Why does everything smell like damp underpants?

[tinymeteor]

I'm 6 weeks pregnant with my second, and my nose is malfunctioning. There's a weird smell in the background ALL the time - sort of a damp laundry, musty clay, back of the fridge kind of funk. I've also got a major aversion to ripe fruit, toothpaste and my own wee, which smells like the mystery pong x 10. It's hormones, isn't it? I have a pregnancy aversion to my own pregnancy hormones. Anyone else had this?

I'm 6 weeks tomorrow and everything smells rank to me too I keep trying to "switch my nose off" so I can get on with normal life

It's so distracting isn't it! Not to mention stomach-turning.

The worst smell is my own underwear and discharge. DH assures me he can't smell a thing. I feel clean after a shower but after about an hour I think I smell again. Every time I pull my underwear down to go to the loo I smell it. So gross!

Oh my god I was just thinking the exact same!! I feel like I can't clean enough!!

Ohh glad it's not just me, I hate the smell of my knickers at the moment! (As well as the dog, nappies, my kitchen.... the list goes on!)

I'm starting to wonder if perhaps I'm leaking tiny amounts of pee, and if it's drying in my pants and causing the smell?!?! But I think it's more likely it's increased discharge.

I'm afraid it doesn't stop.
I'm due any day and still think I absolutely stink on a daily basis when DH tells me otherwise.
Food stinks, DH stinks, clothes stink.

Good luck ladies!

My own breath is another smell I can't stand just now. Make my poor DH brush his teeth several times a day too

Oh shit bandbsmummy, this had better not go on for the full nine months! (Good luck with the impending event btw )

Last time the bloodhound nose was just a first-trimester problem for me, but then last time I didn't have all these aversions. I could sniff out a red bull at 20 paces, but I didn't have this lingering "eau de wheelie bin" following me everywhere. Ugh.

I've been at a wedding today and had to pop home after the food to have a shower because I thought I smelt. DH assures me I didn't.

you can blame those pregnancy hormones again. In this case, estrogen can make every little scent that wafts your way feel like an all-out assault on your nostrils. part of motherhood you see :P wont last long! trust me :)

I am the same with toothpaste! i literally gag and wretch every time i brush my teeth even to the point of being sick. Glamorous! 😂

Everything smells like overripe bananas here. I have also changed knickers during the day, kicked DH out of bed to reclean his teeth as I couldn't stand his breath and cannot go anywhere near anyone smoking.