Is anyone else suffering from nesting instincts? I'm not sure if it's hormonal or just completely psychotic, but it's been forcibly displacing my brain. Going to my parents' house and my grandparents' house just throws into sharp relief how much I hate our apartment and don't want to raise a baby here. I don't know why the hell I'm even upset, our lease ends 2.5 months after the baby is born. We're not here forever.

I even started crying last night, which is really unlike me. I think it freaked my husband out, and he looked really frustrated because all I can talk about is houses and furniture we can't afford until I find a job. It makes him feel bad for not being able to provide (which he is, when I'm not a psycho)

IS THERE A CURE FOR THIS?!?!

My husband's daddy book (So you're going to be a dad; peter downey) says this about nesting urge: (this book is hilarious and I suggest it for your OH/DHes and to read yourself)

"Science tells us that all birds have a nesting urge. In the period before they lay their eggs, they go into a frenzy of nest-making. This is due to the fact that when the eggs finally emerge, the mother wants to stay somewhere warm and safe until the chicks hatch.

All birds get the nesting urge.
All pregnant women get the nesting urge.

Now, your wife won't be up a tree making a little basket out of twigs, cotton and mud, I hope, but the nesting urge will definitely manifest itself in its own cute way.

It's some kind of biological thing. In a woman's brains, just under the hypothalamus, there is a small gland that secretes nesting urge hormone. When this gland starts operating, you will notice some changes in your wife, such as an absence of logic, no concept of reason, and a strong desire to make major architectural changes to the infrastructure of your home."

Hello

Welcome to Baby and Bump!

Congratulations on your pregnancy.




Hormones......you have to learn to be best friends



Impossible!!!!


The book sounds good!

Welcome to the forum, I have become best friends with my hormones lately, trust me its nothing unusual that you are experiencing

you are completely normal, pmsl!!!

you just wait till you get to 3rd tri, they really kick in then!

I WISH I had this nesting thing. I have my parents here this weekend and my house is a complete shit tip. Ive known theyve been coming for a couple of weeks, I just cant be bothered to do anything about it.

Do you want to come round mine?

My OH has that book too I thought it was quite funny.



xxx

Welcome and Congrats! I know what you mean! All I want to do is clean and get my house in order before Peanut arrives and I SO want to paint/set up the nursery, but I have foster cats living in there right now (along with 3 litter boxes..gag)..and we can't paint until spring so that it dries properly and we can ventilate. SO frustrating!

Oh I so know what you mean. I have a list of furniture I want to buy, curtains I envision in the living room, visions of gutting our bathrooms and re-doing them, I want to replacing the flooring in the living room, the kitchen. I need to replace the carpet in the baby's room. Every single closet needs to be cleaned out and sorted out. I made a start on our garage this weekend as well. I want to clean out the pantry in the kitchen, and all the cabinets. I want to organize the library we have in the closet in my DH's office. AND don't get me started on the yard, and our driveway. Bulldozer anyone?!?!

The only nesting I'm going to be doing is in my bed- and thats a promise!!

Welcome and congrats. I think about all the stuff I want to do to our house before the baby gets here, but money is always an issue. We still have to buy baby furniture, a car seat, stroller, etc.... I can't be spending money on stuff for the house when I have bigger fish to fry. I think we just need to win the lottery. It will get better and it's perfectly natural. Gotta love our hormones, lol!!!

I've had this since about 19 weeks. We are just finishing up a MAJOR remodel, so I have wanted to do that, but I've been furiously organizing every closet in my house, my garage and this weekend we are moving on to getting the nursery done. Things are messy, because I'm organizing everything. I think my DH is SO tired of me taking things back and forth from the garage and making him get on the ladder to put stuff away and planning new shelves and closets.

BTW, I don't think it ends until birth!