I hope it doesn’t go against the humorous grain of your site to say that I think as women we can come up with a better word than “nesting” to describe the compelling urges we often feel near the end of pregnancy. In “Jewish” we can call it “zofia halichot beita” ; women are blessed with the ability (and responsibility) to foresee what’s needed at home. Knowing that we will be unavailable to take care of all kinds of things after the birth because we hope and pray to be totally busy with caring for baby (and ourselves) is wonderful and is nothing like being “bird brained”.

Thanks for listening.