Dreaming of giving birth
Meaning and interpretation
What does dreaming of giving birth mean?
Dreaming of giving birth often evokes a project or change coming to fruition: after gestation, birth. It's the moment something you've been carrying becomes real, with all the effort, pain and joy that involves. For pregnant women, these dreams are also a very common way to anticipate the actual birth.
What it's often linked to
Completion. A project, a degree, a decision finally becoming real.
Effort. The hard passage before the result, sometimes dreaded.
Newness. A new stage beginning, with its responsibilities.
Depending on what happens in the dream
An easy birth
Confidence in your ability to see through what you've started.
A painful birth
Fear that the home stretch will be too hard.
Giving birth to an animal or object
A strange but common dream: what you produce surprises or worries you.
Giving birth alone
A feeling of carrying everything without support.
Attending a birth
Witnessing a change in someone close.
Questions to ask yourself when you wake up
A dream's meaning lives in your own context, not in a dictionary. These three questions get you there faster.
- 1
Which project is coming to term right now?
- 2
Do you feel supported in this final stretch?
- 3
Are you afraid of what will come out of this change?
A dream predicts nothing and diagnoses nothing. If a distressing dream keeps coming back and weighs on your days, talk to a health professional.
