Is this the nesting instinct kicking in?

[ontheedgeofwhatever]

I thought it wasn't meant to happen for a few more weeks and got nothing like this with DD - I'm 32 weeks tomorrow.

Since yesterday afternoon I've started sorting out bags of rubbish, bags of charity box stuff and I've been ruthless. This morning I woke up, called up a skip company for a mini skip and kept collecting stuff. My little skip turned up around an hour ago and I've more than half filled it. I've taken a big ikea bag full of stuff to a charity shop and I have another filled and ready to go.

I haven't even started on DD's room or the cellar and I can still see clutter ready to be skipped in every single room - its like peellng back an onion I keep finding more stuff.

I ache all over Tell me it will stop when I finally fill the skip its a little bit scarey!!

Could you pop past mine once you're done please. Take your skip with you. Our study is in a right old state!

Ah but the thing is once al the clutter has gone, youll notice the walls more and they will obviously need a lick of paint too.

id love to say it stops, but i started around the same time as you, this morning alone ive just finished painting the living room, when i get back from the midwife il be painting the skirtings in the hall and tomorrow im planning on wallpapering a feature wall. im due on monday

I am a bit behind you in weeks but this weekend taught myself to crochet, started making a blanket for the new baby, cooked muffins and flapjacks and cleared out all DS's too-small clothes :-)

I cleaned the fridge out yesterday and thought is this is starting? Im only 27 weeks though and it didnt kick in till about 38 weeks with DC2 and never with DC1

Maybe I'm just a lazy cow!? :)

I've painted the whole house white, made lots of trips to charity shops, done loads of sewing, made presents for friends and lost track of the cakes and biscuits I've made for visitors (which I then ate myself)...

God I remember it well, PGP on crutches in pain and mowing the grass (crutches and all) because DH hadn't got round to it...! Not to mention cleaning inside the kitchen cupboards, not that the baby was going to even see inside the kitchen cupboards but for some reasons in my hormal state I decided that they needed doing there and then!

I just did inside the kitchen cupboards today- what is i up with us? Tried to rest and ended up sorting through my underwear/small clothes drawers and then on my hands and knees wiping bedroom floor with baby wipes. I don't have crutches but have PGP too bad enough to be on codeine- I can't stop the madness!

I woke up at 2am today with a burning urge to go through all my tights and chuck out anything with holes or ladders - this done I happily went back to sleep.

Right now I'm fighting the desire to dismantle the broken bed in DDs room and throw it in my trusty skip - surely I can leave one or two jobs for DP?

Oh and the garden shed looks a bit messy

Well you should have finished de cluttering by 36 weeks just in time to start cleaning
The fridge
Tops of cupboards
Skirting boards
Grout in between tiles
An old toothbrush or 3 is very good for fiddly areas.
my house had never been so tidy and clean as the 6 weeks before my babies were due. And it certainly hasnt been as clean or tidy since! Dh has already laughingly commented that we won't need to worry about the house being tidy for Christmas this year, what with me being due early feb we will be able to eat Christmas lunch off the dining room floor.

My cleaning and tidying obsession started at 17 weeks. For the last 2 months DH has been saying to me 'will you stop cleaning and come and watch some TV'. I've sorted out and chucked so much stuff, and I keep going over and over it, so I think by the time the baby's here the only thing actually left in the house will be a moses basket. Oh, and I make sure everything is straight, e.g. coasters must be parallel to the edge of the table and all bottles/jars etc in kitchen or bathroom must have the labels facing forward. If I go anywhere and there are chairs not pushed in, I have to push them in. Actually, I think I might just be crazy....!

My hormones are letting me have a day off. I'm exhausted though far from satisfied with the amount of rubbish still left. I went to DDs school this morning to help with a craft project they were doing - great fun but they started with a pantomime type thing. 90 children make a lot of noise - baby could obviously hear them shouting and seemed to be trying to get out from the kicks i was getting