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Lesley Ure – Smell of diesel made me violently sick when pregnant

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For me I had terrible morning sickness when I was pregnant with my first son, and it was just the overalls in the machine. I could not cope with it.

That mixed with then the Lenor Summer Breeze and I just don’t know what happens. I think your brain makes this connection that overalls are bad, therefore anything else that you’re putting in the wash is also bad and it’s going to make you violently ill, and even now those smells, it just takes me right back to feeling violently ill again.

It was just awful and it just stinks everything out and you know things get stuck to the Velcro and oh, it’s just … he although he never came back in some of the conditions that I’ve heard of and particularly for older Submariners so I think I’m probably quite fortunate that way, or maybe he left a lot of stuff at work as well so, but yeah, the smells are definitely …

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