As we mentioned in the last post, we’ve been reading a lot of books about being pregnant and one or two about having a baby. The amount of information available is overwhelming. One of the books–I cannot, as usual, remember which–mentioned that there was a good chance that all that thinking about parenting could cause a mother to have lots of dreams about her baby while she was pregnant. It failed to mention, however, that the same thing might happen to the father.
While Kelly has not reported an unusual dream life in the last few months, I probably have bizarre baby dreams 2 or 3 times a week. Here are some bits of the stories my subconscious has come up with:
- We are about to have the baby, but 150 of our relatives and friends are at the hospital. They are having a party, or at least talking and laughing a lot. I feel bad for leaving them, so I stay with them. Then I miss the birth, and I feel worse. But I feel worst of all when I finally go to the delivery room and discover that we already have a second child.
- We have our baby! I miss the birth. The baby is is the size of a toad. Thankfully, we are completely unconcerned, since it will get bigger.
- The baby has to stay at the hospital for weeks. This is totally normal, and what every baby does. When I finally go to bring our child home, he is already mobile. Instead of learning to crawl like a normal child, he propels himself by scooting forward on his knees. He is very fast. We are sad that we missed this important developmental milestone.
… And that’s why I’m sometimes very glad to wake up and discover that we don’t have a baby yet.
To the parents who read our blog: did you have weird baby dreams?
With the scooting on the knees thing that is entertaining.
When Chrystal and I are in the nursery at church one of the toddlers would scoot around on his bottom he refused to walk, he was well above the age to walk just decided he didn’t want to yet, but he sure could get around on his bottom fast. Hist mother said that he has worn through quite a few jeans and stuff and even has burned his bottom on the sidewalk on a hot day.
Yes! I had crazy-weird baby dreams all the time!
nope. I still haven’t had any crazy baby dreams. Sorry.
Jonathan, you make me laugh! I have had crazy dreams about the babys at work- true story! My co-workers say the same thing. Maybe it’s just the concept of babies that makes your brain crazy at night.
This made me laugh out loud, Jonathan, you are a great story-teller.