When did nesting kick in and when did you start to feel tired again?

[Cherished]

Hi girls, just wondering when your 'nesting' kicked in during this (or other) pregnancies? I feel like i want to have everything done as soon as possible, ie any house chores or clean ups etc before I start getting too large and uncomfortable however some people I've mentioned this to said I should wait because when 'nesting' kicks in I will just do it all again anyway. I can't see that happening to be honest. I only have a small list of things to do and if I do them now why would I do it again?

Also when did you start feeling tired again (if you did at all) I have really started to feel worn out again, similar to the 1st tri and I guess it will only get worse. For example today I am ready to fall asleep at my work desk and I need a nana nap!

[Kazbah]

I finished up at work at 36 weeks and slept the first week off. Prior to that, I was falling asleep on the drive home from about 32 weeks. (lucky for me DH was driving!!!).

As for serious nesting, I started about 3 days before Pip arrived, I was already o/due at that stage ... I did however do a lot of washing and stuff from about 34 weeks.

[Visitor7]

With both of my previous pregnancies, I didn't 'nest' until the night before I had them. I think that's my sign of impending labour! Tiredness, with this pregnancy it hit about 5 days ago. Up until then, I had so much energy and felt fantastic. I now feel like I'm 38 weeks pregnant, but I'm only 31!

[sloane]

i finished up work around 33/34 weeks & i was pretty tired when i got home from work (it was an hours drive each way) but i wasn't too bad. from there on, because i was at home, i could have a nana nap most afternoons & i was fine.

with the nesting - i never got it in the cleaning form so i'd say do the chores now if you want/feel motivated! my nesting was only ever really to do with cooking...i didn't know it was possible to bake so many batches of muffins & cookies! my DP put on about 3kg

[Visitor7]

my nesting was only ever really to do with cooking...i didn't know it was possible to bake so many batches of muffins & cookies! my DP put on about 3kg

I can't get enough of baking at the moment! I'm having a forced break from it (which means I haven't baked a cake in 4 days) and dh asked me last night where the cake was as he's getting cravings for cake every day now lol

[deletedit]

I renovated a house pregnant with my first, and added a bedroom pregnant with my second (with 12' ceilings, I had some issues hauling myself up onto the scaffold to paint). This time ... meh. I've sorted the old baby clothes out, made sure we've got everything we need, and I'm trying to get the backyard landscaped so we can sell this house to pay for one we actually all fit into. But nothing so dramatic as the last two times. I guess building an entire new house for the baby counts as pretty extreme nesting but it is very hands off

But right now I have a nasty cold so slobbing around in my pajamas honking my way through lots of tissues and spending a lot of time snuggling with a sick toddler on the couch is taking precedence over nesting.

[human bean]

I kept waiting for the nesting bug to kick in, but I'm not sure it did. Probably the closest I got to nesting was the day before DD was born I cleaned out the cupboard underneath the sink, I did actually want to do the rest of the kitchen cupboards but I was having sporadic contractions and had to walk through alot of them so it was too annoying to keep getting interrupted with them so I gave up.

As for getting tired again, I finished work a few days before I hit 38wks, and it hit me then how very tired I was. I nanna napped nearly every day until I had her and took it really easy.

[didispunk]

I am so glad my nesting bug kicked in at 6 weeks and i was nesting.. cleaning.. cooking you name it and now looking back .. Thank goodness I did..

AS now i am so uncomfortable so sore and just awful times.. that i am glad i got so much done back then!!!

So do it now if you can early!

[Loula]

As ive not been working i have good and bad days today has been great!

Ive moved funiture in the bedroom and lounge to vac and clean, dust ect. Sorted out all the shoes in the wardrobe. Cleaned under the sink washed the bins, and sorted cleaning chemicals! Then moved onto the bathroom cleaned out the cupboard, cleaned two toilet and showers!!! and now on the fourth load of washing i dont know what has come over me!!!!

[Cherished]

thanks for all the replies girls. I've been taking 2 x my vit B tabs in teh morning to give me a kick but they aren't starting to work for a couple of hours even! Today I managed to do that washing and ironing which is a start and dh and I got one little outside job done so I guess that is something. I hope my Vit B tabs are working tomorrow cause I've got a big day planned of re potting plants, looking at prams, pilates and then out to dinner which is a 30 min drive away... Lord help me not to pass out at the dinner table

[Jellymaker]

I finished work at 36 weeks and had bubs at 38 and 4 days. The two weeks i spent laying around the house i was heaps tired though i wasnt really doing anything and fell asleep heaps. Like the other ladies i didnt clean or organise with my nesting but made a big batch of cookies the day before i went into labour. Previous to that i had the nursery etc done very early in my second trimester, so *shrug* each person does their own thing.

[LimeSlice]

I went into hypernesting mode at about 37 weeks...lasted until about 3 days before I had her (8 days overdue lol) I was unstoppable...I mowed the lawn in 46 degree Perth heat on my due date and washed both cars, moved furniture around the house, cleaned out cupboards, reorganised my linen press....the whole lot!!
and I LOVED it. And I redid EVERYTHING I had done earlier in the pregnancy too.

I worked until I was 8.5 months, 16 hours a day, but I slept on my 2 hour split in my car everyday Aside that I wasn't really very tired until the 3 days before she was born when the nesting left me and the "you had better rest woman" kicked in.

[Cherished]

Holly Molly LS you are a machine!!! lol

[ElleJay]

I remember getting into the 'nesting' stage at 25wks pregnant! Then it died off after a couple of days then from 39wks, I was a terror! You may even remember the thread that I started with all the things I did in one day!

[~clover~]

I don't think I ever nested with the girls, but MIL scored big time when I had DS!
I stayed with her for a few weeks before the birth, coz I didn't want to travel 2 hours to the hossy in labour. The day before I had him I went to town with MIL, so walked around in there for about 5 hours, then came home & didn't stop! I swept all her tiled floors. Dining room, hall, kitchen, bathroom, toilet & laundry. Then I vaccuumed all those floors as well as the loungeroom. Then I mopped all the tiled floors AND went around the skirting boards with the mop. THEN walked 2 kms to the pub for a game of pool, lol. Labour started at 5am the next morning.