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When I was 7-8 weeks, the smell of clam chowder made me want to throw up!
I'm only 6 weeks pregnant, I work in a restaurant, and all the smells mixing together are really starting to make me randomly gag!
We call it my "pregnancy superpower." I can smell Tic Tacs from across the room and make my husband turn his head away from me when he talks.
I also sometimes think my husband smells gross. That is unfortunate.
Totally! I think of it as a superhero power. I couldn't stand shampoo of someone sitting 2 seats away from me, even though it was a fresh scent...it was too powerful and I couldn't stand it.
Another time, someone walked up to me and just said 2 sentences and all I could reply is, "Did you just go swimming? I smell chlorine." He dropped his jaw and said, I went at 5:30 this morning but showered and washed my hair and everything. :) I miss swimming so it wasn't a bad smell.
I can't stand the smell of DF's breath. I make him brush his teeth and gargle before kissing me and I carry mints for when I can't stand it. It's not that he has bad breath normally, I can just really really smell it now that i'm pregnant.
Now my nose has been stuffed up, so thank god no smells! My last pregnancy it was the trash. My husband had to take it out constantly.
Haha, I'm the same way, I thought it would get less sensitive but if anything I've gotten more. I can tell what my husband's eaten if he's had a snack without me. I can't stand the dogs breath or the smell of their food either. Foods I usually like all of a sudden just stink so much I can't stand the thought of putting them in my mouth.
The one positive thing is like once a week I get a whiff of something floral or food and I swear I've never smelt anything so amazing in my life.
This was one of my clues that I may be pregnant. I kept smelling all sorts of things. I think the week before my BFP, I said like 20 times, OMG, do you smell that! It is still going strong now!
The other wierd thing is that I haven't had cravings but when I see an ad for food, or read a recipe, I swear I can taste the food! This will probably be bad if/when I get morning sickness!
The dog's food (a dry kibble) was the worst for me. Bad enough we switched the dogs' food entirely. Also any time DH brought home fast food for himself. The smell of the fries and/or chicken nuggets were atrocious to me from the grease they were fried in. For awhile he would eat it out in his truck before coming in the house so I didn't get nauseous.
For some reason i couldn't even look at tomatos, let alone smell them during my first trimester. And I LOVE them.
I don't know if this is good news or bad news, but by the thrid trimester you won't smell anything thanks to the swelling in your mucous membranes. LOL. I have been blowing my nose and having nose bleeds for a month
@Lozza: In my first pregnancy I couldn't STAND the smell of my husband! lol It didn't matter if he just came home from work all dirty or just got out of the shower. His smell was awful!
This pregnancy isn't as bad except I can smell dogs everywhere! It grosses me out everyday. Yuck!
When I was pregnant the smell of tuna (juices) were my worst enemy -- it was so bad that even now (4 years later) the smell still nauseates me slightly.
I liked to zest citrus fruits when I was pregnant to "cleanse my palate" (distract my nose), to me it was a fresh, "clean" smell. YMMV
My nose has been too stuffy to smell much - so I guess that's one plus to pregnancy-induced congestion! :)
I'll be honest that this thread almost made me throw up. Even thinking about all those smells makes me sick. Things that have made me gag in the past few days:
cheese, bananas, and tomatos - all things i previously loved - are NOT working for me right now. ugh. horrendous!
Mine isnt smells so much. Dont get me wrong, I have supersonic smell, but they dont really bother me. What bothers me is the sight of protiein. Seriousl, cooked meat (I can look at raw), nuts, eggs...VOM. The sight is so appaling to me I could puke everywhere.
I made my husband switch to unscented soap, even though I've always liked the Irish Spring he used! :) But my sensitivity went back to normal around 12 weeks...
I usually LOVE garlicy foods but if I even smelled garlic around 6-10 weeks I'd gag! Other things like smoke on peoples coats in stores, strong purfumes, olives, etc all made me want to get sick :( But now, 22 weeks, and most things don't bother me too much.
