Nesting

"Around the fifth month of pregnancy, the "nesting" instinct can set in. This is an uncontrollable urge to clean one's house brought on by a desire to prepare a nest for the new baby, to tie up loose ends of old projects and to organize your world. 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. Nesting will provide interesting stories for years to come."

Everything highlighted in purple describes me in the past 2 weeks. I call this phenomenon...NESTING. Some people say nesting starts in the last month of pregnancy just before labor, others say nesting can start soon after a positive pregnancy test. The most common theory puts the nesting behavior right around the 5th month of pregnancy. Yep, that's me. I do believe I have begun this crazy, unusual, pattern of behaviors. The entire post above describes me to a "T." Some crazy things I have done:

-Taken all the baby clothes off hangers, washed them, and re-hung them--repeatedly.
-Vaccummed every room in the house, sometimes multiple times a day.
-Inspecting the newly painted walls daily for new marks or scratches to be painted over again.
-Wiped down counters and surfaces multiple times a day
-Cleaned out baby's closet atleast twice, which includes removing large items for no reason

Some of these things actually don't seem that crazy, but if you followd me around all day and watched the consistancy at which I do these things, it would be rather amuzing. I am scared to think what I will do closer to labor. It just seems that the word "cleaning" is becoming more popular around here. It is amazing what hormones will do to a woman's body. These behaviors are simply something "I must do." No questions about it. Do you have a funny "nesting" story?