- PrncssDva
- 6 years ago
- Wedding: October 2010
OMG!! I smell everything and many things bother me now. I have had to stop wearing perfume. Am I the only one?
OMG!! I smell everything and many things bother me now. I have had to stop wearing perfume. Am I the only one?
A seriously superhuman sense of smell was the first symptom I had…I was chopping up leftover Thanksgiving turkey to make Darling Husband a sandwich for lunch and the smell made me sick. And it just got worse from there. Wish I could tell you it’ll fade soon, but mine hasn’t.
Probably kind of random, but do any of you ladies know why sense of smell is typically heightened?
YES!!! Darling Husband calls me his little hound-dog. I had a good sense of smell before, now it’s like a super-power! I can still wear my perfume though, “clean” smells are okay but lots off food smells bug me. Especially when someone spilled milk all over & under our office fridge & it soured…yuck! Maintenance had to come in to take it apart to clean it!
@Eva Peron: I am guessing that the hormones are the reason.
That was my first symptom! I was walking through the parking lot to a drug store (to get pregnancy tests-how ironic!) and smelled a cigarette some guy was smoking from a million miles away! He was so far away, but yet I could smell the cigarette. I got my BFP the next day! 🙂
@Eva Peron: I think I’ve read that, evolutionarily-speaking, it makes sense as you’d want to avoid eating spoiled food. But who knows. I imagine hormones are the culprit, as they are with everything.
@PrncssDva: If you have a second baby while the first is still in diapers, you will find this an awful superhuman skill to have. 🙂
Women, in general, have a better sense of smell and color perception than men. I have always had an excellent sense of smell that was heightened during pregnancy. It has remained that way evern since.
I found this to be a gift and a curse. I thought it was interesting from a logical standpoint, but very impractical when smells were gross, or made me sick.
I think what tipped me off was walking into the bathroom after Darling Husband had used it many minutes before me. I could still smell urine in the air, and I wondered what awful thing he’d eaten the day before. It wasn’t that his pee smelled any more than normal, it was my super human smelling powers!
I loved walking past flowers, but hated driving past restaurants or walking near smokers.
Darling Husband and I have a new game now. I close my eyes, we drive with the window open and I announce upcoming sights, namely bins or meat cooking on spits by smell only. Very entertaining. I also told the waitress of a local pancake bar we go to that our waffle was burning. She guffawed and said – yeah right love! I was right… haha!!
I read its too keep you from eating spoiled foods, poison , and foods that could harm the baby. Also if your lacking a certain vitamin it mineral smells of food that have them will be more appealing in smell.
mine is wierd…it only seems super sensitive when it wants to be….
like earier today i went to a bakery thats across from where i work, i remember it always smelling delicious…the normal donuts, cookies, delicious bakery smell…..but today, ugh, it was like i got knocked over soon as i walked in….i could smell perfume/cologne mixed in with the sugary smell from the donuts – it was not pleasant either… i ended up just getting something to drink…very disappointing! lol
Yeah it totally sucks! Lots of things disgust me now lol
My friend who is pregnant claims she can now detect B.O. from 10 feet away and we work in a crowded and stress filled office.
@kiley0812: Believe her. It’s more than likely true!
I’d post one of my experiences, but it’s Too Much Information, and I don’t want to gross anyone out.
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