This entry is specifically about your own body appearing pregnant in a dream when you aren't actually expecting, or when the dream isn't functioning as a taemong (conception dream) about a real coming child — a related but genuinely distinct reading from both of those, covered in their own articles on this site.
Read this way, pregnancy in the dream represents something new developing inside you that isn't ready to be revealed yet — a creative project, personal growth, or an ambition that's real and progressing, but still private, even from yourself in some cases.
A visibly growing belly is read as a plan or ambition steadily developing on its own timeline, whether or not you're consciously tracking its progress day to day. Discomfort, fear, or ambivalence about the pregnancy within the dream is read as real anxiety about a responsibility you're not fully sure you're ready to carry, worth taking seriously as an honest signal rather than dismissing.
Giving birth within this reading — as opposed to the specific symbol-receiving moment described in the taemong tradition — is read as the culmination of a long personal effort finally arriving and becoming real, a satisfying close to whatever the dream had been building toward.