{"id":34825,"date":"2025-07-30T16:44:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/dream_dictionary\/birthing\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T15:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:05:08","slug":"birthing","status":"publish","type":"dream_dictionary","link":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/dream_dictionary\/birthing\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are not pregnant (or cannot be for whatever reason, including being male), giving birth in a dream is a frequent metaphor for bringing to life a goal (such as a new career or a romantic relationship) or project (personal or professional) in your waking life. Dreams of <strong>abortion<\/strong> reflect feelings of wanting to &#8220;end&#8221; or &#8220;terminate&#8221; an unrealized goal, project or relationship in your life. If you are <strong>stuck in labor<\/strong> in your dream, think about the goal you&#8217;re &#8220;laboring&#8221; to achieve. If your baby is <strong>stillborn<\/strong>, dies or has <strong>birth defects<\/strong>, think about goals or romantic relationships that you held high hopes for but which now seem to be dead or diseased. Dreams of <strong>miscarriage<\/strong> reflect doubts about a developing project or relationship. Dreams of a <strong>premature birth<\/strong> reflect concerns that the &#8220;baby&#8221; will come too soon, and you won&#8217;t be prepared. Dreams of <strong>dying during birth<\/strong> symbolize an inner metamorphosis and an evolution of development; old ways of perceiving are passing away; new self-discoveries are being made. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related Dream Symbols<\/strong><\/em><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/dream_dictionary\/baby\/\" id=\"121\" option=\"com_dreams\">baby<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/dream_dictionary\/birth\/\" id=\"197\" option=\"com_dreams\">birth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are not pregnant (or cannot be for whatever reason, including being male), giving birth in a dream is a frequent metaphor for bringing to life a goal (such as a new career or a romantic relationship) or project (personal or professional) in your waking life. Dreams of abortion reflect feelings of wanting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2646,2647,2648,2649,2650,2651,2652],"class_list":["post-34825","dream_dictionary","type-dream_dictionary","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion","tag-birth-defects","tag-dying-in-childbirth","tag-giving-birth","tag-miscarriage","tag-stillborn","tag-stuck-in-labor"],"acf":{"keywords":null,"alias":"","dictionary_id":"200","video_audio_url":null,"dictionary_audio_files":null,"dictionary_video_files":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dream_dictionary\/34825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dream_dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dream_dictionary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dream_dictionary\/34825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39118,"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dream_dictionary\/34825\/revisions\/39118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}