My self control is completely gone. I am in nesting mode 24/7 now. When I'm too tired to clean or organize something, I'm thinking about cleaning and organizing. I have been nesting big time since my 2nd trimester since I am super excited (and also because I am kind of scared of birth and this is something I can control and use to distract myself from fear) but in the last few days I have been really out of control. I am compulsively doing stuff. Like this morning I woke up at 3:30 am and felt like I HAD to cook. I have been cleaning everything that will hold still and cooking constantly. I have washed and folded and hung up all her baby clothes, and then refolded and reorganized her dresser several times. I also have a pile of clothes and accessories for her first pictures and to bring her home from the hospital that I keep going through. I still haven't decided what I want to dress her in to leave the hospital or have her first photos in.
Is anyone else doing this? Does it feel like an uncontrollable urge to you? Also I'd like to know from anyone who has been through this before, how long before your labor started did you start feeling the incredible urge to nest, nest, nest? I know I shouldn't be thinking about labor yet because its too early but I am SO ready, and any signs of getting closer would be nice!
Re: Nesting Like Crazy
About a week ago, I woke up at 5:30 in the morning and was literally on my hands and knees scrubbing the kitchen floor. The mister thought I lost my ***... he walked into the kitchen and was like "what the hell are you doing"?
I'm naturally one of those people where "everything has it's place" but now it's just times 10000.
lol me too! I am a super perfectionist when it comes to cleaning and organization, and it drives DH up the wall sometimes. The other morning he woke up and came into the kitchen and I was under the sink re-organizing all our cleaning products and scrubbing the cabinet out. Then yesterday morning when he woke up I had re-organized more cabinets and stuff and he goes, "Sweetie you are running circles around me!" So funny!
Big brother Luke
Little brother Zachary
I could have written this post. Except my floor cleaning episode happened last week, at 10:30 at night when I went down stairs to get something to drink. I dropped a piece of ice on the floor, saw a tiny spot and then decided to clean the entire floor. DH came down looking for me, worried I was sick or something, because I told him I would be "right back".
Needless to say, I am not "allowed" to go to the kitchen at night unattended :-)
Ha. Me too.
I had some energy to burn last night, so I washed down all the walls in my living room. I also cleaned all the mirrors, windows, and pictures (glass) in the living room and swept the floor. Before all that I went outside and swept off my front porch.
It sure feels good to get stuff accomplished and clean!
This. I was a CRAZY nesting woman from like 30-35 weeks. Then it kind of tapered off. I still get uncontrollable urges here and there, but our baby's room is finished and there really isn't anything left to do but clean. Which I do a lot.
It's soo weird feeling like you're out of control in this way though! My husband did not understand at all why I would wake up at 2am and need to clean/organize/etc.
My life is one big NEST! I'm going overboard bigtime. I just need to put my feet up and relax, but I find it impossible most of the time until my ankles swell and I am forced to stop what I'm doing. I have waited too long on some things so now I'm in hypermode. This is me today:
my nursery progress
my nursery progress
I've already got a list for the rest of this week, but I took a break from cleaing today because I went fabric shopping for some sewing projects!