37 weeks pregnant and craving the smell of rubber does this mean i'm deficient in something if so what?

[Ledodgy]

Title says it all really i've never had any non- food cravings in my other two pregnancies but this week in this pregnancy I can't get enough of the smell of rubber and i'm even tempted to steal one of ds's dummies to suck/bite on. Do you reckon i'm deficient in some important vitamin or just a bit strange? I was in Wickes DIY today and couldn't get enough of the aisle which had some kind of rubber tubing on, i'm starting to get funny looks!

[melander]

Are you craving contraception?????

[Saturn74]

melander

[Ledodgy]

Pmsl not atm but I bloody will be after this one is born. This will be our third and we were stopping at two.

[Ledodgy]

Weird I've just realised I posted this thread twice and thought I was going mad and imagined other posts for a minute!

[Didylicious]

I don't know - but I had that craving REALLY badly with my 1st child.

A hot water bottle filled with hot water (increasing that rubbery smell with the heat!) used to be heaven!

I'd sit and sniff it while watching the telly of an evening.

[gingerspice]

i loved rubber too with my first and i have no cravings at all with this one

[spackcat]

This is strange isn't it? This post caught my eye because I can remember my mum having the same craving when going through the menopause - so perhaps it's a female hormone thing?! I can vividly remembering her chewing rubber bands regularly; it must have been a year or so, weird!