Are my aversions weird?? What are yours?

[CocoHoney]

Hi ladies,

I feel like I have more aversions than I do cravings atm. Currently 9+3 with first baby.

The smell of baby wipes (particularly mamia from Aldi)... Yuck!
The smell of toast... Yuck!
The smell of coffee... Yuuuuuuck!
The smell of cigarettes... Yuuuuuuck!!!
The smell of the oven... Yuck!
The sight of my old ecig... Yuck!
The smell of my new herbal essences shampoo an conditioner... Yuck!
The sight of bread, ham, cheese, anything with breadcrumbs!

And now my partner and stepson, slightly lol! Am I weird or are these normal??
What are some of yours?

xx

I had no cravings and my list of aversion got longer and longer each week. This included:
Mince, chicken, bread, too much milk, tomato anything, smoke, coffee and tea (don't drink them but couldn't enter a coffee shop or pass one if the door was open, peppers, rice, chocolate (in the first 12 weeks), pomegranates, bananas, apples, burgers (week 34.. almost threw up), orange juice (weeks 17-26) and my DH's usual deodorant. We had to get him a new one that I could stomach. He still uses it now.

Oh, and ginger. Made me really ill. It was horrendous.

In no particular order my pregnancy no food list was:

Turkey
Ham
Beef
Alcohol

I also developed a hatred of sushi and smoked fish as well.

I didnt really get any cravings but i went off a lot of things:
Bacon frazzle.crisps yuck
Spicy food yuck
Garlic yuck

Husband's breath after he'd eaten a subway yuck yuck yuck

For the first 12-14 weeks of both of my pregnancies, I couldn’t stand chocolate which was strange was I normally love it. It was Easter too so that made it even worse!!!

I knew I was pregnant the third time because of the strength of my aversion to coffee. Didn’t even need to do a pregnancy test. I had hyperemesis every time and I still, 12 years on, feel nauseous at the sight of The Mirror newspaper (a friend who was staying with us at the time gave me her free copy from work to read whilst I was laid up in bed) and bottles of Herbal Essences shampoo. Plus numberous food and drink smells. It’s a very strange thing.

It is now 18 yrs since I experienced this, but the horror has never gone away. The smell of the inside of the fridge was unspeakable when I was pg. I had to wrap a tea-towel around my face whenever I wanted to open it, even if just to take the milk out. God, it was disgusting. Once I'd given birth, I couldn't smell the fridge at all.

Reminds me that my mum (who had HG with all of her DC) was pg with two of us at Christmas. She still can't bear the smell of real Christmas trees.

Scardanelli- yes I'd forgotten I also had that with the inside of the fridge. It smelt like gone off cheese Every time I opened it!

When I was pregnant with DD, the smell of my deodorant and softener (extra long-lasting) made me feel sick. I had to send hubby out for Dove instead.
Coffee was another, as was meat in the beginning, then basically anything greasy.

Really hard grapes are fine but soft grapes, even slightly soft, make me bork. They taste like wee 🤢

Also any Sure deodorant catches the back of my throat and makes me want to vomit. Mitchum is the only one I can use.

With dd1, Lollo rosso lettuce growing in my garden - dh had to dig them up and chuck them as I couldn't look out my window at them. Innocent smoothies with ds2. Oh and Lidl- could stand its smell or even drive past it!!

You got the herbal essences too?? Lol it's crazy isn't it!

All remotely healthy food.
The colour pale yellow... STILL hate it now and my baby's three months.

First trimester couldn’t stand the smell of cooking/hot food.

All pregnancy I’ve been off cheese and meat, anything heavy/fatty. Definitely got a preference for simple carby things - toast, fruit, cereal.

Currently (28 weeks) I just don’t feel like eating anything. My bump is already huge and I don’t seem to get hungry, there’s no space! The thought of eating something like cheese on toast makes me want to gag. I’m getting through pints and pints of milk though.

