Monday, March 21, 2011

nesting?

yesterday i felt what i think may have been the 'nesting' instinct. i felt restless and wanted to get EVERYTHING organized as fast as possible. i spent a few hours doing tons of laundry, dishes, vacuuming, cleaning bathrooms, organizing my recycling bin (weird right?), hemming curtains and packing my hospital bag. i was getting ready to go outside and wash my car when i told myself that this was insane. i haven't cleaned my car by hand in years. steve and i take our car through the car wash when it needs to be cleaned, so this was an odd behaviour for sure. i felt unsettled when i sat on the couch. i knew i needed more stuff for my hospital bag and considered running out and buying everything else that i need. i didn't want to just sit and relax, i wanted to get everything ready. then i started thinking, isn't it too early to be 'nesting'? does this mean that the baby might come early? or was it just a one time thing? today i also feel like getting stuff organized. i feel anxious over not having everything perfect. what is this? did any of you have this during pregnancy? maybe it's not even a pregnancy thing. i am often too quick to blame things on pregnancy, maybe it's just a desire for spring cleaning. i kind of want to clean my blinds right now.

4 comments:

  1. wow - that's a nice feeling to have - you get a lot done! i remember being at home on mat. leave before ben came and wishing things were cleaner but not having enough motivation to get up and do something! by the beginning of june, i cried to tim saying, "our house is too dirty to have a baby come!" so time took a day off of work on my exact due date and did tons of cleaning. i felt so much better. :)

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  2. awwww!!! that is so sweet!! Steve has done lots of cleaning while I have been pregnant, especially when my hip pain was so bad. we have great husbands :D

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  3. that sounds like nesting to me! i wonder if now that you are done work, you are without knowing focusing more on baby coming...maybe before you were just focusing on that last blasted day of work you had to get to.

    as far as baby coming, i dont know if it has anything to do with it...i have been nesting this whole pregnancy..seriously..because i know i will not have alot of time in the last few weeks, like i did with my first two.

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  4. i am not done work yet. i still have 3 weeks to go after spring break. :P but maybe because i am on spring break i have more energy for getting everything prepared.

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