apparently a lot of mums-to-be go through a nesting phase - a time where they prepare their nursery, gathering the various bits and pieces that will be needed for the baby and generally cleaning up and organising things.
i haven't really been able to allow myself to do that because of our living situation, although we have bought the car seat and stroller (hoorah for sales!!).
anyway, today was the first official opportunity for nesting i reckon. a lovely couple from our church have given us a secondhand cot - which they brought over today and put together. and it's a beauty! it makes me excited to gather the rest of the bits and pieces we will need. thankfully a number of different people are offering us different pieces of furniture, which takes the pressure of a bit. and thankfully we aren't really into themes for the nursery - so are quite happy to bring Guido into a higgildy piggildy world of blues, reds, whites, turtles, poohs, and whatever else crops up.
I'm hopeful that this nesting instinct that i'm meant to feel won't amount to the following:
"Nesting brings about some unique and seemingly irrational behaviors in pregnant women and all of them experience it differently. Women have reported throwing away perfectly good sheets and towels because they felt the strong need to have "brand new, clean" sheets and towels in their home. They have also reported doing things like taking apart the knobs on kitchen cupboards, just so they could disinfect the screws attached to the knobs. Women have discussed taking on cleaning their entire house, armed with a toothbrush. There seems to be no end to the lengths a nesting mother will go to prepare for her upcoming arrival.
This unusual burst of energy is responsible for women ironing anything in the house that couldn't out run them. Being preoccupied with ant killing, squishing them one at a time for weeks on end. Packing and unpacking the labor bag 50 times. Cleaning the kitchen cupboards and organizing everything by size to the point that you make sure the silverware patterns match when it's stacked in the cutlery drawer. Sorting the baby's clothes over and over again is a favorite theme. Taking them out of the drawers and re-folding them, putting them away and doing it over and over again."
i don't think i'll quite get to that. well, i hope not!
Category: bubbaDo you have a labour bag???
Posted by: Justine at September 2, 2008 09:37 PMFeel free to do the cleaning thing, though not too much. Please don't throw out any of my stuff. If your nesting instinct leads you cook sticky date pudding a lot, or something equally scrumptious, I'm happy to help eat it.
Posted by: Tom at September 4, 2008 09:51 PM