re-arranging the furniture?!?

[first_time_mummy]

Okay, so ive been obsessed with cleaning, and re arranging the furniture in our house lately.

I completely re arranged our bedroom, and part of the lounge room, and have been obsessed in getting new bed side tables and baby furniture.

My dp came home the other day and started laughing, saying, 'oh, your doing that pregnancy thing'

I was like...'huh?'

Apparently him and his dad said that a lot of women start to rearrange the house and furniture, when they are pregnant.

I was just wondering if anyone has had a similar urge, to rearrange the house layout?

[Purple Penguin]

welcome to the 'nesting' phase!

i am going through it too and because of my back/pelvic pain there's nothing i can do about it for now... it's a pain...

[NaeNae]

I am not allowed to re arrange anything (heavy lifting) but I KNOW as soon as I get the chance and am allowed to make changes I will be doing that. I also have in my mind how I am going to renovate the next bedroom and one of our bathrooms.

Dh just ignores me or say - draw me a plan and I will do it

[first_time_mummy]

lol, ahh, the nesting stage.
Its really we have these feeling to want to re arrange everything hey.

I wake up and have a big plan on what i want to do, and where i want to put thigs lol.

And i cant stand mess, I have never been the one to do house work, and now i cant walk past an empty glass without taking it to the kitchen, washing it, and wiping the bench where it was sitting lol

I hope im not getting ocd...I mean sitting at home all day with all this time on my hands is really done the house some good lol.

Oh and my back is suffereing badly from all this furniture moving and stuff, I had to leave my current job, because my back was getting bad, and now im at home lifting, which is prob worse!!!

Im sitting here at the computer in pain now, and regretting doing all that lifting.

I just have to be careful i dont strain anything, or get to stressed out, because i get VERY stressed when i do house work, and something doesnt go right...i get so worked up over nothing lol

[Willow]

It's not OCD...welcome to the nesting phase

Mine struck rather late this time around, but I'm making up for it this week!

Just be careful not to overdo it.

[Nelle]

Haha, I remember sitting on a chair and pointing where I wanted things to go - poor dh rearranged our loungeroom about 5 times last pregnancy!

[~Kim~]

hmmm hmmm! And you'll notice dust you've never seen before.....

[first_time_mummy]

Lol....yep, im cleaning dust from along the skirting boards along the wall too....i couldnt believe how dusty this house is. and especially under the bed!! I never used to clean or vaccuum under the bed, and was absolutely shocked by the dust accumulation under there lol

[chickenlittle]

I found myself cleaning the fridge the other night at 11.40 from top to bottom... I'm talking about taking everything off the top shelf, cleaning the shelf, rearranging the food, then moving on to the next shelf. And washing out the fruit and veg drawers, and cleaning out all the door compartments.
I have only ever done this three times in my life..... once with each pregnancy.
Stupid fridge cleaning nesting instinct.
Maybe my nesting instinct could channel me to do some tax paperwork instead... that's what I SHOULD be doing.

[Stevie]

oh how i wish i had the time and effort to do all those things
with work and running around after DH (while he's away at work there si SOO many things that need to be done)
and at the moment i am completely miserable, i jus want to crawl under my doona and sleep lol.

[hobbes5]

Just this weekend I rearranged the older kids rooms lol. Boy was that satisfying or what!

Must get into the 2 little ones before the twins come along...(sigh!)

[first_time_mummy]

lol, its very weird how things change during pregnancy hey, lol.
Its such a wonderful thing, and at 20 weeks, i just keep suprising myself lol.

The worse thing with me is, at the moment i cant stand mess, cant stand things cluttering up rooms, and so i just put it all in a bag and take it to vinnies, or sell unwanted furniture and stuff.

Im scared that in a month or two ill realise how silly i was not to hang onto it all