OK, am I a freak or has this happened to you???

[~Trish~]

OK, this is going to sound weird, but...when I look at our pram I feel physically sick . I bought a gorgeous, red P&T pram (second hand of course ) when I first found out I was pg and we took it away with us when we had a two week holiday just after Christmas. On that holiday I started to feel crappy as you do in early pregnacy, a bit off in the tummy and very tired. We used the pram heaps on that holiday (loved it btw), but now that we are home, whenever I look at it I feel physically sick because I think it reminds me of how I felt on our holiday! If I even look at a photo of a red pram I feel sick.

Oh my goodness am I a freak or what? Has anyone ever had anything like this happen to them? I know when I've had gastro, I've felt sick for ages afterwards whenever I looked at something that I used while I was sick. So tell me, am I weird?

[alioops]

You are not weird hun. I am the same when I have been sick or when one of the kids has been sick. It took a few days of Sarah constantly using he carseat after it got washed for me to stop picturing her spewing on it.

[~breeze~]

No you're not a freak! I had similar experiences during my pregnancys.

I do hope it passes for you soon though hun

xxx

[ubba82]

I don't think you are weired. I felt the same with the baby's change table. The smell of it (must've been the laquor or varnish used) made me throw up. Now that I have set it up it still makes me queasy - same as you, the thought of what it used to make me feel like, although it is getting better. It will for you soon, too!

[diva det]

i hear you hon- i couldnt open the fridge- even looking at it made me queasy for 5 months as i opened it one day and the smell made me vomit. The thought of opening the fridge made me heave!!! Even walking past it!!

Now i am fine and can open the fridge - lol - it will pass

take care
odette

[~Trish~]

Oh, thanks so much everyone! You've made me feel less of a freak now! It's weird how the human brain works, especially the pregnant brain LOL!

I hope it wears off soon because I dread everytime I have to use the pram!

[Toomanytoomany]

You are so not weird.

When I was having #5, I had horrible morning sickness and in the evenings would crash on the couch. Well, we got the PS2 at that time and dh's favourite game on it was Ratchet and Clank. To this day, when I hear the noise of the bolts being picked up on Ratchet and Clank, I gag. That was five and a half years ago!!

[~Trish~]

Oh my goodness Toomany, how bizarre! I hope it doesn't last that long for me

[MantaRay]

I threw up an apricot muesli bar early in my pg with DS1. I have never, ever, been able to eat one, or even think about eating one, since.

Not weird hun, normal!

[Sterla]

I don't think you're strange - it takes a while to get over the things we associate with feeling sick. I still feel queasy when I even just think about snow peas or silverbeet, as I seriously went off them during my first trimester.

[Toomanytoomany]

I threw up an apricot muesli bar early in my pg with DS1. I have never, ever, been able to eat one, or even think about eating one, since.

Not weird hun, normal!

I've never been able to look at a ham and cheese sandwich the same way again.

This is such a lovely thread

[~Trish~]

See, I can understand the sickness association with food, but it's the association with a non-food item that weirds me out!

Thanks heaps for your replys everyone

[Santosha]

Psychology geek says "ooooohhh that's SO fascinating" - oh so sensitive about your suffering aren't I?

You've got what's called a 'conditioned aversion' - when 2 things have become negatively associated through repeated pairings.

It's pretty adaptive as it means that we learn to avoid things that have made us scared / sick / hurt. So, if you're bitten by a dog, your body will try to get you to run away next time you're near a dog - racing heart, adrenalin, flight response etc. Unfortunately it's not rational, just neurological connections, so obviously your body has decided that red pram and nausea are connected even though one did not cause the other. Funny creatures aren't we?!

Believe it or not, you can treat it. You just need to get yourself into a state where you feel relaxed and happy, and think about the pram. When you start to feel queezy, take long slow deep breaths and use your mind to try and settle your stomach. If you can master this thinking about the pram, do the same looking at a pic of it, or the pram itself. Alternatively, just look at or think about the pram regularly at times when you feel hungry and happy. You should be able to fairly quickly re-condition your mind that the pram is a perfectly safe thing! That is, if you can be bothered with all that to fix pram-aversion!!

[~Trish~]

Wow, thanks katabellah! What an awesome explanation! I am a bit of a "How do things work?" kinda girl and your answer was just what I needed LOL!

I will definitely try the relaxation technique you have described, I want to use that pram without feeling sick!

[sangie]

Trish I don't think your weird (well not about the pram anyway! LOL just kidding!). I had a similar thing in my first pg with DH's playstation. I think the constant movement on the screen made me feel nauseous and from then on the sight of the playstation made me feel ill. I'm over it now though!

Good luck with the relaxation technique, I hope it works for you. After all, a red P&T looks awesome and it's a shame to be feeling so badly about it.

[Lulu]

At least it's only a pram I suppose hun. I couldn't look at another pregnant belly without feeling sick . I felt terrible the entire time my sis was staying with me through her preg, because I couldn't cope with remembering how uncomfortable I was......

[SophieRose]

It was from when i was 10-11 but i still can't look at sweetened condensed milk. If i look at some, smell some, anything. I want to puke.
So no, your not a freak

[angelaartsstudent]

I feel physically ill when I look at our pram but that is becuase I am so incredibly nervous about having a baby...