The other night I had a dream that I had a baby with my ex boyfriend. We are both 18 so we're still young. In my dream, we were no longer in a relationship so we did the typical teen parent thing--meet up someone when handing the baby off.

One summer day we had to meet up to take her to the doctors for an appointment, just something routine that we both wanted to be there for. We were not on good terms and he had custody the night before but we'd sucked it up and drove together since gas is expensive. I was planning on meeting my mom there so she could take me and the baby home after.

When we got there, I got out of the car, went to the back seat to take her car seat with her still in it since she was only about 3 or 4 months old, and he didn't move. He then told me that he did not want me to see my baby after the appointment and that he was taking full custody, and proceeded to drive away.

I walk into the doctors office, a little stunned as to what just happened. I told my mom what happened and she said we'd discuss it later since she didn't want to make a scene in public, plus she seemed reluctant to be there to begin with. I start to smell a dirty diaper, so naturally, I check it. As I stick my finger in to pull the little leg whole to check for poop, the diaper just about leaks everywhere-- it looked like it hadn't been changed in days.

After that I woke up, heartbroken. The weird part about this dream is that it lines up with things that have happened in my life such as about a year ago, the same ex and I had a pregnancy scare. It was negative, but since then the thought have having a baby has seemed wonderful and I can't get it off my mind even though I know I'm too young. Since it was a year ago, the baby would have been about 2 or 3 months old. My ex and I broke up back in November, and have not been on good terms since.

What could this all mean if anything? Sorry for the length, but thanks for the answers!

If you stop and think, that's an amazingly lifelike dream. Having a baby seems "wonderful", but it's not much fun when there's no relationship between the parents and one of them is too stupid or uncaring to check the diaper. Even grandmother acts like she's been dragged into the situation, would really rather be elsewhere.

I don't know that the dream is referring to your real ex and mother, maybe not. It may just be using them as symbols. It's just that you pay a price for that wonder of birth. In fact, you pay it for decades. The message I'm getting just reinforces what you obviously already know: you're not ready yet. Wait til you've got a full-time man who sticks around and some sort of a financial floor under the two of you