https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 20 May 2026 12:25:45 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-dh-nest-before-baby-arrived#post-642826 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:22:47 +0000 Boogs 642826@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For sure. DH was doing an insane number of projects around the house. He was still painting in our family room about 12 hours before my water broke. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-dh-nest-before-baby-arrived#post-642604 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:44:35 +0000 autumnlove 642604@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He put together Ikea furniture and painted a bookcase! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-dh-nest-before-baby-arrived#post-642573 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:42:06 +0000 heffalump 642573@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well.... We moved when I was 8 1/2 months pregnant. So he had a lot of work to do! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-dh-nest-before-baby-arrived#post-642036 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:34:59 +0000 Rubies 642036@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband was the complete opposite. It didn't hit him that we were having a baby until we actually came home with the baby! LOL! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-dh-nest-before-baby-arrived#post-641991 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:28:45 +0000 heartonastring 641991@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DH is kind of driving me insane. I actually had to have a talk with him the other night about his obsessive version of nesting. I think the poor guy is anxious about baby arriving in a few weeks and doesn't know what to do with himself. So he has resorted to being completely obsessed with our basement.</p> <p>Our basement is unfinished and he's on his third or fourth straight night of vacuming every square inch of it (seriously, it's probably been two cumulative hours of vacuuming and the vacuum's going again now). He's also taken multiple loads of stuff we were storing down there to the dump. And he can't stop talking about a little bit of mold that's growing in our cold room. I can't quite express how obsessive he's being.</p> <p>The other night when he told me he needed me to go through some boxes I got kind of upset and told him that while I have a very long to do list at the moment, going through boxes in the basement ranks way below absolutely everything else.</p> <p>So basically he's latched onto something that has absolutely nothing to do with the baby's arrival and won't stop talking/thinking/doing down there. I'm trying to be sympathetic and understand that this is just his way of dealing, but he's driving me NUTS!</p> <p>Anyone else's DH find weird ways of dealing with baby's imminent arrival??? </p>