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I'm still waiting for the nesting instinct to come in.

I need my house clean and organized all the time so that part didn't really change when I was pregnant. I could tell that I was nesting at 34 weeks when I made a crazy amount of freezer meals in one day to prepare for baby's arrival. I kept talking about making them all week and it was all I could think about. I HAD to do it. Even though I was physically exhausted I got a surge of energy and cooked/prepared all day.

Never!

35 weeks when my OB threatened to induce me. We had NOTHING ready!

I think around 30 weeks I went through all of the baby clothes and tried to get it all organized. I need it to hit me again because our house is chaotic.

I think I already am at 29 weeks! Ever since 24 weeks I've had a compulsion to get things sorted though, I think it's just inherently my personality LOL

I'm 24 weeks and it's kicked in the past few weeks! I've been organizing the clothes we have, clearing out clutter and cleaning/organizing all the stuff I've been meaning to get to for months. It feels so good!

Erm... as soon as the morning sickness ended?

I painted our bedroom, bought a chest freezer and completely filled it with homemade meals, cleaned and organized my van to the point that the midwife called the whole office out to see it (I had a color coded system of emergency supplies in the back. Everything you could possibly imagine).

I've been nesting since the first trimester exhaustion went away! I reorganised all of LO's baby stuff and have everything organised into crates, all clearly labelled and just ready to be pulled out - 'pre-baby' (stuff to get out before baby arrives), newborn clothes, newborn essentials, 0-3 gender neutral, 0-3 girl, etc....

I'm already a bit anal retentive about the house so that's no different, but I've become little miss crafty as well! I made LO a felt tree with ornaments that were way too elaborate for a 17 month old, am currently working on an insanely intricate stocking for DH, and have already purchased the fabric to make the new baby bunting after I finish the stocking. Nesting is seriously out of control.

My nesting really kicked in during the second trimester. I was cleaning and organizing every room in the house like a freak! It's tapered off now, though at 29 weeks since I'm starting to get tired. Nursery furniture is being delivered Friday, though so I'm excited to decorate! I'm definitely glad I got a huge amount of organizing/cleaning out of the way early on - now it's just a matter of maintaining. I think we'll bring in a housekeeper in January every few weeks so I don't have to clean.