First (happy) Pregnancy Dream

Last night I had an amazingly realistic dream about delivering my baby. It was during the day, my water broke at a trickle and I had my toddler with me. He played in his room, I called my husband, our friend who is going to attend, and my midwife. I drew a bath for a water birth and got in. In my dream I had one massive contraction and then I felt the head. My midwife arrived just in time to deliver my daughter. The whole thing was less than an hour (and was way cleaner than I could ever hope it could be). It was a FANTASTIC dream. The only thing wrong was that my husband couldn't make it home in time.

To analyze the dream: My son's labor and delivery took about four hours, so there's a good possibility that #2 could pop out even faster. My biggest fear is that it will happen during the day and nobody will be able to get here in time. I really don't want my less-than-two-year-old being the only one who assists. We only have one car and my husband takes public transportation to work, so him getting home to me could be an issue. Fortunately, our friend who will attend works in the same building as he does, so they could always take a cab to her place (ten minutes) and then she could drive him. I'm really hoping that he'll be able to work from home the last week or two before I deliver, but that assumes I'll be close to the due date, and I'm quite happy to be a little early. With my first child, my husband was a twelve minute cab ride from my office and the birth center was fifteen minutes from there, so it was less of an issue if I had a daytime labor (which, by the way, is not usual, particularly for a first birth). The second part of that is worry about the midwife making it in time. I will be having several discussions about that beforehand since I barely made it to the Birth Center last time.

Overall, I'm pretty confidant with how labor will turn out. It helps that I had one easy one already, and I try to keep worries at bay. But since all of my previous pregnancy dreams had been about miscarriage, it's nice to finally have a good one. Weird dreams are normal during pregnancy, I just hope they continue along this vein from now on.