Moms and Moms-to-Be: What bizarre things did you do while nesting?

Question

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While pregnant with my first child, I cleaned the kitchen and bathroom with a toothbrush.

This time, first I rearranged the house and then I laid a new bathroom floor (while 8 months pregnant). It's like something came over me and it had to be done. LOL

Care to share your nesting stories?

Answer 1

hahaha my first pregnancy i cleaned ALL the time. i would wake up in the middle of the night and clean even though i had cleaned 5 hours ago. thats all i could do cuz our house was pile high with junk (we had 3 people living in a 2 1 aptso lots of stuff stacked)

my second pregnancy i would clean and organize and reorganize and reclean. we had moved into a house while i was 7 months pregnant and we had to repaint and lay carpet and my husband had no clue how to do any of that and me working in construction and having a master handy man as a father knew how to do it all lol but my husband refused to have me do anything and he did everything COMPLETELY WRONG our house now looks like c**p cuz he didnt want me doing anything. i was so pissed off at the **** job he did. but i would get on my hands and knees scrub the floors and vaccum 3 times a day lol.

this pregnancy i havent started nesting yet and i will just clean most likely and freak out if things are not in there place.

Answer 2

Haha you sound like me :)

I am the same, I started cleaning EVERYTHING, from windows to under the bed. I would sit there at 11pm at night and all of sudden want to clean something, to me it didnt matter what it was, everything just has to be clean.

I even get down on my hands and knee's and clean our rug by hand...its crazy.

Answer 3

I washed the sheets and blankets on our bed convinced they weren't clean enough. Then I had them professionally cleaned. My husband smokes and I was convinced I could always smell cigarette smoke. Finally I tossed everything out and bought a whole new bed set. And I painted the entire nursery by myself when I was almost 8 months pregnant one random day. My husband came home and I was on a ladder painting the nursery covered in green paint.  

Answer 4

I have just started the nesting period.  I have stripped bare every cupboard in the house and cleaned it thoroughly and thrown out bags of stuff.  

I have also ironed every item of clothing in my wardrobe.

I cant have any cups or anything left in the sink, even if it means cleaning one lone cup before i go to bed, i cant have it just sat there dirty or i wont sleep.  

Answer 5

Well I nested the entire middle trimester as opposed to the last trimester because I was too big, too pissy, and too tired. I cleaned and almost became OCD about even the smallest thing out of place. I vacuumed everyday, I rearranged furniture constantly and did every dish in the sink when I was done with it so there was never a mess.

Answer 6

to be honest i did not go through the nesting stage - not sure if thats normal or not either. but have fun in what ever you get up to just be carefull not to do to much

Answer 7

I used to get this irresistable urge at 2 am to get up and  clean out/rearrange the closets in the house. Seriously!!

I would bolt up out of bed just knowing that the closets HAD to be cleaned. LOL

Weird huh?

Answer 8

With my daughter, I organized and re-organized my canned goods, putting them in alphabetical order so i could find them eaiser. Cleaned all the baseboards with a toothbrush, steam cleaned the carpet, all kinds of cleaning!!!

Good luck!!

Answer 9

I decided that the tiny space behind the refrigerator had to be cleaned so I hired movers to move it for about an hour and a half while I cleaned there. My husband came home from work early that day to find the refrigerator in the driveway and 3 huge men standing around looking puzzled.