Nesting Urges?

[NaeNae]

I have this on my FB status too so some of you may think Ihave lost the plot by asking twice

I have this urge to wash all my old newborn stuff including wraps. They were all washed before packing away and still smell like nappysan as I had soaked them all before packing up.

I have approx 6 weeks left but I just feel like I NEED to do this. I have a few things out to go into my labour bag for when the baby actually arrives.

So should I just wash and satisfy this urge - which will mean washing again closer to time to ensure everything is nice and fresh, or should I just wait a few more weeks?

DO satisfy your nesting urges as you get them??

Oh its not like I don't have other washing to do its just my needingto wash for the new baby .

Nae x

[Cranky Kitten]

I'd wash them. But then, I've learnt that ignoring my nesting urges or trying to restrain myself leads to getting stressed and irritable, whereas if I just go with it it'll pass soon enough.

[Enchanted]

Like I said before...... DOOOOO IT!!!

[Me+him+bub]

do it! I have only just stopped being obsessed with the scent of cleaning products, I was even sniffing the washing powder there for a while! I have mopped every 2 days for about 8 weeks just to smell the lemon ajax! have fun!

[~Ash~]

do it! I have only just stopped being obsessed with the scent of cleaning products, I was even sniffing the washing powder there for a while! I have mopped every 2 days for about 8 weeks just to smell the lemon ajax! have fun!

That sounds like one heck of a nesting urge!!!!

I would wash them - what the worry with doing it again in a couple of week - an extra dose of washing products?? You're sanity is definitely worth more than that!!!

I remember when I did the baby clothes was before DD was born I spent ages taking photos of them - now I have all these random photos of baby clothes lol

[Smoke Jaguar]

Do it. Once done, you'll find something else that needs rearranging 'just so' I didn't get it so much with DS, but got it with a vengeance to make up for it with DD!

[NaeNae]

Thanks ladies

I have dragged out the box and will go through it and do a couple of loads inthe small machine with some soap flakes and softly so all the fabrics are soft and squishy feeling

OI Mayaness - aren't you meant to be studying?!!! or is this a theraputic rest break

[Jennifer13]

I washed all of our nb stuff again, including blankets (plus all the new MCNs - but the instructions said I had to!!) a couple of weeks ago. It was a nesting thing for me too, plus I quite like washing. Pulling out all the tiny clothes and looking at them again, especially with DD, brought it all home that soon we'd have our new baby girl here.

I don't think you're odd at all!

The nesting urge I have to file all of my office paperwork I am suppressing.

[Cranky Kitten]

I hate washing personally...but my kitchen is getting a going over today, then the floors and I really really want to wash the car. For some reason I want to do it the old way, with a bucket not just at one of those car wash places....

Crazy huh?

[~me~]

I say go with them as you think of them. It kept me sane and with things to do while I was in my last few weeks
I organised and cleaned my pantry to the point that if DH put something out of place, he was in BIG trouble poor love.
I also put our CD's in Alphabetical order.
I also groomed my Cat to the point when she saw me coming (even if I wasn't going to brush her) she would go running!
The house has never been so clean as when I am nesting..wish I was in a nesting mood all of the time

[delphmoon]

My DH nested on my behalf. I was too fat and lazy to do it but if I had an urge, any urge, I would have certainly gone with it lol

No harm done- go do some washing girl!!


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[~Hestia~]

Like I said, that's what I've been doing today! Had a great time going through Moo's clothes, setting aside what I was keeping just for him and what the new baby could wear again. Took me aaaages!

[NaeNae]

Well I have a load in

I keep looking at the newborn stuff thinking "nooooooooo thats sooo small DD wasn't really thats small ... was she?" I think I have almost decided on my special "bring the baby home" outfit too.

Nai got me a gorgeous little outfit for DD was tempted to use it again but decided Tummybunny should have her own "look" so that outfit isn't in the wash.

I will still need to do blankies etc for the hossy stay and I have got a couple of smaller hand croched (sp?) cardi's just in case we get a super icey room again.

I keep looking at a gorgeous knitted shawl (think oversized baby blanket) that MIL made I would LOVE to use that in the hossy but it might be too big for those little plastic tubs the babies sleep in.

It also occured to me - I have forgotten how to "wrap" a baby mg: the traditional swaddling way was still in when we had dd but by the time SIL had her DD 3 months later the hossy had changed to a different way called "Angel wrapping"

I have no idea hwo to do either - though I CAN still remember how to fold a flat nappy *phew*

I am still in disbelief over the size of the 0000. I think I will cry when this baby grows out of things as DH has put his foot firmly down on the whole "no more babies" issue - but thats a whole other thread.

Nae x

[solutionstohealth]

I wish my nesting instinct would kick in - I keep looking around and seeing that things need to be done, and then I wander off and do something else instead and forget all about it.

[Tegam]

Just do it. I wash all the baby stuff at least twice before bubs comes, I just live touching the stuff lol

[NaeNae]

SO todays nesting urge was pretty much that ... I decided to clean out the chook house *blerk* as my girls had stopped laying in there and had started laying inthe old shed. I still have the coop airing now and really should go and put some fresh hay in there ....... so lazy today

[JennaJayen]

Oh my goodness, go with the urge while you have it - I'm an avoider of housework lol and I;'ve been nesting something chronic since I found out at 3wks 2d! lol