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Morning sickness and strange taste in mouth

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Twiceamomma · 11/06/2017 11:25

Hi I'm currently 11weeks pregnant and this morning my baby decided it doesn't like coffee so it all came back up. What confused me though is straight away after it tasted like I had eaten a bar of soap?! Now about 20mins later the taste is slowly going but still there. Can anyone explain wtf happened to make coffee taste like soap? Grin

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ManifestingMyDreams · 11/06/2017 11:32

The wonderful symptoms of pregnancy 😂
I can't understand the soap taste but I know you can get a funny taste in your mouth during pregnancy. I'm currently 15 weeks and feel as though I need to keep brushing my teeth 😒

kingfishergreen · 11/06/2017 11:33

I don't know if it's also a sign of some weird medical issue, but I also found coffee tasted of soap for my first two trimesters.

Within a couple of weeks of becoming pregnant I dropped sugar from coffee it just tasted 'wrong', the next week I found out I was pregnant and suddenly couldn't face milk in coffee, by six weeks in, the smell of coffee made me heave.

In my late 3rd trimester I suddenly started fancying coffee again, I think it's nature's way of making sure the baby gets what it needs and cutting down on potentially poisonous substances.

I also vaped at the point of becoming pregnant, but within four weeks (before I'd done the test) I couldn't face that either.

Twiceamomma · 11/06/2017 11:38

It's so strange this time round has been worse than it was with my daughter. With her I didn't drink coffee but this one seems to hate everything and I'm struggling to keep anything down to the point I'm making fruit and veg smoothies just for nutrients . I'm going to book a drs appt tomorrow about it but the soap taste is just freaking weird lol x

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kingfishergreen · 11/06/2017 11:47

When in doubt it's always worth asking the doc. I know some people will say that gp surgeries are full enough, but I always think what if something was wrong and I didn't check it out.

With DD I couldn't face any veg at all (I am usually a big veg lover) broccoli taste of mud, just the thought of carrots made me heave. I ate ham and mustard sandwiches, a lot.

Natsku · 11/06/2017 11:52

Because pregnancy is weird and annoying! When I was pregnant with DD coffee started to taste so bad I couldn't drink it at all (and prior to that I was a 6 cupsish a day drinker of naice filter coffee) and haven't been able to ever since. My mum had the same problem but with tea when she was pregnant with my brother. And right now I'm starting to have the problem with Earl Grey tea so I've stopped drinking it straight away to hopefully avoid it being a permanent issue!

2ducks2ducklings · 11/06/2017 13:43

It's all good fun! I went off tea and coffee weeks ago and, in fact, really struggled to find anything that I wanted to drink. I resorted to tomatoes for their juice (although, they're now out of favour due to memorable night of vomiting this week) or chocolate milk (billions of calories but justified in my head by the extra calcium). Whatever I eat or drink leaves a horrible taste in my mouth so I was getting through a stupid amount of chewing gum every day until that bloated me so much I was in agony. Now I chew a mint antacid after everything. It's hard going and I really thought I'd be over this by now. Although it is much better than it was.
I can't really offer any advice op, just eat/drink whatever you can and try to take a little comfort in the fact that it usually passes in the next few weeks.

Xanadu44 · 11/06/2017 14:11

It's completely normal. I got it loads at first (I'm 40 weeks now!) it was soapy at first and then more metallic. I actually woke up with it this morning.

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elio · 11/06/2017 15:17

I have the weird taste, for me it was my first symptom, I felt like I kept needing to clean my teeth, it's like being hyper aware of your own saliva and it's horrible! At 20 weeks it's a bit better but still have lots of food aversions, mostly to onions, garlic, anything cooked in an oven, can eat cold / raw stuff more easily. Can't wait for baby to be born so it goes away!

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elio · 12/06/2017 20:52

Yes, sadly I think that's all it is!

2017Babyontheway · 13/06/2017 13:41

I'm 23 weeks and up until about 20 weeks I had a taste in my mouth like I had been sucking on a 2p coin!! It was disgusting!! That and tiredness were the only symptoms I had though, no sickness and food adversions luckily!

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