OMG work has been the worst. I work at a facility for kids. They just repainted the living area, which my office is off from, and that stunk. They did at least use very low VOC paints, but ughl. The janitorial staff use cleaners daily. And we get kids who wet the bed badly, and sometimes the smell is just overpowering!
i didn't have a problem with smells until two nights ago, (i'm 26 weeks pregnant) we were having christmas with my husband's mom's side of the family and his little 3 year old cousin was eating garlic goldfish pretzels and i had to ask her to sit on the other side of the room because i couldn't handle the smell lol
Ugh, I'm still scarred for life from some of the hospital smells during the first trimester. I have a distinct recollection of going into a patient's room where the father was a smoker who clearly never heard of deoderant. I dry heaved the whole time I was in that room. It was AWFUL! I can still conjure up the horror of it.
Also things that smelled normal to me before were suddenly toxic. I'm thinking specifically about the odor of my waxer's wax. Before it smelled perfectly pleasant to me, but during pregnancy I had to stop using her because I could smell the freaking wax like 3-5 days afterward. I switched to sugaring for the duration.
oh lord... nearly everything makes me gag these days.
especially the smells of Coffee, Smoke, fish, ground beef cooking, strong perfume and strangely enough ( and thankgod im not alone) the smell of my husband.
I cant wait for this to be over !!
I had to change my body wash because the smell of the one I had before was making me so sick.
Also, our handwashing soap in the bathrooms...why do they have to come in so many scents?! We tried a couple, but all made me sick. What's so hard about making unscented soap?
The fabric softener my FMIL uses drove me crazy when I was pregnant! My SO is really close with his little brother and he spent alot of time at our house, so whenever he came over I made him take his jacket and sweater off outside!! It gave me the worst headache
oh gawd...i could have never imagined how sensitive to smells i'm getting, even in just the past few days! EVERYTHING smells so strong, and so many smells make my stomach turn. it's unbearable!
i just bought a new car this weekend (well, used, but new to me). when i purchased it, it smelled fine. now i dread getting in it =/ i realized the floor mats don't exactly smell fresh, but my gawd when i get in the car i want to vom! i had an air freshener and that just made it worse. i took the mats out and i still cant drive without the windows down. my husband barely notices a thing...ugh can't wait til this part passes!
When I was pregnant, I couldn't stand the smell of a certain kind of hand soap (just normal milk and honey scent), and the smell of pizza was awful. I couldn't even look at an advertisement on tv without wanting to throw up. Thankfully, I was able to eat pizza later in pregnancy.
Oh, and kool-aid. My husband put it in leftover soda bottles. It was awful, it was so strong. I couldn't even drink it, though it tasted amazing. Pregnancy does a number on you.
It's funny how certain smells that you never really noticed before stand out to you when you are pregnant. My husband made moroccan chicken and lentils last night and the receipe calls for red vinegar. I could hardly eat dinner because all I could smell was the vinegar! My dogs food also smells really strongly to me now and I never noticed it before.
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I'm now seven weeks pregnant and while not actually puking, my GAWD, the smell sensitivity! I sent my husband with the dog to the vet because I was convinced there was something seriously wrong with the dog's mouth, his breath was so bad. And his ears stink! Our regular vet said nope, normal, so I asked our neighbor (also a vet) to take a sniff, and she seemed to think it was normal dog breath (and ears!) too. I couldn't say, "but I'm pregnant and I can't stand it!" so she thought I was just really weird, I think.
My husband drank some liquor the other night and I couldn't even be near him. Yuck.
Walking by the bathroom while my husband was peeing, I could smell the pee from the hallway -- with the door closed, from at least 10 feet away. Super sniffer!
I am now somewhat happily subsisting on cheese dip and plain bean burritos when out, fried potatoes and fruit when home.
But all in all, this week is better than last. Maybe I've just adjusted?
So, share: what smells are making you gross out?