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‘Nesting’ During Pregnancy Is a Real Thing

Readying the home for a newborn “helps us feel prepared for a time in our life when there’s little we can do to prepare,” says one psychologist.
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The rug had been in Pruszcz Gdański for more than a month. I’d been checking up on it daily, via the shipping company’s website, but nothing was changing. Status: Originating post is preparing to dispatch this mail piece. An insomniac night of online reconnaissance indicated that the rug’s situation was a common one, since apparently many items traveling through this particular town in northern Poland are packed into large shipping containers before being loaded onto a boat. According to one forum post, “The container may just sit until it’s full.”

I was in no particular.

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