captain-ally
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Is anyone else suffering from nesting instincts? I'm not sure if it's hormonal or just completely psychotic, but it's been forcibly displacing my brain. Going to my parents' house and my grandparents' house just throws into sharp relief how much I hate our apartment and don't want to raise a baby here. I don't know why the hell I'm even upset, our lease ends 2.5 months after the baby is born. We're not here forever.
I even started crying last night, which is really unlike me. I think it freaked my husband out, and he looked really frustrated because all I can talk about is houses and furniture we can't afford until I find a job. It makes him feel bad for not being able to provide (which he is, when I'm not a psycho)
IS THERE A CURE FOR THIS?!?!
My husband's daddy book (So you're going to be a dad; peter downey) says this about nesting urge: (this book is hilarious and I suggest it for your OH/DHes and to read yourself)
"Science tells us that all birds have a nesting urge. In the period before they lay their eggs, they go into a frenzy of nest-making. This is due to the fact that when the eggs finally emerge, the mother wants to stay somewhere warm and safe until the chicks hatch.
All birds get the nesting urge.
All pregnant women get the nesting urge.
Now, your wife won't be up a tree making a little basket out of twigs, cotton and mud, I hope, but the nesting urge will definitely manifest itself in its own cute way.
It's some kind of biological thing. In a woman's brains, just under the hypothalamus, there is a small gland that secretes nesting urge hormone. When this gland starts operating, you will notice some changes in your wife, such as an absence of logic, no concept of reason, and a strong desire to make major architectural changes to the infrastructure of your home."
I even started crying last night, which is really unlike me. I think it freaked my husband out, and he looked really frustrated because all I can talk about is houses and furniture we can't afford until I find a job. It makes him feel bad for not being able to provide (which he is, when I'm not a psycho)
IS THERE A CURE FOR THIS?!?!
My husband's daddy book (So you're going to be a dad; peter downey) says this about nesting urge: (this book is hilarious and I suggest it for your OH/DHes and to read yourself)
"Science tells us that all birds have a nesting urge. In the period before they lay their eggs, they go into a frenzy of nest-making. This is due to the fact that when the eggs finally emerge, the mother wants to stay somewhere warm and safe until the chicks hatch.
All birds get the nesting urge.
All pregnant women get the nesting urge.
Now, your wife won't be up a tree making a little basket out of twigs, cotton and mud, I hope, but the nesting urge will definitely manifest itself in its own cute way.
It's some kind of biological thing. In a woman's brains, just under the hypothalamus, there is a small gland that secretes nesting urge hormone. When this gland starts operating, you will notice some changes in your wife, such as an absence of logic, no concept of reason, and a strong desire to make major architectural changes to the infrastructure of your home."
It will get better and it's perfectly natural. Gotta love our hormones, lol!!!
