What’s the Nesting Instinct?

Traditionally the Nesting Instinct focused on cleaning and preparing for your baby’s arrival, which is totally fine but… let’s try to harness the nesting instinct energy to prepare YOU for a smoother delivery and postpartum.

Here are practical tips to help you prepare as you hunker down the last few weeks of pregnancy in preparation for your upcoming birth. Think of it as a pregnancy bubble if you will! There is so much information coming at you during your pregnancy from social media to well meaning friends, family and co-workers and sometimes the occasional unsolicited advice from strangers (insert eye roll) that stepping into your pregnancy bubble to focus on YOU and only you might just be what is needed!

• Watch videos of positive birth stories, include a variety: water birth, unmedicated birth, epidural birth, birth center, homebirth

• Read or listen to podcasts of positive birth stories, limit the negativity!

• Decide who you want or don’t want to visit postpartum, allow only the folks that will lift you up postpartum!

• Plan a meal train for postpartum, family/friends sign up to drop off/deliver meals, everyone picks a day!