Nesting.....slowly but surely

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I am with you sistah!! And my dh is just as bad. It is driving me nuts and I feel my diastasis opening every time I bend down and pick up toys.

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When my water broke before my first birth (at home) I started frantically cleaning and ordering dh to clean the tub, etc. I didn't have a toddler but the baby was early and I had just stopped work and didn't have much time to nest. It's not so much that I'm ashamed of my housekeeping, it's just that I truly prefer being in a clean and tidy home - especially for a big event like birth. I am really sensitive to the aesthetics of my environment and it bugged me that I had to start out life with a new baby with a dirty and messy apt and no food in the fridge.

I have a plan this time. The only way to ensure that things will be sorta under control is to clean and tidy the home every day in the last week before my EDD. That will be my priority at that point. If I need help to do that I plan to ask for it. I am not a neat freak or anal but it's just something that I know will help me with an optimal birth experience - who cares if someone thinks I'm crazy?? I will have to let go of the toy clutter a bit because even tidying every day won't take care of that, but I'm seriously considering hiding some of the more annoying toys that cause clutter and don't get played with that much.

I hear ya, mama! I do daycare in my home, so I do feel like all I do is pickup/clean all day. But, what I have found is that the toy room is a constant mess, and I don't care, at the end of the day, I just close the door. And in the family room, where they play, I have 3 different plastic totes, and all the toys get thrown in there, quick clean up. Now I don't feel like everything is such a mess!! And I *try* to do one cleaning thing everyday, today I vaccuumed, yesterday I scrubbed floors, and I do one load of laundry everyday, so at least I don't feel so behind.

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Me too! Although I'm even more worried what my folks will think.
I just can't keep up with the regular stuff, much less make progress on the "Spring cleaning." I am a terrible housekeeeper! What a disaster here!

My goodness, I'm not alone.

I'm an anally organized/clean person even while not pregnant. Nesting just pushes me over into OCD mode - LOL.
And I have an almost 4 year old and a near 2 year old undoing my work all day long as well.

We're also having a homebirth, and I don't want the house messy either. Mostly though because it will drive me nuts
when I'm supposed to be resting postpartum, and I'll want to get up and clean it. Also because with visitors coming
and going I don't want it to be a wreck (which I'm sure it will be anyways since DH is horrible at keeping tidy
and if he's got the boys I don't even want to imagine how bad it will get).

I spend most of the day trying to keep the house looking decent, and then 're-set' it to normal once the boys are
in bed. I also am trying to do a bunch of things on my to do list all day (clean fridge, laundry, organize closet,
get birth stuff ready, re-arrange bedroom for baby, stuff like that). So I feel like I get nowhere everyday since
I'll check one thing off on my to do list and the boys have destroyed another room in the meantime...ugh.

I've been super uncomfortable, having lots of groin pain/pressure, back pain and I'm exhausted (anemic) - so I
always feel like I'm just wasting time and energy to boot.

I did hire a housecleaner, which is so nice. She does all the deep cleaning that I really want done, but am in
too much pain to do myself. I do all the tidy-ing, organizing, day to day cleaning. I wish she could come every 5 days
but that'd be too expensive for us. I also sucked it up and hired people to steam clean the carpets for me,
rather than trying to do it myself with our kirby. Finally DH has got me to start delegating things out, but
it's still so hard. I also made a bunch of meals at Dream Dinners since I just wasn't getting the ammount done
on my own that I wanted to for after baby.

My to do list is still a mile long, but DH has been helping a lot on the weekends with the boys so hopefully this
weekend I'll be able to finish it up and just relax and save my nesting energy for the birth. One can hope right...