Super smell

carafern · March 2014

How are you all handling the smell super power?!

This is my first pregnancy and I had heard about this symptom but I didn't expect it to be so intense. The day before I got my BFP, I had an appointment to color my hair. The smell of the hair color was so overpowering to me. Then there's a drawer in our kitchen where there is a jar of truffle salt. I can smell it anytime that drawer is opened. Even if I'm not in that room...I've checked time and again and there's no spillage in the drawer. I even put the jar in a ziplock bag!

I wonder if at some point this super skill will come in handy. Or is it just an annoyance?

phdprocrastinator · March 2014

I found it mostly to be an annoyance last time around. Exiting any building I'd start looking for the smokers who were surely standing right next to me only to find nobody there... I think it was just the lingering scent of smoke in the air. It also lead to more intense food aversions, to the point that I had to avoid certain restaurants.

I guess in our prehistoric days it was a good thing in that you would not likely eat spoiled meat if it smelled that intense...

ChiTown Bridget · March 2014

It was awful with my last pg. Everything smelled horrific to me. I have it again this time around but so far it hasn't been too bad.

hiketheworld · March 2014

This is my number 1 symptom. I can't be near an open garbage can or I gag. Smokers drive me crazy. I will smell overpowering smoke and look around and nobody is smoking (busy nyc streets-someone was smoking just not right that second). Food carts are bad. The absolute worst was my trip to Sephora. I would avoid that store completely if smells are really affecting you.

ashloustep · March 2014

I'm actually starting to consider my sense of smell a special 'power' at this point... It's sooooo strong! It hasn't been too bad in terms of making me sicker and it's definitely better than m/s and constipation as far as symptoms

nonoemily · March 2014

When I was pregnant with my DS I worked for an alcoholic and I couldn't stand to be near him. That was the worst.

The coolest was when I was about 8 weeks, I went for a hike and wild roses where blooming everywhere. It was so vivid!

meeshybee · March 2014

I seem to be sensitive to some smells normally. I can't go near Bath & Body Works or similar places because it's just overpowering.

I haven't noticed it with mundane things yet, but it normally hits me later in the pregnancy. With #2, I couldn't cook ground beef because the smell turned my stomach. Definitely more annoyance than superpower.

LoR2010 · March 2014

We were house shopping yesterday, one house I had to leave immediately bc of the strong cat pee smell in the house :-q

Rhall2088 · March 2014

I can't stand the smell of red meat boiled chicken for right now. With my first I hated the above, and the smell of my husband, his body wash, cologne which I normally loved and when he wasn't wearing that anything he ate would come out of his pores and make me sick I had my mom smell him and she said I was weird I couldn't get to close to him when I was pregnant during the first trimester my husband called it my wolverine senses

StressyMess85 · March 2014

went to a target the other day and could smell the plastic toy section from 4 aisles away. ugh.

brooklyngirl18 · March 2014

i can't even open my refrigerator it's like the entire grocery store exploded right in my face. i also smelled cologne in the parking lot over the weekend yet no one was around.

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