PREGNANT OMEGAS WHO ARE NESTINGGGGGG HEADCANONS
Yessss! Nesting is utterly adorable. Thank you for the ask!
Context: I headcanon Japanese omegas as nesting less often than their Western counterparts, an adaptation that arose out of Japan’s disgustingly humid summers and the tendency for mold to grow anywhere and everywhere.
From the beginning to mid-pregnancy, the omega will have a habit of cleaning the nest up every morning, and dragging the sheets and laundry back into order at night. The omega is either:
a) very neat and clean, and cannot stand the nest just sitting there all day, filled with dirty laundry
b) feels guilty that they’ve stolen all the sheets, and their mate’s closet is dwindling because they haven’t done the laundry
It’s exhausting work, especially as they progress in their pregnancy. It gets easier when their family grows, though, because their pups and mate will help put everything away.
Omegas especially like to make a game out of it, to teach their pups responsibility and good habits.
Sometimes an omega will just curl up in frustration and maybe cry because they got it just perfect the night before, and now it’s just not right.
Their mate comes in, sensing their distress, and tries to help, but that only makes it worse.
They end up in a cuddle session, with the mate taking a stack of towels or clothes and rubbing their scent on it, then handing it to their omega to arrange in the nest.
Their foreign friends are all “Why all the stress?? Just leave it??”
Like, technically, in cities with apartments that have air conditioning, it’s not necessary, it’s just an engrained habit.
But out in the countryside. Oh, no. No air conditioning whatsoever, just fans. The idea of leaving it there is repulsive to many, who want a nice clean environment for when their pups are born.
Because less importance is placed on the nest, Japanese omegas are a little less protective of it. They’ll let anyone familiar just flop down in it without asking, at least until their last month of pregnancy.
For their first pregnancy, many omegas won’t start wanting to nest until the middle of the second trimester or later, and it worries the hell out of them because a lot of books say it should happen earlier.
First pregnancies also mean most omegas don’t know how to build a proper nest, so when they get the urge they sit there in a puddle of blankets and pillows stewing over it for hours. Their mates are appropriately amused, find it adorable, and eventually go over to offer their help (which is usually denied out of a sense of pride like excuse me are you telling me I don’t know how to be an omega because their alpha/beta mate knows even less haha).
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