Where is my nesting instinct? When did yours appear?

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I'm looking forward to that rush of enthusiasm, but right now I cannot be bothered to do much!
When did yours appear? I can't remember when it started with DS1 (18 years ago) but I do remember not letting a little thing like being huge from stopping me from cleaning like a mad woman

4 pregnancies, 3 babies and 0 nesting instincts here

Mine keeps coming and going and has been like that for the last few weeks. At 36 weeks I cleaned the house from top to bottom, tonight, at 38 weeks, it is back to being a dump & I haven't even got the energy to put my shoes away.

35 weeks, no instinct to do anything other than sit in the garden with bottles of chilled alcohol-free lager and my feet in the paddling pool!

Mine was approximately 38 weeks in length for the duration of both pregnancies, when I compulsively shopped for pouffes, cushions and Liberty-print cot bumpers. I totally over feathered my best....

When I threw a hissy fit over needing a Dyson because the house was' crunchy' at 38 weeks!

39+4 with my second and am convinced the instinct is a myth!

Never, though I was cleaning the skirting boards at 39 weeks, just to try and get the baby out.

T minus 9days, just before my waters broke!

Mine never appeared! I kept waiting for it to kick in, particularly once we moved house and I went on maternity leave but it didn't happen. I planned on a deep clean in the last few weeks but DS appeared three weeks early so that scuppered those plans!

26 weeks! My house was immaculate and I did some crazy thing eg hoovering my fridge and toaster twice daily, only using apple scented cleaning products and deep cleaning my toilet every morning

Myth, going on my own experience and those of my friends. I went over a fortnight overdue with my son, having had to go on maternity leave early, and I spent everyone of those weeks cramming in as much theatre, cinema and concerts as I could fit. 'The baby's room' was still only a concept/a small, empty room with a cot when I brought him home from hospital...

With my DS, who was born at 37 weeks I got no nesting instinct whatsoever. This time around I am around 22 weeks and I am obsessing over decluttering and creating more storage already...no cleaning instinct at all so yeah defo a myth IME!

I forgot that I'd started this thread

There's possibly no hope for my nesting instinct then? Excellent, I'll just keep my puffy feet raised until September

Mine started yesterday, started deep cleaning kitchen, then fell asleep in afternoon, was exhausted!

Mine started a couple of weeks ago... bought the whole cleaning aisle of the 99p shop and went to town! House now looks lovely. I also made husband clean the oven

Nursery needs a lot of work, but I've got time!!!

4 kids , no nesting

Not a myth IME, with DD I cleaned the tops, sides and insides of all fitted wardrobes in the house at about 38 weeks. I was like a mad woman doing it too.

With DS, I got up out of bed at about 1am one night, went down to the utility /garage and started pouring bleach everywhere. Cleaned like mad for about 2 hours then back to bed. Had DS a few days later.

I've always been a clean freak but I'm 39 weeks and been driving myself crazy for a few weeks doing more OCD cleaning than I already do haha.