Just list me sh*t with DH

[WeGoAgain123]

I've just about had enough of the huge list of pregnancy symptoms i'm getting.

I'm now 16 weeks and still feel absolutely awful despite being on medication. The final straw came today.

For some weird reason I cannot beat the smell of cooked bell peppers, an ingredient that my hubby has for his breakfast each morning.

For the most part he hasn't eaten them much over thr last two months but this morning he did and the entire house stinks of them, and still does now 8 hours later.

I work from home so there's no getting away from it, but I've just gone out to post office and returned to the house and the smell and just totally lost my shit.

I've taken myself to bed crying as I cannot bear being in the house with this smell but I've come in here to the smell of our recently oiled woodwork with linseed oil and it's the same but different.

My DH is apologetic but I can't stop being angry because I told him over and over that the smell is horrific to me.

I just need to calm down and overload this somewhere so as not to get into a massive argument about it with him. I know it's ridiculous as he obviously doesn't understand how sick it make me feel but I can't help feeling so angry.

I'm basically so down about all the pregnancy symptoms to be honest that I think I'm going to explode at anyone or anything at the minute. I hoped I would be feeling better by now as I know the third trimester is going to be full of SPD pain like my other 2 pregnancies ao was just hoping for some nice weeks in between

In the nicest possible way You need to get a grip, get the febreeze out and stop 'losing your shit'.

Well, while I'd say you're definitely over reacting, I do sympathise. I gave up eating bananas at breakfast at my desk when my colleague got pregnant and couldn't stand the taste. And I'm not her partner....

He needs to stop cooking and eating peppers for breakfast.

@ZeroFuchsGiven

In the nicest possible way You need to get a grip, get the febreeze out and stop 'losing your shit'.

I know I'm being ridiculous, it's so out of character for me in normal circumstances and I know he's trying his hardest to accommodate my HG in all other ways.

It's just I can't handle any strong smells, I've had air fresheners out (that turn me stomach too but nowhere near as much) but thr pepper smell just wins out over everything. There just must be something in the smell of the cooked peppers that my pregnant body absolutely hates.

It's just infuriating that on top of thr I helped vomiting and sickness I've got this to have to get over.

No one else can still smell it in the family, but it's just still so overpowering for me.

Anyway, I'm on the third floor now with all the windows open. Hopefully tomorrow the smell will be gone and ALL a pepper are banned in the house for the next 5 months

Yanbu if you haven't been pg and developed smell aversions you don't understand. Vom

Well, you did lose your shit, but I think it's totally understandable! I'd have been enraged if my partner did this to me for the sake of eating a pepper. You're making all the sacrifices and doing all the pregnancy work for both of you; the least he can do is not eat peppers.

I totally get you. When I was pregnant with my first I couldn't touch lettuce, eat it, or even think of it without vomiting. Even if I thought I could smell it (now I'm not pregnant I couldn't get an odour if lettuce if I tried) I'd be retching.

I Do think some of it was psychological as how strong can a pepper or lettuce really smell but once it's stick it's heals in you have to really mentally get rid of it.

I'd be raging to tbh. If you're allowed to get away with anything 'unreasonable' it definitely is when you're pregnant and stifling. You're growing a whole other life inside of you. The least he could do is not have peppers for a little while.