Childbed
Childbed often touches the threshold of bringing something new into being — the labour, the vulnerability, the hope of a safe arrival. The dream may ask what you're in the slow process of delivering, what it costs you to bear it, and what tender care the bringing-forth is asking of you now.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for childbed, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of giving child birth, denotes fortunate circumstances and safe delivery of a handsome child.
For an unmarried woman to dream of being in childbed, denotes unhappy changes from honor to evil and low estates.