[Oreobaby]

I seem to forget that eating popcorn gives me weird dreams, and mixed with pregnancy hormones gives me horrible dreams. LOL. We bought cheesy Dill popcorn from Kernals (I'm not sure if you have Kernals down in the states, but it is a popcorn place that sells flavored popcorn. Both salty and sweet)

Well I had the most horrible dream last night...I woke up feeling horrible. It is the first baby dream I have had since I have been pregnant this time. I guess because I am getting so far along, I am starting to have the dreams, and actually begin to rellize this is ACTUALLY going to happen this time around.

Anyway, DH and I were at home (but it wasn't the home we are in now, so that was kind of confusing) And we were watching TV, and I can hear this insistant crying, and it is annoying me, so I turn the TV up, and it just keeps going on and on, and it's not stopping, and I can't figure out what the heck it is, and why the heck that childs mother is not doing something to make that child feel better, since it sounds like they are crying bloody murder, and then it dawns on me...DUH, I'm that childs mom, and what a horrible mother I am that I just ignored my child for a good half hour while they scream at the top of their lungs!! So I run into the back room, and there is my baby stuck...(on her dresser, so I'm not sure how she got there) and she can't get off, and she can't move, and she is just terrified, and I grabbed her and hugged her, and started crying myself, and telling her it will all be ok, and that I'm so so sorry that I let her sit their and cry. UGH, it was horrible.

I am never eating popcorn before bed again. I know it was just a dream, but I can't believe how bad I felt and how real it felt, stupid hormones!! I am glad that it was a dream, and I know that I could NEVER forget about my baby girl!!!

[MarinaAndCharlie'sMommy]

Sorry about the bad dream Marci. Pregnancy will certainly give you some weird ones that's for sure. Hope you don't have too many more of them.

[amazing_love]

I'm sorry you had a bad dream! I've been having so many nightmares lately, not associated with popcorn, lol. I hate it!

[Cheryl_W]

Oh I'm sorry you had a bad dream Marci... Hugs!

I know a lot of my pregnancy dreams have actually been related to fears I haven't been addressing... Whether I can rely on DH, how we're going to handle being our own family and separating from our mothers/fathers as a family unit, whether I'm going to be a good mom, etc.

I found that once I acknowledged those fears, and started to work through them, the dreams pretty much stopped. I had some bad ones, too - dreams like that, about leaving my baby somewhere and getting angry at them... I even had a dream where I spanked my baby - woke up sobbing from that one.

But then I realized that I was afraid of being able to handle the baby, handle all of the stress of being a new mommy, and since I wasn't talking about it while I was awake it was coming out in my dreams. I started talking to my mom, my sister, and DH about my fears... Whether I'd be a good mom, whether I'd end up losing our baby after it was born because I didn't know something or couldn't figure something out and it died... It was really irrational, but once I talked about it and they reminded me that feeling like that was NORMAL - the dreams have been gone ever since.

And so has the worry and the fear.

So yeah - no more popcorn for you, but if you're feeling nervous about things, maybe its time to talk about them with your DH (or even with us! We're always here ) to make those nasty dreams go away!

Much hunnie!