Wednesday, May 17, 2006

I guess I am nesting




http://www.flylady.net/pages/begin_babysteps.asp
Okay,have you ever had something happening to you physically, like pregnancy, and you read in certain books on the condition a statement that predicts how you will be acting at each stage? It also happens when some lovely well meaning (or sometimes not so well meaning) friend or family member predicts your or someone else's reaction, or action to a situation or event. Sometimes you you are fine with what ever the experts, friend, or family member says, sometimes you find your self indignant and think, "That is totally ludicrous, I would never do that! That certainly won't be me!" (think Kristy Alley in "Look Who's Talking" when she reads about post pardom depression and says, "Well that won't happen to me!" and the next shot is of her sitting in her pj's crying on the sofa)
When I first read about the "nesting syndrome" that you are suppose to have as you get closer to the birth, I though to myself, "Yeah sure, I can barely motivate myself to go to work and do daily cleaning, there is no way I am going to be scrubbing windows or the anything else I can get to hold still". Well, it's time to cut to the shot of me scrubbing the windows. It all started innocently enough, I did my weekly cleaning and noticed that maybe I should clean the bottom of the fridge...The windows...All the glass and mirrors in the house no matter how small...And maybe clean the carpet with our carpet cleaner. I love a clean house, so it's not the cleaning that bothers me really, it's the fact that they say this happens right before you give go into labor! I am also a planner and I have planned to work right up to my due date and this is really ruining my plans!
http://www.enchantedspirit.org/FengShui/4338.php
http://www.enchantedspirit.org/FengShui/4498.php
I can see me now going into labor on the job and trying to hang in there till 7:15 before I punch out and head to the 3rd floor to deliver. "really it's not so bad, the first stage of labor can take hours" funny I choose to believe that part of the book as it serves my purposes. But the portions that I do not like are, of course totally wrong and stupid.
Worst case senario, I will have raw fingers but a super clean home so I guess it's not such a bad thing after all. I will just have to keep my legs crossed for awhile and hope the "right before labor" part of the book is totally stupid and wrong!

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