Did you know your baby before you conceived?

[bellelass]

I had a dream almost three years ago about a baby girl, and that the father was my then on the other side of the world friend Steve. I wrote to him about it, since the dream was so striking and she was just like him- curly dark hair, big sparkling brown eyes, and such a delicious laugh. I forgot about it, our relationship deepened, I moved out here and got pg. A few months ago before we knew the sex I remembered the dream, did some digging and found the letter I'd written him about it. Wouldn't you know I had the dream three years exactly before her due date? I was kind of freaked out by the dates correlation, then a few days later they told us we were having a girl (dh had been certain of a girl all along). If she's born on April 11 and heavily favors her father... well.. I just don't know....

My (estranged) mother has always known what's going on with me before I tell her. Its weird.

[SamiH]

With my daughter, I was fairly confident of a girl.

This time around - ok I will spill weirdo feelings LOL. jan was first month of TTC after m/c last year. I was so certain I had conceived, and I still feel confident bubs is a boy. I 'knew' before I was preggers, and I think that is why I had the patience to wait until my AF was actually due until testing, and then waited until late afternoon too. felt like I didn't need the test to confirm, but of course knew I had too.

I have a really good feeling this time that everything will be ok, of course still anxious with each milestone - today being another one - 5 weeks now instead of 4 LOL

[Mel A]

Hey, I'm 8 weeks and I just know that it is a girl. I've always know my first would be a girl and that her name would be Charlotte. Hubby and I, discussed and aggreed on the name, we told no one. Then Yesterday my rekki master told me she knows that the baby is a girl, and not just any girl but hubby's daughter from a past life. The story goes that hubby died early in the past life and never got to know his daughter, she wasn't happy with that and has decided to come back and give it another try. I thought that was pretty freaky! Then to top it off, she said that the baby spirit was really happy with the name Charlotte. So.... I have, at 8 weeks. A strong spirted baby with firm Ideas of what she like and dislikes. Including her name. I
ll have tp wait till September to see if it is true but very wierd none the less.

To answer your question, I think it is very very possible. So go with your gut and have a fantastic time....
Mel

[~StarBright~]

wow Mel, i have too been told by a reiki master that she knows who i am carrying, a little boy who is both mine and dh's son from a previous life!! i only have to wait till august, (or the 18week scan to check the sex) but i will let you know!!

[tan32]

I knew with my first that i was pregnant and i had a strong feeling she was a girl, only had a girl named picked out etc, with my second again i felt pregnant straight away and this time i had the feeling it was a boy and had decieded on his name before i had a +ve result.
This time around someone actually asked me if i was pregnant , i told them no, then did a test the next day only to find out i was, with this one i found out alot later then with my other two and I have no idea what this baby is going to be.
We had been ttc for 3 years , the due date of this bub is exactly a yr after my grandad passed. So Im sure him and my Nan had something to do with this, when i went to visit my nan in a nursing home with DD and DS she asked me were my baby was, i told her DS was here, she said no the other one , she insisted I had three children, sadly my Nan passed 3 weeks after. I wonder if she knew something i didnt as at the time DS was under 8 months and we hadnt considered having anymore children.

[Heaven]

Wow, these stories are great.
I remember someone saying in a thread once that about a month before they got pregnant they knew that this was the cycle they were going to get pregnant and that it was going to be a boy. I wish I could remember who it was and where I read it. Would love to hear that story again too!!

[Indadhanu]

I didn't know before conception... but the day after the IUI I felt a weird energy feeling, and Shel felt it too when she rubbed my tummy! I wrote a post about it in my blog... and then all throught that TWW I was sure I could feel something... I just knew...

I'm sure it is a girl as well, I have thought so since I could feel the energy. Will let you know mid-March!!!!!

[DANNIIM]

Some freaky things happen in this world! I see a Kinesiologist and she has some really weird things to tell you..after i saw her she said i had really good intuition and i wasn't entirely sure what she meant but towards the end of the session (all of 8hrs) i got to realise what she meant, i have energy that i can feel things...you just have to beleive in yourself and it will come to you. She told me that in my past life that i was a lady...which was nice to hear and that i was responsible for alot of people and something happened about a payoff...still not quite sure what she meant by that...but hows this, it was 800yrs ago, imagine living 800yrs ago. SHe said if i ever have the opportunity to see a past life regressionist to go for it, but i don't think i am ready to do something like that!
While i am in Brisbane in a months time i really want to see someone that can reassure me that i will have another baby...hopefully soon. I just feel i need this right now..it might help with my stress levels and make me settle down a little. I really hope that doesn't sound to desperate. SO if any of you ladies knows someone in southeast QLD that does this kind of thing....i will be forever grateful!!

[Loqua]

Some really great stories, here.

DH and I are a way off TTC yet, but we both feel that we already know our first. Our relationship seems to be a little like that, though. I also had a psychic reading done about a year ago, so it will be interesting when the time comes to see how it all pans out.

[Helly]

Well, my friend who just had a sweet baby girl, had a very vivid dream that she had a little girl with blue eyes and black hair, and her DH had the exact same dream - and that's what Lyra looks like! hee hee...

