feelings at all so am not thinking about starting a family for a long while!

Your hormones, maternal feelings and your natural instincts towards being a mother will never be 100% govrened by your logical decisions or family planning.

For a woman it is natural for the subconscious to explore issues which are a potential large part of a woman's life, your reproductive system and hormones are always with you in some way shape or form and affect you in sometimes subtle and not so subtle ways.

The main element is me giving birth, rather graphically to a lovely baby. I go into the next room with my baby and my Mum is there and she also has just given birth and is washing some black clothes in an old fashioned roll top bath. The clothes gave me a bad feeling. She then shows me how to breast feed, which doesn't hurt but I was scared it would.

Babies and giving birth are understood to have a variety of meanings in dreams, in the context you describe I feel that this has several meanings which really stand out.

1 - your femininity and cycle etc as described before

2 - your own personal way of leaving your mark...when one has a baby you suddenly realise that you are having profound affect on your child, their future in millions of ways, everything you do might have some sort of consequence, mothers naturally want to do what is right for their off spring..I believe that your maturing as an individual and learning of consequence(something young peple have little understanding of) is part of your dream.

The other part of this same issue is how this passing on relates also to one's parents, how they teach us many things which might be useful and we might pass on, other things we choose to reject or do our own way, so what you have here is an adult discovering in a adult phase the independance of adulthood..this is different to what young adults go through as teenagers.

Here you have described the respect for parents you continue to keep, that you still feel reliant on them to a point but also need to make your own path as an individual adult.

I go into the next room with my baby and my Mum is there and she also has just given birth

but someone I didnt know and we had to hide from my Dad who was looking for us.

I think this is about seeing your parents on a level nearer to your own, when people become adults they often sympathise with their parents in a different way, with regards to your mother, I feel this is both empathy and respect, but also that you are an individual who will have your own methods.

black clothes in an old fashioned roll top bath. The clothes gave me a bad feeling. She then shows me how to breast feed, which doesn't hurt but I was scared it would.

I can relate to this and feel it like the way after giving birth you for a moment or two wonder if you will lose your identity as a young woman and will lose independance and whether you can cope with the changes, it is all nreve wracking.

There can be this feeling of having a baby as being a route to a bleak existance and being shut away, perhaps like some people used to become, that life will leave you behind.

These are all very normal fears that many women have about changing from a young lady to mother, that is in you and you recognise it as your future path and your mind is considreing the pros and cons.

I did seem to go to a pub to meet the father of the baby but it wasn't my fiance, but someone I didnt know and we had to hide from my Dad who was looking for us.

This might be a suconscious thought and concern for future stability and the way many people like to feel their life is mapped out tidily and they know where they are going and have already decided the way it shall be.

here you also have elements of doing the right things and the wrong things and as an adult d

RE: Giving Birth?

Thanks Hamilah,

This is really interesting. Having lived away from home for 4 years now, I am starting to see parents as friends also but there is still the respect.

Glad to hear that the baby thing isn't that I am expecting!

I also have a puppy now and am very concious of how I train her and how our pet are often seen as little versions of ourselves.

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RE: Giving Birth?

Dear Aimsworth,

Lots of the older women in my family used to say that to dream of certain things and one in particular that I remember is giving birth to a baby.

It may well be an old wives tale, but they all believed that to dream of giving birth to a baby signified a trouble period or situation coming to an end.

This probably doesnt make any sense but I just thought I would post it anyway.

Blessings
emeraldstar

RE: Giving Birth?

Hello,

Giving birth in dreams can also mean "something new" that is ready to come in your life. But it could be that your partner is not going to be too involved with this (father of the baby is someone else)? Maybe you are thinking of some new plans you think your father would not be very happy with?

Artemis