Dead baby being delivered

So, I was in a building and some daft stuff happened, and then suddenly I was in charge of saving this woman's life. I had to reach inside her and pull out her unborn baby (I don't know why they didn't just do a C-section). She was dying, I think. My boyfriend was there and he was so scared like he knew this woman and was worried she might die.

I reached inside with my gloved hand, it was warm and then I could feel the baby's feet which were freezing cold (I know, you'd think the uterus would still keep it warm, but dreams are silly like that). The baby was dead. I had to pull it out by the legs. I just remember feeling how cold the feet were and wailing OH NO and just crumbling into a fit of tears, and woke up before I had finished the procedure. I woke up not-crying but I still felt horrible with a lump in my throat.

So far I have only found interpretations involving dead babies and childbirth but nothing about tragic childbirth or being a midwife or doctor delivering the still-born.

The interpretations describe how this could mean the death of a part of yourself. But that is all I have found for dead babies and childbirth and it just does not resonate with me or my life right now.

My life is quite chaotic though at the moment. I have to choose a new university course because I can't continue the current one, meaning I would have to start again from year 1. But I don't feel that this is a death of part of me. That is an old realization. However, I am still trying to find myself so far. I don't really even know who I am yet. So giving background on my life and how it could relate to the dream is very difficult.

I can't help you much with this, but I can tell you what it usually meant for me. I've dreamed of babies in different contexts, but it was always my baby. Perhaps it's significant that it's not you who's giving birth, maybe you're externalizing it for some reason or not wanting to accept it's you? Or of course something else entirely, but I feel babies are a strong symbol.

Interestingly, I have no wish to have a baby or any desires or hopes of that kind. But.. I do have dreams for my future that I'm working hard on making true. So at some point I dreamed that I was pregnant but some man wanted to cut the baby out with a knife. This was after I botched a test and a man told me I wasn't good enough for what I want to do. At another point, I dreamed of seeing a baby that was standing at the doorway, not allowing me to close the door. Then when I went towards it to move it away, it started doing all kinds of acrobatics and showing off muscles, as if to show me that I shouldn't abandon this project and line of development that I'm pursuing. That I'm getting good and strong at it, and not to close the door behind.

I think your dream kind of correlates with what you're going through, although you said it doesn't. Maybe it's not university at all that you want to do next (I'm really just brainstorming here, please don't be offended.). The baby is dying, but you don't feel like it's your baby at all. Maybe it wasn't what you wanted to do in the first place anyway. But you did feel horrible about it, so I don't know. Also you were put in charge of birthing this woman, perhaps whatever task the baby symbolizes was imposed on you? Perhaps feet and cold feet have a significance here, I don't know what it might be. Maybe as simple as the expression "to have cold feet" about something.

That's all I've got. Hope it helps.