Share your smell aversions!

[Chloris33]

It's such a weird part of pregnancy isn't it? The horribly heightened sense of smell that can send you gagging. My worst is fridges, including the smell of refrigerated foods in the supermarket - ugh! Also the smell of baked goods in cafes, which is weird as I still like eating cake & bread. Sometimes I think I can smell something rank rotting in our cellar, but DH assures me there is no real smell... I'm 14 weeks, hope it (and the nausea) goes soon.

Yep, clean dishwasher here too!
Our mug cupboard
Bosses aftershave
The bathroom - I can smell the sealant they used 4 years ago when it was installed

Johnson's Baby Powder

The worst are my dog and pretty much any male. Including DS and DH. My girls smell fine though - what's that about?!

The fresh fish counter in the supermarket... bleurgh. 22 weeks and still can't walk past it without holding my breath.

Averagebear at your cutlery water

toast....the smell of it toasting used to make me gag ...still does if I catch a whiff of it in some cafe or other, but oddly not in the house

kettle...it would sit in my kitchen wafting a hot damp smell....even worse when it was actually on to boil

totally went off tea and coffee too

car heaters....although I am and always have been a dreadful passenger, travel sickness ought to be on my CV as a hobby really

and just knowing that if I went somewhere** it would smell and I would want to cry.

**somewhere....could be a new place, a place we had already been without hindrance of smell or even a place that did smell last time we went but would be alright this time.

The fridge by far the worst smell - I am not as averse to smells as I was but quite frequently on a morning just opening the fridge has me running to the bathroom.

Just about everything turned my stomach when I was going through the morning sickness phase. The worst was the smell of our medicine cabinet!! Weird because I usually quite like that smell. And I went right off tea and coffee.

I can smell all of the 'messages' the dogs leave for each other on the corners of streets and on the street furniture etc! My DH thinks I have lost the plot and may be turning into a werewolf but it's true! And it's revolting.

when I ha e been pregnant literally every smell was unbearable. I used to know an elderly woman who had a stoma and the smell of that was awful even the thought of it now makes me retch. it wasn't a shit smell it was a cloying almost sweet stench. also the smell of over ripe bananas or any rotten fruit makes me heave

Chorizo. Even thinking about it is making me feel ill... and I used to like it before!
And it's not the smell but just the sight of kale makes me want to vomit.

My own underwear after having it on for half a day. Think it's the increased discharge. DH assures me he can't smell a thing

Well that was an awkward silence...

Air freshener, and I walked around asda the other day and I could smell each individual person just walking past them and it was disgusting!x

Well that was an awkward silence...
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For me it was mostly hygiene products in the first trimester and a half - so I had to change my shampoo, body soap etc to no-fragranced ones. The main one that has persisted though is Carex hand wash - I thought I was largely over smell aversions now so put them back in the bathroom but I still gag every time I or DH uses it so have had to bin them all! I have a feeling that one might now be permanent.

And I still struggle with the smell of most of my deodorants (I tried three, including a non-perfumed one but all of them still put me off a bit) but don't want to keep buying more. Good advice I read on here early on was not to use your favourite perfume during pregnancy in case you're put off it forever afterwards.