The day I went into labor (only I didn’t realize I was in labor), I rearranged the entire stockroom at work, then came home and shoveled all the walks and the driveway and started cleaning every square inch of the house. I was 3 weeks away from my due date, so I just figured, “Oh, this is that nesting thing I heard about. Cool, I’ll have a clean house when we bring the baby home in a couple of weeks!”
9 hours later…baby!
But if you’d have told me to rest, I’d have bit your damn fool head half off and swatted you with the snow shovel. Mama Bear is NESTING and you gaddang well better let her NEST!
I scrubbed both bathrooms and the kitchen with a paste of baking soda and dish soap every day for the last week before I went into labor. The day before, I sewed new potholders. I knew about nesting but didn’t recognize that I was doing it. I thought it was the oncoming spring weather making me want to clean everything.
Well, on the bright side, if you are not dilating you are not delivering any time soon. Might as well be at home with all the comforts thereof. Presumably they did a check on the baby and it’s not in any distress. And to think a few weeks ago, we were all worried that the birth would be too early!
Well, I hope your husband will be there for you, right there in the delivery room. Just so that, right after the butt-slap, he can say, [spoiler]“So, honey, ready to start on the next one?”
What Sattua said. I mean, I get that you can’t fake your dilation, but pain is entirely subjective. Nobody can prove if you’re telling the truth about how much it hurts.
Oh well, I am just going to keep trooping along and doing what needs to be done to have a healthy safe labor. After Thursday I am starting the process of tying up loose ends at work and trying things to induce labor safely
Any suggestions?
I am already looking forward to sex and nipple stimulation. I am also considering mowing our front lawn. It only takes 30 min to mow and it needs to be done since my husband is too busy to do it during the day. LOL
