Spiritual Pregnancy Dreams

If you've had a pregnancy dream (or any other spiritual pregnancy experience) you'd like to share for the book I'm writing about women's spiritual pregnancy experiences, I'd love to hear about it!

You may send me your story by clicking on the contact me link in my profile or by going directly here. If you need more space to type, feel free to continue in a second (or third!) email.

If I decide to use your story in my book, I'll email you with any further questions I might have, including asking you whether or not you'd like your story to include your first name and location.

I dreamed I was pregnant. Does this mean I'm really pregnant?

I dreamed about my baby's gender last night. Can I rely on this information and start painting the nursery pink (or blue)?


Many women do have dreams that indicate the baby's gender. Of the 61 women completing our first pregnancy survey, 36 of them (59%) reported having a dream about the baby's gender. To read some of their stories, please visit: Dreaming About Your Baby's Gender: Spiritual Pregnancy Stories.

How accurate are women's pregnancy dreams regarding the baby's gender? In a different study published in the September 1999 issue of "Birth," pregnant women who had not found out the gender of their baby via an ultrasound were asked to guess what their unborn baby's gender would be. Of those who were relying on a pregnancy dream for guidance to the question and who also had over 12 years of education, 100% were correct in their guesses. (Granted, this was a very small sample size. Only eight women in their study fit in this category of having over 12 years of education and of relying on a pregnancy dream to predict their baby's gender.) Women with over 12 years of education who were relying on an inner feeling to predict the gender of their baby were accurate 76% of the time. Women with more than a high school education relying on other things besides dreams or inner feelings to help them predict the gender of their babies, as well as women with less than a high school education no matter what they were using to make their predictions, were less likely to be accurate in their guesses.

As mentioned in the question about prophetic dreams above, intuition coupled with one or more dreams provides more assurance than either alone. Catherine's story is an example of this. She not only dreamed about the gender of her first two babies, but also strongly sensed what their gender would be. She was right in each case.

Although the majority of the women I've spoken with gave birth to the same sex baby that they dreamed of, I wouldn't suggest using only the information gained in a dream to paint the baby's nursery, unless you don't mind possibly having to repaint it after the baby's birth! We have heard a few responses of mothers who's babies ended up being the opposite gender from what they dreamed they would be. Interestingly, a few mothers have even reported to us that they dreamed in one pregnancy of a baby they actually had following a subsequent pregnancy.

Also, it appears that in some cases a mother-to-be so strongly wants a baby of a particular gender that it can cloud the accuracy or clarity of her dreams. Terri, for example, already had a boy from a previous pregnancy and was really hoping for a girl from her second pregnancy. During this second pregnancy she had an interesting dream about her unborn baby's gender. In the dream, she and her husband repeatedly told each other quite firmly and with conviction that their second baby would be a boy. Terri emphasized to me how sure she and her husband were in the dream that their second baby would be a boy. Yet, during the same dream, Terri went into labor. The baby of her dreams turned out to be a girl. A few months later, when Terri actually went into labor and delivered, she gave birth to a boy. Perhaps Terri's dream reflected that even though her "dream baby" - the baby she was hoping for - was a girl, she and her husband would in fact be having a boy, as the beginning of the dream had emphasized.

Therefore it's important for those wishing to gather real information about their unborn babies to remain as neutral as possible as to what that information will be. If you are strongly preferring one gender over the other, you may dream about the baby you are hoping for rather than the one you are actually having. Asking God for some confirmation about your dream in the form of a sign, and also relying on your inner senses rather than your desires, may be helpful.

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