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Smell aversions

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Hbs21 · 14/09/2019 16:31

Just looking for some reassurance really!

I'm 9 weeks pregnant and I can't stand the smell of my house. It makes me sick and it's really getting me down. Has anyone else experienced this in previous pregnancies and did it go away?

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ShirleyPhallus · 14/09/2019 16:32

I had a thread on this recently. Second trimester and it’s got worse for me. Now sounds make me sick too

PuffHuffle5 · 14/09/2019 16:32

Yes and yes. For me it was just certain areas of the house - I have no idea what I was smelling! That and the nausea began to subside at about 14/15 weeks.

PuffHuffle5 · 14/09/2019 16:34

Now sounds make me sick too

Yep. And I really struggled with watching anything in HD as well, it was just so vivid Confused it’s like all your senses are just on overdrive.

AloeVeraLynn · 14/09/2019 16:34

Snap. Its driving me mental. We have some of those airwick candles in the living room and if I get a whiff of them it turns my stomach. Ditto the smell of the washing powder. Bleurgh.

Pinkflipflop85 · 14/09/2019 16:54

It is a rather annoying side effect of pregnancy! I remember being absolutely repulsed by the smell of gravy for about the first 20 weeks.

LiveFatsDieYoGnu · 14/09/2019 20:41

Yes, I’m 18 weeks now and it’s easing but some things still really turn my stomach - certain soaps and floral smells in particular. You’re not alone!

DramaAlpaca · 14/09/2019 20:44

In my first pregnancy, the smell of the train I commuted on to work made me feel sick. As soon as I got off I had to bolt into the station loos and of course the smell of them made it even worse... Thankfully it disappeared in the second trimester and I didn't have it in subsequent pregnancies.

JonnyPocketRocket · 14/09/2019 20:44

I had to change our washing powder because the smell of it suddenly started turning my stomach. There's also a certain mens cologne or aftershave or something that I think must have recently come on the market and become wildly popular - I'd never smelled it until a couple months ago and suddenly every third man seems to be wearing it. I don't know the name of it but it makes me heave.

MrsL2016 · 14/09/2019 20:47

I thought I hated the smell of my house when pregnant because I moved in when I was 7 weeks and it just didn't smell like my house. But reading this has been a real eye opener. I think my senses were definitely in overdrive for the first trimester. It settled down for me after that, but at the time I thought it was because the house started to smell like ours.

Preggosaurus9 · 14/09/2019 20:52

Yep. I hid in the bedroom with the window open for all 1st trimester. Going downstairs only to vomit. 3rd trimester now and still get nausea from DH aftershave, body wash, had to stop using fabric conditioner.. changed washing powder too. DH is a bit pissed off he's been banned from using aftershave and spray deodorants, but we discovered Sanex and Simple brands are good for fragrance free alternatives.

It will go away once baby arrives. Do what you gotta do til then!

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