Often, when talking about the human being, there is a tendency to differentiate between animals and humans, as if some time ago we had ceased to be. However, there are many features that show that, despite everything, we are still animals (mammals, to be more exact) and among these features there is a particularly curious one that seems to occur in many pregnant women: The instinct of the nest.
He nest instinct it is, neither more nor less, the need that appears in the mother to prepare the nest in which the young will live before their birth.
Something similar happens in humans. A few days before delivery, the woman begins to feel that her physical forces multiply and the urgent need to have everything ready appears. Said vulgarly: about to give birth and gives you everything to do.
Some women devote these energies to leaving the house more or less ready, ready barges and tidy clothes. Others, on the other hand, feel the need to go a little further and it is not strange to see some mothers making the bottom of the kitchen cabinets, scratching between the tiles or shining the glass of the entire floor.
The birth is near
Be that as it may, this increase in energy means that childbirth is near (a matter of a few days) and that extra energy is something like the injection of forces to prepare to be a mother.
There are women who explain that, even if they were rather disorderly, they felt before the birth the imperative need to have everything collected and prepared.
Resist or get carried away?
Before him nest instinct There are recommendations that say it is best to resist the temptation to leave everything completely prepared to reserve strength for childbirth.
Personally I think the ideal is to have a little common sense. A pregnant woman, in the last days of gestation cleaning the kitchen bottoms is not a very usual picture and would almost dedicate that energy to go for a walk to help the baby to position and lower a little and would even save me a little for childbirth (if it is possible to keep strength).
But I am aware that many women prefer to get carried away, do what their body and instinct asks them to do and they don't drop their rings for it. So every woman who manages that energy as she considers best.
Did you feel the nest instinct?
Finally, and to know a little more about this subject, I ask you, moms, if you felt the nest instinct and, if so, what did you do.
