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Can Pregnancy Dreams Predict the Sex of Your Baby?
Many of you know that your dreams during pregnancy can get a little wacky. I forgot about this side effect of pregnancy until I became pregnant for the second time and starting having some really weird dreams – like “a giant spider turns into the kidnapper from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and tries to become my best friend” weird.
I know that hearing about other people’s dreams is not the most exciting thing. I, for one, have been known to sigh and roll my eyes when people ask me if I want to hear about their dreams from the night before. That said, you’ve got to hear about my dreams! I am convinced that my pregnancy dreams have predicted the sex of my babies.
First Pregnancy Dreams
When I was pregnant with my first child, I had very vivid dreams. And in every one of them the baby I was carrying was a boy.
Dream #1: We found out the baby was a boy during the ultrasound. He smiled at us and, surprisingly, had a full mouth of braces.
Dream #2: I bought a bunch of girl clothes before the baby was born. Cut to a year later, my husband is fussing at me for dressing our son in all of the girl clothes.
Dream #3: What we thought was a third leg was actually an abnormally large baby penis. The doctor marveled at its size.
The verdict? When my husband and I went for the anatomy scan, I felt in my heart of hearts that I was carrying a boy. Before the ultrasound tech even announced the sex, I said, “It’s a boy, right?” I honestly felt like my dreams were my subconscious telling me what to expect. My dreams were right. I delivered a little boy in 2013 and there’s lots of things to love about being a boy mom.
Second Pregnancy Dreaming
I am now in the third trimester with my second child. I didn’t dream about the sex of this baby until late into the first trimester.
Dream #1: I was at the hospital walking up and down the hall with my husband a day after giving birth. We were discussing names for the baby. They were all girl names. When we arrived at the nursery to look at our baby, we picked up a beautiful baby girl who smiled up at us with the most jacked up set of teeth we’d ever seen. Then we started wondering if there was such a thing as orthodontists for babies. (What is it with my “babies with braces” dreams???)
Dream #2: In my second dream, I was shopping with my daughter, who just happened to be Madeline from the children’s book series.
So, did my dreams predict the sex of the baby the second time? Yes! A blood test and an ultrasound confirmed that we are expecting a baby girl this fall!
Just Another Old Wives’ Tale?
Maybe this is just a bunch of hogwash. Maybe it is just a coincidence that my dreams were accurate. Or maybe the little babies growing inside of me were telling me something. All I know is that if I get pregnant a third time and my dreams once again predict the sex of the baby, I will be convinced that it is a scientific fact that your dream can predict whether you are having a boy or a girl. And you will not be able to persuade me otherwise.
With my first born I kept praying that I would get a sign of what I was having. Ended up dreaming I was having a boy so I just knew it was and at my ultrasound it confirmed I was having a boy. With my second I wanted a girl so badly and was hoping I would have another dream and I did… of a baby boy and had my ultrasound a few weeks later and it was confirmed a baby boy! Now I am pregnant with my third baby and have had dreams of a baby girl. I find out Thursday and I’m really hoping I’m right! I will update when I find out ????
My dream was correct, we are having a little girl!
I had a dream I was holding a boy with hair like mine who looked like my boyfriend. I have a while to find out what I’m having.
I had a dream of a baby boy the night before I took my pregnancy test. I remember holding a baby boy dressed in all blue and it looked exactly like my husband. I went to sneak peak at 18w and we wanted the gender to be a surprise still but the 3D image we seen our baby favors our husband so much! So I got that part correct. I find out Sunday and I’m so nervous!
This is my first pregnancy. I’ve had 4 dreams of having a baby boy, and not a single one of a little girl (I’m 9 weeks along at the moment). My last dream was so realistic I got to actually see the little boy and actually named it something I never thought of. I woke up and told my husband and that name is now the one that is chosen if it turns out to be a boy.
With my first i had a dream i gave birth in a water birth with a beautiful girl.
I gave birth to a boy in 2019.
This time baby number two. I have two dream #1 was i had a girl she was 3 week old and my Husband die. 🙁
#2 i had dream of getting the ultrasound and its a girl.
Sooo maybe its a boy. I and leaning towards a boy. I have an ultrasound in a couple of weeks to find out!.
Omg !!! That’s scary !!! I pray all is well !!!
I never had dreams with my oldest two (boys). But I did have two dreams last night that our third baby is a girl! We actually find out today!!
Soon before the ultrasound, I had dreamed I was walking in the lot that was between my mom’s house and my aunt’s house. On my hip I was carrying this toddler who was a blond headed blue eyed boy. We found out I was having a boy and he turned out to be a blind hair blue eyed boy. 🙂
I didn’t have dreams of the sex of the baby with my 2 older kids but my 2 younger ones I did. The child I had back in 2018 I had dreams of a curly head little girl I never saw her face she was always turned away from me. Didn’t dream about a boy it was just a little girl. With this child I’m 20w along and have only been dreaming about a little chunky baby with a blue all in one on. But he’s always turned away I never see his face. I had an ultrasound on Friday sure nuff it’s was a boy. Didn’t have one dream about a girl this time around. It’s weird because I’m like are you trying to let me know what to expect or something lol😄. Also I never told ppl until I found out for sure as to not jinx it, then I tell them about my dreams.
I had a dream of a blonde, curly haired little girl lying in the crib in what was her nursery (but was the office at the time; pre-baby). Cut to 11/3/18 and we were blessed with a blonde, curly haired little girl!!
I’ve had dreams of friends having girls or boys and I’ve always been right. It’s eerie. My brother and sister in law just had a little girl that I saw a week before the gender reveal in a dream! She’s earth side and the best niece ever.
I’m pregnant with our second one and no dreams yet! I have a feeling it’s a boy, but we’ll see!!
I am not pregnant (that I know of anyways) and I have dreams every so often out of nowhere the first couple ones I was just finding out I was pregnant but the one last night was very vivid and it was at my supposed gender reveal and all I can really remember was everyone screaming “it’s a boy!” And me and my boyfriend were hugging and crying.. not sure why I keep having dreams like this but my bestfriend said she had a dream two nights ago that I was pregnant with a boy..