I completely went off tea even though I usually drinks loads of it! back to drinking it now but not as much as before. Most food smells made me feel sick tbh, and I couldn't ever feed the dog and I'd have to literally run off to be sick. Craved ice and freezing cold drinks constantly. And in the last trimester all I did was eat alllllll the foods lol

With my boy it was coffee and the smell of bacon 🥓, I was gutted when I first got nauseas over the smell of bacon as it was my favourite meat and I’d heard that a lot of people never recover.

With my girl was eggs and crisps. Crisps was one of my favourite things too,

I'm 10+2 and it's only in the last 2 days I haven't turned my nose up at everything I'm offered. I have been living off belvita soft baked and cheese sandwiches.

I was thinking of starting a post like this! I am 14+4 and honestly I sat and cried yesterday (sad I know) because I made a lasagne which I couldn't eat, then ordered calzone and chips which I left as well .

I wish I had cravings so I could at least eat something I enjoy! I seem to have gone off EVERYTHING! The only thing I have finished and quite enjoyed was a curry from our local Indian restaurant and we can't afford one of those everyday!

My worst is any pork products (and I normally love sausage and bacon especially, ooh and pork and stuffing sandwiches!) and fish. Went for lunch with DM the other day, her scampi ruined my entire meal as it was all I could smell

Please tell me it will go away soon?!?!

with DS my aversions were:
Coke (which I cried about because it is my fav drink)
Coffee & Tea (think that is pretty standard)
All Pork (whether that is cooked or uncooked)
Raw meat
Spinach
Spring Onions
Stir Frys
Bins

With current pregnancy:
Toast
Brown Bread
Bins
The microwave
Pork again, especially sausages this time
Raw meat
Mince meat, even cooked

I am struggling with veg too, boiled veg that is. Roast veg seems manageable

I couldn't stomach veg when I was pregnant with DS1. I went from being a veggie who lived on salads to eating stodge for months.

I also went right off tea. Still can't drink it 13 years later!

Weirdly, I didn't really have anything like that with DS2.

@SpannerH Aww it's awful isn't it. I'm the same with pork too, used to love bacon! Seems like it's all the stuff I usually like plus a few random ones

I’m 22+3 and still having aversions;
Texture of halloumi
Texture of chicken (gives me the boak)
Both my mum and mil’s perfume
Smell of coffee
Smell of cheese
Also my husbands snoring has become unbearable to me during this pregnancy so I always end up in the spare room 😠 also the grog noises he makes when he’s in the shower 🤢 maybe just an aversion to him in general at the moment haha.

With my first one:

• 2 weeks of no meat, idea of eating it was too much
• body shop shower gels
• our washing liquid, had to switch brands and re-wash neraly everything

Currently:

• had 3 weeks of being off random foods. So Monday chicken was ok, Tuesday idea of chicken made me sick
• went off tea, which is the only hot drink I drink
• cannot change dirty nappies (and I am so going to stick to it till the rest of pregnancy )

Of course, because I am pregnant I cannot stop thinking of sandwich with turkey/chicken, camembert and cranberry sauce :(.

From the first pregnancy I do remember that all aversions got better eventually, but all the chemical things (like shower gel and washing liquid) I was not able to go back to, even 2,5 years after they started. I lost hope now.

Oh I forgot my worst one, not food related! @SilverbytheSea made me realise haha.

My OH CHEWING! or slurping, but mainly chewing. Suddenly crisps sounds like rocks against rocks. Yogurts with crunchy bits the slurping and crunching together and I can't say anything otherwise I have an attitude problem (plus he can't really help it bless him!)

When I was expecting DD, I had HG until about 20 weeks. Pretty much any smell at all made me vomit, up until the point I finally got some magic anti-sickness pills. The only smells that gave be any relief at all was (weirdly) medical/chemical ones. Bleach was a good one. Or just walking into any Boots store (well, up until I was so sick I couldn't leave the house, anyway).

But - even with the pills, and even after the HG went away, I couldn't bear the smell of garlic. It made me feel (though not actually be) so, so sick, right through to the end of my pregnancy. It was gone by the time I got home from the hospital. Such a strange sensation.