This same friend's DH looked at me when I first told him that we were pregnant and very seriously said, "It's twins." I laughed at the time, so did Tim. Thing is, when I ask DH what he thinks it is, he's convinced it's a girl, but I'm convinced it's a boy! So WTF.... are we really having fraternal twins??? I wonder, eh...

[~StarBright~]

Ohh Helly, when is your first scan? That would be soooo freaky and cool if it was fraternal twins!! wow!!!

[Lucy]

Not with Olivia or Lexie, but certainly with Charlie.

I have always had an "image" in my mind of what my son would look like and be like.....and as soon as I found out I was having a boy, I was so excited to think I was finally going to meet this little boy who I already felt like I totally "knew".

He is now 2, and I swear, he is EXACTLY like all my preconceived impressions of what he would be like. Even his sticky up hair is how I "saw" him in my head, way way before he was even conceived.

Olivia and Lexie however........I reckon they chose me. They are nothing like I ever envisaged my daughters to be like! Love them more than life itself, but how did I score such gorgeous girls?!

[Karina]

When I conceived, I had a wierd feeling that that would be "the month". I had a dream that I was pregnant - in my dream I was very pregnant so I thought it might be a sign, or maybe just that I had pregnancy on my mind! I found out I was pregnant about 2-3 weeks later. At the beginning of my pregnancy, my husband said he thought we would have a girl. I felt like I was carrying a girl too and I would talk about "her", but as we opted not to find out the sex at untrasound, I told everyone I had no feelings either way so I didnt look like a total doofus when if I were to pop a boy out. We have a girl. I just never had any boy feelings, but I didnt mind either way whether it was boy or girl. I also had another dream - i think at around 30 weeks pregnant - that I gave birth to a girl.

[Helly]

StarBright - I haven't decided yet, but I'm going to be burning with curiosity until I do! I had two very significant drops within a day or so of each other, the first which I was sure was implantation, and the second which was...??? Eee!

[diva det]

i knew i was having b/g twins since i was 13 years old
we didn't know what sex our bubbas would be, but i knew what they would be
i also believe that i am meant to have another boy as well - so time will tell
so yes i knew my children well before they were born and used to feel them around me for a long time beforehand as well

odette

[Baileys_mum]

Hi,
My name is Jess and I got pregnant by accident and even though at the time everything seemed all wrong... my life was totally upside down, I wasnt in a relationship with the father and he didnt want me to have the baby since he was only 19. I struggled with this cos I was 28 and he had told me he was 21 but I just had this overwhelming feeling that this baby was meant to be.

I hid it from my family for 7 weeks cos my sister was pregnant and I felt awkward.
One night after i finished work at 1am my mother who lived across the street knocked on my door and said "are you pregnant?"
I was shocked. I said "why would u ask me something like that?"
she said "because i wrote it in my automatic writing" (she does that very rarely where she holds a pen and her "spirit guide" or whatever it is writes stuff.

I was still trying to fight the feelings I had because I was scared to bring a baby into my life without a father to love .
I went to get an ultrasound at 12 weeks and just as the sonographer had finished taking the measurements and was pointing out where the head and where the arms were. The baby started kicking and waving frantically, just out of the blue. It made me smile, it was only 5cms long. That was it for me I definately couldnt hurt my little one especially after it made me smile.

After the ultrasound I felt so strongly it was a boy which was weird cos initially I thought it would be nice to have a girl.
I dreamt of a wolf when I was having all the crazy pregnancy dreams and my korean friend said that in his culture it meant I was having a boy because different animals represent different genders.
I also dreamt of my little boy talking to me. In my dream I said "quick tell me what I should call you before I wake up" and he said "i dont know ...winnie the pooh?"
In my dream he had the most beautiful gentle eyes I had ever seen and I felt that he had an amazing soul
I felt so connected to him and found out on the 20 week ultrasound that I was indeed having a boy and he looks just as I pictured him.
Before he was born I asked for a sign that he was meant to be here because his father was so horrible to me and I felt so down.

When my little boy whom I named Bailey was 2 weeks old I used myspace to find the fathers brother, who as it turns out didnt know anything about me or the baby but had the same birthday as Bailey, then to make things even more spooky the fathers mums maiden name is Bailey, the same name that I chose for my little boy. I couldnt believe it
To me this is a sign that my beautiful little boy was meant to be here. My mum said that his spirit chose me to be his mum, I dont know why he chose me but Im glad and I beleive that with all my heart because I felt him there and Im so happy. Even if I was given a time machine. I wouldnt change a single thing

[danniellabella]

I had a strong feeling in the week or 2 between conception and a positive test that I was pregnant. So strong a feeling that about an hour before I did a test I almost bought a blue jump suit and was dreaming I had a son. Will find out if it's a boy or girl shortly I guess.

[~mamaspice~]

SaraJane, I pretty much knew straight away. On the day that our bub was conceived I said to my husband, do you want to make a baby today, and low and behold we did. I couldn't shake the feeling that I was pregnant even though my first 4 pregnancy tests were negative. Then, the day after my period would have been due I had a dream that I was in labour and my waters had broken - it was so vivid that I actually woke up thinking I'd wet the bed! The dream prompted me to do another test and it was positive!