Meaning & use
nesting in pregnancy
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Meaning
phraseuncountableinformal
A pregnant woman's urge to clean and organize her home before the baby is born.
Grammar: Used as an uncountable idea: nesting in pregnancy is common. Do not say a nesting in pregnancy.
Patterns
- nesting in pregnancy
- experience nesting in pregnancy
Many women report nesting in pregnancy during the last few weeks before delivery.
Her nesting in pregnancy led her to wash all the baby clothes twice.
Some doctors say nesting in pregnancy is a sign that labor is near.
Common combinations
- sign of nesting
- Suddenly cleaning the kitchen at midnight can be a sign of nesting.
- nesting instinct
- The nesting instinct made her rearrange the nursery every day.
- late pregnancy nesting
- Late pregnancy nesting often involves preparing the baby's room.
Synonyms and how they differ
- nesting instinct
- A shorter phrase for the same urge; it can also describe animals preparing a nest.
Word family
- nest verb
- To make or live in a nest; in pregnancy, to prepare the home for a baby.
- nesting noun
- The activity of preparing a nest or home.
Practice
She spent the whole weekend cleaning and organizing the nursery, which her midwife called ______.
Choose one answer.
Nesting in pregnancy is the urge to clean and prepare the home before the baby comes. Morning sickness is nausea, labor is the birth process, and a contraction is a tightening of the uterus.
Make it your own
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