Weird things (not food) that bring back the feeling of morning sickness

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I know people sometimes find that if they smell a food that triggered pregnancy sickness, they can still feel sick years later.

When I was pregnant with DD in 2020 there was a specific song that was on the radio a lot and I still cannot hear it now without feeling sick!

Does anyone else have any non-food things that bring back the sicky feeling?

Toothpaste! Still makes me gag to this day youngest is 9!!!

Oh and watching rick stein in India series. I love rick and cookery programmes... but it was n in my height of pregnancy puke fest.
Still can't watch it now 😬

Strong, non specific (think bahama breeze type named scents) candles or wax melts. Still like food based one’s but anything other than that is instant nausea and headache.

Comfort Pure and Fairy washing powder/liquid. Both I used before pregnant and even now the smells makes me heave

Cinnamon spice that everything stinks of at Christmas! I had to throw up in a garden centre when we went to their Christmas Extravaganza exhibition. I still retch when I smell it now and DS is 7.

Someone at work bought me some cinnamon spice scented candles which I could smell through the wrapping paper. I had to hide them in the bin at work because I couldn't stand to put them anywhere near me.

Also, the Carly Rae Jepson song "Call Me Maybe". It was always playing on the radio and travelling used to make my sickness worse, Even now I have to turn it off.

There was a kids tv programme called Abney and Teal that I watched loads of with my toddler when I couldn't move off the couch due feeling ill. Whenever it came on, long after my baby was born, would make me feel sick.

A certain album I was listening to 32 years ago, brings all that sickness feeling back now…

Plus learning ciroc dancing and all that spinning around, 18 years ago, was hellish …

Amsterdam!

I was there for work when I was around 7/8 weeks pregnant with my first. Even now thinking about the place makes me feel sick.

The smell of blue Comfort fabric conditioner. She's 31 now.

Eurgh the Lidl perfume which was a dupe for a Dior one. Loved it at first. Never want to smell that again.

The smell of Yeast fermenting, guess that is food?
And some scents of candles by Yankee. Stony cove and the cherry one!

Lenor the blue one and cheap carpet. Our flat was on the market and we were having some new cheap carpet laid the morning I was sick for the first time.

Oh my god I thought I was mad that some things triggered my morning sickness that weren't food 🤣 I have finally found MY people 🙌
Lenor spring awakening and fairy fabric conditioner are absolute no nos 🤮 also the smell of a hot room in the summer - when it has a slightly sweet and musty smell. Very random to try and explain but absolutely horrific 😂

Toothbrushing. Or specifically, the toothpaste building up in my mouth before I spit. My morning sickness wasn't even that bad!

The sound of mint imperials rattling in a tin. We had a tinful of mints in the office and I kept thinking it was the biscuit tin till I heard the rattle and caught a whiff of the mints through the tin.

Any cooking smell outdoors makes me feel a bit icky. Memories of when I could smell dinner cooking or washing machines going in all the houses between the bus stop and my house.

The toaster. It can catch me unawares even 18 years later. Love eating toast but hate smelling it cooking. I would hide upstairs sobbing with my head under the pillow if anyone put the toaster on when I was pregnant.

Individually wrapped cheese. I couldn't bear to cut cheese for my toddler so bought cheese portions which I'd unwrap at arms length trying not to touch the cheese inside. I don't think I could open a "rectangle cheese" ever again now!

DPs car which is quite problematic.
It had a leak and smelt really damp. Can still smell it but he insists it doesn’t. Feel sick every time I get in.

A certain shade of brown clothes. I had a pair of brown trousers and top I wore a lot in early pregnancy and even thinking about them induces nausea.

Those two notes on Netflix. Dja djuh. It makes me want to vom. I watched Call my Agent in the weird nauseous insomnia of the first trimester and I don’t think I can bring myself to watch it again!

The kids programme The Herbs. I felt queasy but never actually sick for about six months. I can still remember lying on the sofa feeling awful whilst she watched the video cassette of it!

The theme tune to Thomas the Tank Engine (which I love) and the one for Me Too (Granny Murray) on CBeebies 🙃

Brushing my teeth. It made me feel so sick when pregnant in 2020, and still makes me retch every single time now.

When pregnant in lockdown, I used to watch “what’s on your plate” on cbeebies, around lunchtime, when DH would make me a lovely meal and I’d eat none of it. Hearing the theme tune now makes me feel 🤢

Couldn't bear the smell or taste of coffee through three pregnancies. Decades later I can't drink coffee first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. It's tea first thing and coffee with toast. Coffee after lunch and dinner, but otherwise tea.

Fake apple smells and bin bags. Still set me off now and then.

Gilmore Girls watched it in the first trimester and as soon as I see it now I feel sick!

There's a particular shower gel that I just cannot use or smell on anyone else. DH carried on using it for a while when we thought morning sickness had passed as we didn't want to waste it but really it was not worth it 🤢 still would never buy it again

Calvin Klein Euphoria. Anything that smells similar to it. I bought all new toiletries that smelled like it because I had associations of bad sickness with things I already had, but then that made it onto the list. At one point the noise of the PS4 coming on would set me off. It was so bad my brain just latched on to anything. I once laid on the bed breastfeeding the baby, on a bright blue skied day with the window open and a wind waffed in and it set me off because of the same association making machinery in my head. I'd spent so much time in bed unable to do anything except crawl to the toilet to vomit.