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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait. Someone denying "me" coffee would mean war.[/quote]

I know, right?  I totally sympathize with the nauseous pregnant lady.  But dang I need my coffee.  Take the pot outside and brew it on the balcony.  Then bring it back inside and enjoy.[/quote]

No way. Pregnant lady can go outside.[/quote]

Oh, come on.  You don't make a woman with morning sickness drag herself out of bed and away from the toilet,  out onto the balcony while you brew your coffee inside like a big old jerk.  Just take the pot outside, sit on the balcony enjoying the sunrise while your coffee brews next to you.  You won't even have to get up to pour yourself a cup.  Just sit there enjoying that salty sea air with the smell of fresh coffee wafting in the wind - absolute heaven.[/quote]

So we should run an extension cord to the balcony to brew coffee and the rest of the house of 10+ adults should sit outside while the one person bothered by it sits inside? You're kidding right?[/quote]

Use the outdoor outlet.  Or run an extension cord.  Brew the pot outside.  People can come out and get a cup and go back inside.  It is the brewing that is making the pregnant woman sick. So a small effort on your part to avoid that would be nice.[/quote]

You are nuts. I am currently pregnant and spent the first 20 weeks throwing up at the smell of coffee. Totally unreasonable to make people brew coffee outside. I could leave the room for a few minutes while people make coffee. Move the entire coffee maker outside for one person? Not a chance. If she is that sensitive to smells she can take medicine like I did. [/quote]

O.k. but if your sense of smell is heightened during pregnancy and can smell the coffee brewing in your bedroom with the door closed...and the smell is making you vomit, then what?[/quote]

Then I would throw up. I threw up all the time anyway. Lots of smells made me sick, and I could get sick without offending smells at all. I took prescription medicine to help combat the vomiting. But I would not have insisted that people take coffee elsewhere. At the beach house this summer, I threw up several times when my FIL was making egg salad, for some reason the smell of hard boiled eggs was horrible. But that was my problem, he should be allowed to make food in the kitchen. [/quote]

Well, you appear to have been sensitive to a variety of different smells.  But in this case we are talking about a person in a shared vacation rental getting sick from the aroma of brewing coffee every morning.  If she was also complaining about the smell of popped popcorn, sunscreen, scrambled eggs, hairspray etc then I can see how everyone in the house could not possibly be expected to accommodate her by not cooking those foods/using those products.

But, if it's just the smell of brewing coffee that is making her miserable in the morning and there really is no place in the house where she can go to escape it, I would tend to try to find a way to brew my coffee so that she wouldn't be bothered by it.  That's me and that's how I handle things I guess.[/quote]

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