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how many of you.... Posted: 02-18-08 15:06pm
went into a superfreaky "nesting" stage in
your pregnancy? I'm 32 weeks and I am
FREAKING out! There is soooooo much to
get done and only 8 or so weeks. We
haven't even starting painting in the
baby's room yet! I'm "not allowed" to
paint, but nobody else is doing anything.
I've been doing all kinds of stuff to get
ready, and I feel like nobody is helping
me! I'm just ready to
screammmmmmm!!!!!!!!
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Bridget
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Posted: 02-18-08 15:14pm
i was on bedrest during the end of my last
pregnancy, so i didn't get to nest. now
i'm 33 weeks and it's not really consuming
me, but i do want to mop the kitchen every
day. some days i'm just struck with the
motivation to get stuff done, like 5 loads
of laundry or vacuuming every room. i'm
hoping to get hit with it big time around
the time she's due because i want to come
home from the hospital to a clean house.
i'd probably be frustrated if i needed to
get stuff ready for the baby too.
unfortunately there really isn't anything
to do since she'll be sharing a room with
my son. i just have some little things,
like washing her clothes (i want to wait
until right before she's due, because my
son will just empty her drawer and throw
everything around his room) and getting
the swing and bouncer out.
tell your husband or whoever is going to
paint that you would feel a lot less
stressed if they would just get it done
and over with!
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chrissy721
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Posted: 02-18-08 15:23pm
Yea, what I've
been doing, is....(.most of the stuff that
needs done, I can't because it's "too
heavy" or "fumey" or whatever) and my
husband yells at me when I go near the
stuff...so I.....go get the can of paint,
open that baby up, (while huffing and
puffing and making alot of noise, and put
some paint on a paint brush and "pretend"
like I'm going to just do it myself and
then he's like "what are you doing" and I
say "well someone has to do this" and
he'll normally take over. If I just ask
him to work on it, he get's all huffy with
me like "I'm tired!" So I have to trick
him into it/guilt him into it. It's a
little frustrating to me.
I'm one of those people who just likes to
get stuff done and if I have to work for a
few days to do it, I will. I work 10 hour
days for 4 days a week, come home every
night, do dishes, laundry, make supper,
and then I try to get something done for
the baby, even if it's something small
like cleaning out a room or scrubbing
something, as long as I am doing
something. Then on my day off, I run
errands in the morning (groceries, pay
bills, etc) and then come home and work on
baby stuff all day. Our house is a huge
mess since we are trying to remodel abunch
of stuff before the baby gets here and I
just can't take it!
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rosejackson
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Posted: 02-18-08 16:11pm
i remember wanting to wash all of
william's clothes near the end. and i was
freaking out even though everything was
done
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Ayrshire-lass
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Posted: 02-19-08 08:58am
lol everyone went out for a long walk one
day when i was about 30 weeks and i still
hadnt painted the room. no one would let
me!
but they were all to buisy to do it.
so that day i was in myself i just grabbed
the paint and done it within about 2 hours
and it was nearly dry by the time they
were back lol.
cudnt do nuthin about it lol
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mamaTT
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Posted: 02-19-08 09:25am
I never went through the nesting phase.
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chrissy721
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Posted: 02-19-08 10:34am
haha....I finished wallpapering our
bathroom yesterday. Tonight I will ask my
husband to put back the light fixtures,
and start on the floor in the bathroom.
I will work on sanding down my glider. I
bought a glider online for $20 that just
needed recovered and refinished. So I
made new cushions for it, and now I just
need to sand and stain it.
My baby shower is going to be at my house,
and I want it to look nice. It will be
the first time most of my family has seen
it and I don't want to look like a bum and
I want my baby to have a nice house, so we
are fixing up a bunch of stuff all at
once! (my husband lived in the house
before me so it looks like an ugly
bachelor pad basically) I wallpapered our
living room, bought a couch off my
mother-in-law, got a new rug, ohhhh yea
and a new dining room table with tax
money. (I had an accident last Saturday
that goes with the table purchase, which
I'll have to start a new topic for because
it's just too funny to post here)
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Bridget
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Posted: 02-20-08 13:33pm
well, i think it's happening... i've
become obsessed with cleaning. well, not
so much cleaning but i'm trying to keep
everything picked up. i'm constantly
loading and unloading the dishwasher, when
before i would just leave it until after
dinner. i'm doing laundry even though i
only have 1 load and i usually wait until
i have 3-4 and do it all in one day. i'm
following finn around and picking up after
him. i've wiped the counters down a
hundred times. hopefully i'll keep this
up!
chrissy, what kind of nursery are you
going to have?
I went thru nesting at about 30 weeks
along and it diddnt fade until baby was
born and brought home, I was 1 week
overdue with my son. =D
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Posted: 02-20-08 14:37pm
I'm 31wks and I'm definitely starting. I
hate mopping, so I just wiped down the
bathroom floor with disinfecting wipes.
(My belly is still kinda small, so it's
still easy at this point) I think once the
house gets spotless (no water=disaster)
I'll keep it that way, if not better.
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Emma2
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Posted: 02-20-08 14:52pm
i remember washing all the new blankets
and clothes for Christian and cleaning the
floor like amad woman but that was only
the last few days...i guess u can say i
did
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O0o0h_baby
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Posted: 02-20-08 14:57pm
I hope I get this my house needs help
right now haha ^^
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chrissy721
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Posted: 02-20-08 15:22pm
chrissy, what kind of nursery are you
going to have?[/quote]
we are painting the walls a buttery
yellow, and the floor/trim dark brown,
with a Classic Pooh theme. We bought a
really cool rug with a bunch of different
colors in it, reds, greens, yellows, etc
but not bright colors, they are kind of
muted. All I have for a crib at the
moment is a pack-n-play. And I am drawing
pictures of classic pooh to frame and put
on the walls, and the glider I'm redoing
will be in there. I made a quilt out of
light yellow squares and a classic pooh
pattern that turned out pretty good. I'll
have to take a pic and post it soon of the
quilt.
I think we are going to keep him in our
room for a few months until I can get used
to having him in the house. I don't think
I could handle having him in a different
room at first. Hopefully I'll get the
bassinet I registered for. Otherwise I'll
have to go buy one. This summer I'll look
around at garage sales for a nice crib,
and hopefully find a decent one.
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Bridget
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Posted: 02-20-08 15:37pm
you'll have to take pictures when the room
is done!
does your pack n play have the bassinet
attachment? that's what we're using for
the first 3 months or so.
oh, and does he have a name?
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chrissy721
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Posted: 02-20-08 15:58pm
No on the bassinet attachment, and his
name will bey Kyle Gavyn. I thought for
sure I was having a girl, so I told my
husband that I'd pick the girls name and
he'd get to pick the boys name (first name
that is) and we wound up having a boy so
he picked Kyle. I picked Gavyn for the
middle name. He said it would be what
he'd pick for himself if he got to pick
his own name.
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Posted: 02-20-08 20:12pm
I got that way every now and then for my
1st pregnancy. For this pregnancy I've
been nesting for about 3 weeks now. I
have so much more to do though.