As long as your doctor has given you the okay, sex during pregnancy — even some role-playing and bondage — is safe and actually good for you, so go ahead and act on your urges when you wake up!
Don't lose any sleep over your dreams and fantasies. They're completely normal and extremely common among expecting moms. Even the most nightmarish dreams can be a positive sign that your subconscious is trying to regain some control during a time of big change.
Vivid dreams are also completely normal and common among pregnant women's partners. They're your partner's way of working out his or her own set of subconscious anxieties, even though pregnancy hormones aren't to blame! So swap tales of your dreams with your partner, if you have one. It can be fun as well as therapeutic — plus it might even help bring you closer together.
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Lara-Carrasco, J. Disturbed dreaming during the third trimester of pregnancy. Sleep medicine, 15 6 , — Schredl, M. Nightmare frequency in last trimester of pregnancy. BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 16 1 , Blake, R. The pregnancy-related dreams of pregnant women.
Nielsen, T. Dream-associated behaviors affecting pregnant and postpartum women. Sleep, 30 9 , — Dagan, Y. A woman's feelings about her body may either improve or deteriorate during pregnancy. In this dream, the "spare tire" represents an expanding midsection.
Driving a vehicle is often a metaphor for the way the dreamer is moving through life at the moment. Pregnant women frequently picture themselves driving trucks, buses, or other vehicles that are more difficult to maneuver than cars in their dreams, reflecting their perception of awkward movement.
Researchers who have studied pregnant women's dreams note frequent references to buildings, from simple rooms to soaring skyscrapers. The dream buildings are often places where things are made, such as a factory or a shipyard, probably paralleling the "making" of a baby that is taking place inside the woman's body.
From goldfish bowls to swelling oceans, a pregnant woman's dreams often feature water. A mother-to-be will often find herself swimming in her dreams. When animals appear in dreams, they may be aquatic creatures, such as tadpoles and fish. This water in her dreams possibly depicts an awareness of the water gathering in her womb. Water in dreams may take on a dramatic form as pregnancy progresses. Toward her due date, a pregnant woman is more likely to dream of water as a symbol of the "breaking waters" that announce imminent childbirth.
One woman at the end of her second trimester dreamed of big ocean waves that rose around her. Near me on a chair is a pet of hers, a monkey. I keep my distance from him, afraid he might bite. He climbs around on the furniture and nibbles on some squash in a hanging basket.
Many pregnant women's dreams feature animals that are baby-like, such as pups, chicks, and kittens. Depending on her attitude toward the pregnancy, her partner, and her situation, the animal may be either threatening or lovable. The dream above suggests this mom-to-be felt some ambivalence about the effect of the strange new creature coming into her life.
Would its presence be destructive? The presence of friendly animals — rare and charming creatures in dreams — is generally thought to represent a good relationship between the dreamer and his or her instincts. In the dreams of many pregnant women, animals are frequently cuddly and cute.
I put one bag inside the other and offer this to him. He takes the doubled-up bag and I feel happy. Sometimes, an expectant mother may have nightmares that her partner is having an affair. Or she may picture other people propositioning her loved one. Such dreams express a sense of insecurity about holding the partner's love and attention through a time of great change. For most women, happily, the insecurity is unfounded and passes.
Many women actually find that going through the experience of preparing for a baby's arrival and giving birth bonds her and her partner in a deep way. I can see the back of my child skipping before me happily. I can't tell from the back whether it's a boy or a girl. Sometimes a pregnant mother's dreams about the sex of her child are vague. Other times, mothers feel quite certain of their child's sex based on their dreams. One researcher tried to verify how frequently pregnant women correctly sensed the sex of their unborn child by asking her subjects about predictive dreams.
She found that 50 percent of the expectant mothers whose dreams she investigated had accurately dreamed of the baby's sex. I can see our baby girl, and she looks just like us. She has my eyes, all dark and sparkly, and my husband's cute little bow mouth. She's a mixture of us in miniature. Dreams offer the chance to imagine your child. Studies show that pregnant women see their babies in about 15 percent of their dreams. Other researchers have reported an even greater number of baby dreams during the third trimester.
I'm pregnant but not so much as I am now. I have a bad feeling, like I don't really want to go. This dream expresses an emotion women typically experience toward the end of pregnancy: fear of the unknown.
Giving birth can be like a journey to a foreign country. In addition to being depicted as a journey or an important commitment, birth may be represented in dreams as traveling through tunnels and corridors.
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