nesting instincts
Preparing the nursery
Nesting instincts are urges to prepare a home environment, especially the drive pregnant women often feel to clean, organize, and ready their living space before giving birth.
The term borrows from birds' compulsion to build nests for their eggs.
More loosely, nesting instincts describe any domestic settling-in impulse: My nesting instincts kicked in after we signed the lease.
- broodingAnxiously dwelling on something
- nurturingSupportive care-giving
- maternalOf or like mothers
- mother henOverprotective caretaker type
- featheringAdjusting blade pitch horizontally
cozy · cozy corner · home · warmth · safe haven · eggs · shelter · burrowing · protective · preparing · twigs · den · womb · mothering · baby bump · settling · hatching · comfort
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Craving for distant places
restlessness · itchy feet · rootlessness · nomadism · perpetual motion
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