From: carljones@usadatanet.net   
      
    Pregnancy ESP Dreams   
      
    Briana, a first-time mother living in New Jersey, woke terrified from a   
   vivid nightmare that had a strangely real quality different from normal   
   dreams. She dreamed her baby was being strangled by a snake. Terrified, she   
   consulted her physician to see if her baby was healthy. An ultrasound   
   revealed that the baby was, in fact, being asphyxiated by the umbilical   
   cord. An emergency cesarean was immediately performed. Brianna gave birth to   
   a healthy baby boy. Paying attention to her extrasensory dream saved her   
   son's life.   
      
    Three types of extrasensory are common during pregnancy. These are:   
      
    * Announcing Dreams – dreams which reveal the baby's gender and other   
   characteristics. For example, Sheryl, a nurse in Michigan, recalls: “I   
   dreamed of rocking a young boy with blond hair two weeks after learning I   
   was pregnant.” Months later she gave birth to a seven pound eight ounce boy   
   with blond hair.   
      
    * Naming Dreams – dreams which reveal information about the unborn child   
   after the baby appears to announce his or her name to the mother, father, or   
   other family member. For example, Linda, a first-time mother living in   
   Boston, experienced a naming dream. “A few weeks before the birth I dreamed   
   of my baby who, in the dream, was approximately a year old. The baby said   
   her name was Hannah and I had a very clear visual picture of her. I did give   
   birth to a girl and named her Hannah. At one year of age she was exactly as   
   the child in my dream.”   
      
    *  Precognitive Dreams – which reveal information about future events. For   
   example, Angela, a mother of one living in Seattle, Washington, dreamed that   
   her baby had a heart defect. “I awoke, sitting bolt upright,” Angela   
   recalls. “I usually don't remember my nightmares but this dream was   
   different. It had a strangely real, vivid quality. I've never forgotten that   
   dream.”  The baby, Alexandra, was born two months later. “She seemed   
   perfectly healthy,“ Angela says. “But at her six-week check up, the doctor   
   said he heard a heart murmur. He diagnosed an atrial septal defect. The   
   cardiologist confirmed the diagnosis with an ultrasound.”   
      
    The mother may have extrasensory dreams about persons or things unconnected   
   to her baby. For example, Leah, an elementary school teacher and mother of   
   two in New Orleans, recalls, “During my pregnancy I had the most vivid   
   dreams I've ever had in my life. Some of them were clairvoyant. In one   
   dream, another teacher came up to me at lunch and said, 'Guess what. I'm six   
   weeks pregnant!' The next day at lunch I told my colleague about my dream.   
   She got the strangest expression on her face and asked me if I were talking   
   to her husband. I told her I didn't even know her husband. It turned out   
   that she was six weeks' pregnant and hadn't told anyone except her husband.”   
      
    Recurring dream symbols are also common during the life-creating months.   
   For example, dreams of vessels – from caves to washing machines – often   
   symbolize the womb for the expectant father as well as the mother. Small   
   animals may symbolize the growing child in early pregnancy. For instance,   
   Kim, a North Carolina mother, had a dream of a small puppy, giving her   
   accurate information about her unborn child. “The dream was very vivid and   
   had a weird feeling to it,” Kim recalls. “It was about a boy puppy. The   
   puppy coughed up a splotch of thin, brownish fluid. The  next day I had a   
   strange, brownish discharge that was the exact shape of the splotch of fluid   
   the puppy coughed up during my dream! Later when tests confirmed my   
   pregnancy. I knew, from the dream, that my baby was a boy.  I never tried to   
   think of girls' names and when stocking the nursery, I didn't hesitate to   
   buy boys' stuff.” Kim gave birth to a healthy baby boy.   
      
    Clinical psychologist Patricia Maybruck, Ph.D., studied 1,048 dreams from   
   67 mothers. She found that  a full six percent of them were paranormal   
   dreams. “Obstetricians should pay more attention to expectant mother's   
   dreams and give them nonjudgmental attention,” Dr. Maybruck suggests. “The   
   pregnant woman's occasional psychic dreams may serve as useful warnings,   
   indicating undetected complications. Therefore they may have significant   
   value as diagnostic tools.”   
      
    Paying attention to paranormal dreams can often resolve pregnancy or   
   childbirth complications. For example, Adrienne, a first time mother who   
   lives in a suburb of New York City, had the most unforgettable dream of her   
   life. "I dreamed that both my girls were developing in the same sac yet had   
   one placenta," Adrienne recalls. Later an ultrasound confirmed this. Such a   
   detailed description is nothing short of paranormal, since twins can have   
   separate placentas and develop in separate amniotic sacs.   
      
    But that was only part of the dream. "I dreamed my unborn girls were crying   
   out to me. They were telling me they had to be born immediately. A few days   
   later, I went into premature labor." Adrienne's physician responded as most   
   physicians would. Without hesitation, he prescribed tocolytic drugs - in   
   other words, medication to stop labor. Yet Adrienne felt her intuition so   
   strongly she refused.   
      
    Failure to give tocolytic drugs might very well have caused the death of   
   the twins. Her physician made her sign a release stating that she was making   
   a choice against medical advice. Adrienne says, "There was no question - not   
   even a doubt that my children had to be born immediately."   
      
    The thoroughly perplexed physician visited Adrienne a few hours after her   
   premature birth. He had just discovered something he'll no doubt remember   
   for the rest of his life. Adrienne's twins were severely anemic. In addition   
   they were suffering an extremely rare disorder known as twin-to-twin   
   transfusion syndrome resulting in progressive blood loss.   
      
    "I don't know how you knew," the physician admitted to the new mother. "But   
   had we stopped your labor, you would have lost your beautiful baby girls."   
      
    Many expectant mothers have nightmares. For example, Starr an eighteen-year   
   old mother, recalls, “I dreamed my baby had the face of an old man, with   
   fangs coming out of his mouth.” Starr gave birth to a normal, healthy child   
   as do most mothers who experience terrible nightmares.   
      
    A tribe in Malaysia called the Senoi have a wonderful way of handling   
   nightmares. They ask the dreamer to attempt to dream the frightening   
   nightmare and recreate the scene. .   
      
    Interesting to explore during pregnancy is the fascinating world of dream   
      
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