pregnancy nightmares and dangerous research

[stephanieburgis]

Huh. So, pregnant women in their 3rd trimesters are notorious for having strange, vivid dreams. Last night I had my most vivid and uncomfortable yet. It was one of those dreams that felt absolutely real, down to going through it in what felt exactly like real time - and, of all the things to go through in real time, I dreamed that I was going

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[_stranger_here]

Those dreams and random weird anxieties are so much a part of this stage. It's so disorienting to have your body taken over and to be carrying something so fragile around inside you, and it makes you so vulnerable...

This was me at about my fourth month. The dreams only got weirder from there.

[stephanieburgis]

Oh, thank you for that link! It felt so good to read it and be reassured about the normality of the whole thing.

(But oh, I'm jealous you got to eat peanut butter back then! They keep cutting more and more things from pregnant women's diets every year, and they're always because of the most insanely miniscule risk factors...but I'm too much of a paranoid rule-follower not to obey my list of Forbidden Foods. Sigh. I don't miss peanut butter as much as I miss coffee, but it's definitely up there on the list...)

[_stranger_here]

Dude, I cut out cigarettes and raw-fish sushi for nine months and figured I'd paid my debt to society. This baby was constructed almost entirely out of Doritos. Don't worry, people have been breeding under all kinds of Forbidden circumstances for a very long time now, and the human race has survived. You're doing great.

[stephanieburgis]

Well, if I stuck completely to the "rules", I would never eat! I realized just how ridiculous it had gotten a couple of months ago, when I went into a major guilt trip because I had carelessly eaten a salad at a restaurant, forgetting that - according to the pregnancy books - I must never, ever eat a salad that I haven't seen handwashed myself, Just In Case there happens to be an epidemic of listeria in the country, because You Never Know....gaah. I've given in to a lot of guilt in my time, but I find it impossible to give in to total guilt over eating salad!

Right now I'm proud to have cut out coffee, but between my daily cups of tea and bars of dark chocolate, I'm trying not to think too carefully about exactly how much caffeine I actually am ingesting...I figure the baby should just be grateful I'm no longer sucking down double lattes all the time!

[beth_bernobich]

Oh lord, the pregnancy nightmares. I had one (yes, exhausting) dream about preparing to go on a trip, but I'd misplaced the baby, which I found after a frantic search through the luggage.

[stephanieburgis]

Oh, wow. Definitely the same wavelength!

I haven't had that one (yet), but I had a horrible dream that the midwives had switched babies, and I knew it but no one else believed it...yuck! I woke up feeling very shaky.

[beth_bernobich]

The dreams go away, to be replaced by realistic worries. :)

[stephanieburgis]

Eek. So, no improvement, then...