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

[~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......