Did you know your baby before you conceived?

Has anyone ever got a strong feeling before they conceived like they knew they were going to conceive soon or knew it was going to be a boy/girl, or felt a connection to their baby before it was even conceived or born?

In some traditions it's believed the baby's spirit is picked out before conception. And I think I've heard someone say that they knew they were going to conceive a boy the cycle they conceived but can't remember who it was.

It would be very interesting to know so share your experiences!!

Hi SaraJane!

I beleive i felt the spirits of my babies while pregnant, but not so much before conception.

As i lost both my angel babies, i beleive i also felt those spirits fade away and return from time to time.... and this pregnancy feels very similar to my first, and i beleive i am going to have a baby boy... we will have to wait and see!!!

SB

I hope it means you're getting your BFP soon Sara :hug:

i knew id conceived right away..... we weren't trying, but the next day i just knew.... i did a pregnancy test just days later and it came up positive, i was about a week shy of expecting AF... it was a huge shock but at the same time it wasn't, because i knew all along, if that makes sense.

about three weeks before i went into labour, i had the most vivid dream i was holding my baby, and she was a girl, she had brown hair and the most amazing big blue eyes... she wasn't a newborn in the dream, more like about a 10 month old in the face.... everyone had thought i was having a boy but after that dream i told my partner we were having a girl, because i met her in my dream last night and i described the way she looked.... the spooky thing is, my dd looks IDENTICAL to the baby i dreamed of, it was her i dreamt of, the only difference was her hair was longer in my dream, whereas my dd's hair has taken a while to grow, but the big amazing blue eyes, she has them. everyone comments on her eyes.

I'm not sure about before conception, but my DH would only ever really talk about a girl...he was going to build her a billy cart and let her help fix the EH etc etc.

Just after I found out, he didn't know how desperatley I wanted a girl as I had never told a soul, and went to pick up some groceries. He came home with a pink newborn dummy. I know in your heart you want a girl, and it's going to be one he said as he handed over the dummy. That dummy sat on the microwave the whole pregnancy. I was 100%positive Darcy was going to be a boy.....well she's not, but I wish I knew what he knew...

I dreamt of both my daughter and son the night before I got my :bfp: with Jack I knew we were having a boy right fromt hat moment he is earily similiar to the boy in my dream, as for Katy I will never know what she may have looked like but I still dream of that same little girl she was never a baby in my dreams always a little girl of 2 or 3 it makes me smile to think I know what she would have looked like even though she is not here

Rach, i often dream of my angel girl Zahra, and she is the same, never a baby, always a little girl in a white dress with a pink sash..

And kim, my hubby has predicted 100% so far with absolute belief, he said he just knew. He predicts boy this time!!

I dreamt of my son while I was prg but not before. I was holding a baby boy with lots of dark hair. When he was about to be born and I was pushing I said to him (not out loud) "I know you're my baby boy". Sure enough a few minutes later, he came out, full head of dark hair, which turned out to be curly and everyone who sees him comments on it! I just had this sense of "yep, there you are, I've known you all along". I had the same sense when my daughter was born, but not as strong.

I cannot explain why but I am certain the baby we lost was a little girl. I feel more convinced of that now than ever.

I've often dreamt of a baby boy.... different dreams but the baby has always been a BOY! so it will be interesting to see if we have a boy or not.... :)

Wow these stories are great, giving me goosebumps!!

Nope. :) I felt really disconnected to River before he was born, I just have a hard time realising baby in tummy = baby outside. If that makes sense. Many times I didn't even feel pregnant. I really worried about that, that I wouldn't bond, but then he was born, and we connected straight away, so I had nothing to worry about! :D

Having said that, we had a boys name since before he was conceived, and hadn't settled on a girl's name entirely, and I'd bought mostly blue and green stuff (but perhaps that's because green's my fave colour, and I really didn't want a pink little girl - it just wasn't my thing).

I think I believe in life/personality at conception, I just wasn't aware of Riv's til he was born really.

This one - well, it's hard to know. I think I don't want to guess, because I don't want to put bub in a 'box' - my MIL does that - x is the sporty one, y is the smart one, z is the musical one...
I'll just wait til I meet bub, and let their personality speak for itself. So, while I don't feel super connected now, my experience with Riv's told me it'll probably be fine once bub's born. :)

Wow this is interesting!

Well I haven't had a baby YET but last month I had a VERY vivid dream that I had twin girls with huge brown/hazel eyes, not identical, they were probably 6 - 9 months old and I conceived by being on top... time will tell if this comes true!

The other night I dreamt that I had a + ve pregnancy test but was spotting so I took another one which was also +ve and very strong. I'm spotting now but am sure that AF is coming tomorrow. Oh and I usually dream about AF coming a week or so before she does! It's amazing how in tune we are to our bodies.

Hi Sara!

I thought I was having a girl as soon as I knew I was pg. Even before finding out the sex at 18 weeks, i had only bought girls clothes and everything was pink! Even before I did the hpt I felt I was pg and just kind of knew... So i believe you can have a connection like that with your baby :D

Yes,
I am totally sure that when i next fall its a girl. I'm always having spooky things happen. I have dreams of a newborn baby girl suckling at my breast.Or being pregnant and watching the ultrasound to be told its a girl and when i wake up in the morning i'm devestated as there is no baby in my arms or in my belly. I'm only attracted to girls names;almost feel its uneccesary to look at boys names and cant stop myself looking at newborn little girly clothes.

well my mum knew before i told her. i rang her and she said 'are you pregnant?' i said yes i was!!! i couldnt belive it. she told me she was at work and just in the middle of doing her job turned to my dad (they work together) and said 'holly is pregnant and she hasnt bloody told me yet'. how wierd is that?!?? especially cause no one knew i was off the pill and trying. i also knew my DD would be a girl from early on. i had to find out at the 18 week scan because i didnt want to be bonding with the girl that i knew i would have and then on the off chance it turn out to be a boy at birth.. i think that would have really thrown me. oh and a few weeks before she was born i gues si was getting a little stressy, but i had a dream where i was holding her and i rubbed my lips across the babys head and it was all soft and warm and i knew everything would be ok! :-)

Wow, these stories are amazing. It's funny how we have senses we don't even know about and that science hasn't been able to explain. Really interesting, keep them coming!

I didn't dream of my own daughter ... BUT I did have a dream about my nephew when my older sister was pregnant with him.

I described his colouring & looks (coppery brown hair & big brown eyes, but his facial features looking like me). He turned out to be exactly that !!

... Everyone thought that was funny until he was born & especially when He started looking the spitting image of myself as a toddler ... Everyone was amazed.

By the way, my sister is a brunette with hazel eyes.

Though now at 12 he looks more like more sister's facial features, LOL

i had a dream when i was preg with my first angel... i dreamt that i had a baby in a baby carrier thing and a friend and myself took him into a forest and sat him in an abondoned bus next to another baby in another baby carrier (a girl) and left them there, as we walked away i didnt feel like i was abandoning the baby, just leaving them there together for a while, i lost my little boy, and then afterwards i lost a little girl, i am preg again and i have ALWAYS wanted twins a boy and a girl(since i was a kid), my mum thinks i am preg with twins now, but i have had one scan and there was only one bub, but she is still convinced one is hiding in there somewhere!!! We will have to wait and see!!

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.

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

:)

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

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!!

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.

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!!

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!!!!!

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!!

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.

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...

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

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?!

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.

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!

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

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 :D

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.

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!