Stink Bugs

While I was pregnant with Cole, I was extremely sensitive to smells. Nathan had always sworn to me that stink bugs spray and that they smell bad. I honestly thought he was making it up, since I had never SMELLED one. Well, one day I found a stink bug in the house, and I put him in a paper towel and just threw him in the garbage. The next day I kept smelling something in the kitchen that would make me feel so sick! (Hooray for morning sickness!)

Well, it was the stink bug! After that, I always swore I could smell a stink bug!

"Nathan. I swear I smell a stink bug." And he would think I was losing it.

Then on another occasion, I FOUND the culprit, and tried to kindly catch it and throw it outside (Cuz if you mess with them, they spray!) Well, I upset him enough to make him spray, and the carpet stunk FOREVER. I tried EVERYTHING to make that smell go away!

(I would describe it as a sort of METAL smell, but with a funky kick to it.)

It took seriously TWO WEEKS before I couldn't smell it anymore.

Then, whenever I would sit in the recliner to watch TV, I would say, "Nathan. There is a stink bug in the house. I swear I can smell it." And he would say he couldn't smell anything. Well, after days and days of smelling that putrid bug, (and Nathan thinking I was NUTS.) I set out to find him and prove to Nathan that he existed! I pulled out the recliner to vacuum underneath it, and ALAS! A DEAD stink bug, right under the recliner! Sick.

Anyway, it took me a long time to explain this whole thing, but it does serve a purpose! So, I think stink bug GAS INHALATION during pregnancy caused my poor child to be born with "special" tendencies. I really believe there is a connection here.

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