Baby dreams

For the first time in a long time, I had a baby dream the other night. Weird. I used to have them all the time--especially when I was pregnant {& no, I'm not pregnant}--but it's been years since I dreamed one. Usually they were about my feared inability to care for or even remember the baby.

In one recurring dream, I would suddenly discover that I FORGOT TO FEED THE BABY, EVER, and, apparently, that was a really bad idea. Come to find out, though, babies don't really let you forget to feed them. Whew. (Or as Maddy says, fyoof.)

When I received this week's letter to a parent, I was fascinated to hear that not only was I not alone in the baby dreaming but that dads-to-be also have them. Click on over to read Sugata's wonderful letter about realizing what those fears were all about and how his daughters taught him they were unfounded.
{photo via flickr}

Comments

[Christie]

That's funny you used to dream that. I've never had that one. Fyoof is right.

[Christie]

P.S. Tell your big girls that they completely made my little girl's day when a certain letter arrived in the mail. Hannah STILL talks about them and worships the ground they walk on. Tell them thanks for sending her one back!

[Sarah]

I've had that SAME dream! The one where you realize, in a state of absolute panic, that you have never fed your baby, and it's been a week since they were born? Yeah, it's definitely a scary one. And so REALISTIC...shudder.