Stillborn
A stillborn infant is a heavy image, and the dream often touches grief — a hope or beginning that didn't draw its first breath. The dream may ask where something you'd nurtured toward life has been lost before it could grow, and whether a tender sorrow over what never got its chance is asking, gently, to be acknowledged.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for stillborn, 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 a stillborn infant, denotes that some distressing incident will come before your notice.
Fontaine, 1862
If a woman dreams that she gives birth to a stillborn child, it foretells that her next child will be an uncommon bright one: a childless woman who dreams this, will realize her fondest hopes.