To the left are links to some of the dreams women have sent us about their pregnancies or babies. If you have an interest in the spiritual experiences of Divine signs or intuition during pregnancy, you might want to read our articles and stories pertaining to those too.

Below are some commonly asked questions about pregnancy dreams, along with our responses.

I dreamed I was pregnant. Does this mean I'm really pregnant?
Many women do first learn about their pregnancy from a dream. Jonelle and Sherry are two examples. They're not alone. In fact, 57% of the 61 women who filled out our initial pregnancy survey dreamed about being pregnant very early in their pregnancies, before taking a pregnancy test.

Yet not every pregnancy dream indicates a need to schedule a doctor's appointment! Dreaming of being pregnant can be symbolic of other things, too. It may mean, for example, that the dreamer is about to embark on a new adventure of some sort in her daily life. Maybe she's about to get a new job or a promotion at work, or maybe she's about to come up with ("give birth to") some fabulous idea that will make a real difference in her life or the lives of others. Dreaming of being pregnant may indicate an actual pregnancy or some other type of change occurring in the life of the dreamer.

How can I tell if this is a prophetic dream or not?
What does your intuition tell you? Often, prophetic dreams come along with a strong inner feeling of the dream being true. You may wake up with the feeling of having been forewarned, prepared, or alerted to some news. Or the dream may just simply feel true to you. If you are unsure as to if your dream is prophetic or not, you can ask God for some confirmation in the form of a sign or another dream, if you'd like. You can also be on the lookout for further clues in your day-to-day life.

I dreamed about my baby's gender last night. Can I rely on this information and start painting the nursery pink (or blue)?
Many women do have dreams that indicate the baby's gender. Of the 61 women completing our first pregnancy survey, 36 of them (59%) reported having a dream about the baby's gender.

How accurate are women's dreams regarding the baby's gender? In a different study published in the September 1999 issue of "Birth," pregnant women who had not found out the gender of their baby via an ultrasound were asked to guess what their unborn baby's gender would be. Of those who were relying on a pregnancy dream for guidance to the question and who also had over 12 years of education, 100% were correct in their guesses. (Granted, this was a very small sample size. Only eight women in their study fit in this category of having over 12 years of education and of relying on a pregnancy dream to predict their baby's gender.) Women with over 12 years of education who were relying on an inner feeling to predict the gender of their baby were accurate 76% of the time. Women with more than a high school education relying on other things besides dreams or inner feelings to help them predict the gender of their babies, as well as women with less than a high school education no matter what they were using to make their predictions, were less likely to be accurate in their guesses.

As mentioned in the question about prophetic dreams above, intuition coupled with one or more dreams provides more assurance than either alone. Catherine's story is an example of this. She not only dreamed about the gender of her first two babies, but also strongly sensed what their gender would be. She was right in each case.

Although the majority of the women I've spoken with gave birth to the same sex baby that they dreamed of, I wouldn't suggest using only the information gained in a dream to paint the baby's nursery, unless you don't mind possibly having to repaint it after the baby's birth! We have heard a few responses of mothers who's babies ended up being the opposite gender from what they dreamed they would be. Interestingly, a few mothers have even reported to us that they dreamed in one pregnancy of a baby they actually had following a subsequent pregnancy.

Also, it appears that in some cases a mother-to-be so strongly wants a baby of a particular gender that it can cloud the accuracy or clarity of her dreams. Terri, for example, already had a boy from a previous pregnancy and was really hoping for a girl from her second pregnancy. During this second pregnancy she had an interesting dream about her unborn baby's gender. In the dream, she and her husband repeatedly told each other quite firmly and with conviction that their second baby would be a boy. Terri emphasised to me how sure she and her husband were in the dream that their second baby would be a boy. Yet, during the same dream, Terri went into labor. The baby of her dreams turned out to be a girl. A few months later, when Terri actually went into labor and delivered, she gave birth to a boy. Perhaps Terri's dream reflected that even though her "dream baby" - the baby she was hoping for - was a girl, she and her husband would in fact be having a boy, as the beginning of the dream had emphasized.

Therefore it's important for those wishing to gather real information about their unborn babies to remain as neutral as possible as to what that information will be. If you are strongly preferring one gender over the other, you may dream about the baby you are hoping for rather than the one you are actually having. Asking God for some confirmation about your dream in the form of a sign, and also relying on your inner senses rather than your desires, may be helpful.

I think my dream is a symbolic one. How can I find out what it means?
A good way to start is by writing it down. Quite often, a dream I've pored over and over in my mind will seem to have no meaning until I take the time to write it down. As I am writing down the dream and looking at the particular words I choose to use, the meaning frequently becomes obvious to me. It is as if some of the words I use pop right out at me with additional meaning.

If after writing a dream down you are still unsure as to it's meaning, pretend you are telling a friend what the dream was about, using just one sentence. This sentence represents the overall theme or plot of the dream, and can be an additional clue as to the meaning of the dream.

For more clues, you may wish to explore the various symbols in the dream. Look at each person, place, or thing in the dream, and think about what it means to you. How would you describe the meaning of that word to someone unfamiliar with it? Keep coming up with more meanings for that symbol until one makes sense to you in the context of your dream, or in the context of something going on in your everyday life.

Many people also find clues by looking at the feelings of the characters in the dream, including yourself, if you are in it. The dream may have a scary plot to it, yet perhaps the characters are calm and relaxed throughout the dream. The feelings of the characters may be even more important than the plot of the actual dream itself.

As you contemplate on the words you've used to record your dream in written form, the one sentence description of your dream, possible meanings for the symbols, and the feelings of the characters in the dream, consider how the dream might relate back to your everyday life. What is it trying to tell you about the events of your life?

I'd like to meet my unborn baby in a dream. How can I do that?
We'll write more extensively about this in our book, but here are a couple of tips to get you started. If you're not already keeping a dream journal, starting one now might be helpful. When you first wake up in the morning, before you even get out of bed, reflect upon what you dreamed during the night. If you don't have time to write the full dream down at that time, at least make a few notes. Then as soon as you can, record your dream in your journal. Getting into the habit of journaling daily will likely aid your dream recall, which is necessary if you're going to remember your dream meetings with your baby. Once you are remembering your dreams at least several nights a week, write a note to your unborn baby and leave it beside your bed (or write the note in your dream journal). You may want to say something like, "Dear Baby, I'd love to meet you in the dream state tonight." If you have a particular question you'd like answered, you can try asking that question too. Then, watch your dreams. Don't give up if it doesn't happen at first. Keep trying!