Strangest cravings?

[bippityboppitypoo]

This is my fourth pregnancy, fourth daughter.

I am craving pine disinfectant?! Last pregnancies had more sane cravings , melon, milk & ice.

[sarkymare]

Sounds like PICA (picca?)

Basically weird cravings indicate you may be lacking in a particular nutrient/mineral and it's your body's way of telling you. Usually it's iron but can be other things.

I would mention it to your MW and see if you can have any tests to see if you are lacking in anything.

[Frolicacid]

I'm majorly craving bath sponge! Told my midwife about it today and she didn't seem worried - just advised me not to swallow.

One of my friends craved fire lighters! Eww!

[cherrytree63]

I craved the smell of old fashioned Vim, I ruined our bath scouring it twice a day.
I also licked bricks .

[BakingBunty]

DS - citrus
DD - custard

[LuisSuarezTeeth]

Washing powder (smell)
White spirit (smell)
Vinegar by the teaspoon
Grapefruit up to 4 a day
Horseradish

[pearly1980]

This is my 2nd pregnancy and craving pine nuts, sour sweets and milk.

Last pregnancy it was lemon and coleslaw/sour cream type flavours

[RockerMummy184]

Frolic I was the same with sponges when I had ds. I also used to leave damp flannels in the bathroom to go foisty and then lay in the bath for hours sniffing them!
I'm loving vinegar this time round. I'm having balsamic on everything. Tonight I had a packet of ham and a baguette dipped in balsamic reduction for dinner!

[sarkymare]

I just realised i forgot to add that I craved the smell of chlorine in my last pregnancy. I would walk to the swimming baths just for a whiff most days.

I also had a thing about touching/stroking cold or soft objects. It it was soft I wanted to stroke it, if it was cold I wanted to rub it on my face [embarrassed] but perhaps that was just me being weird and was completely unrelated to pregnancy

[SycamoreMum]

Clean tasting ice. And even after I still eat it. I kept one drawer in my freezer food free and just filled with crushed ice that I'd sit in front of with a ladle scraping ice out

[bippityboppitypoo]

I'm still loving ice and milk as with my other pregnancies but I have to wash the glass I'm using loads before I can bear to use it because of the smell (of glass), I'm pretty sure if I wasn't pregnant there would be no smell

[Number3cometome]

Every day on the train we go past these hills of sand, cement and mud.

I crave eating those.

I have a real ice addiction, and have low iron which explains it!

I also could eat a stick of chalk.

[Bellejessleo]

This is my 3rd pregnancy and I've never experienced anything like what I'm craving before! Petrol, chlorine, dettol, fabric conditioner, basically anything with a strong chemical smell. I'm 37 weeks and it's really kicked in the past few weeks. The smells are just so satisfying to me, I can't explain it. Haven't craved any actual food stuffs though! I haven't yet eaten anything strange, just had the odd whiff. We've just painted our hallway and I enjoyed cleaning the brushes with white spirit far too much! Maybe it does mean I'm lacking a nutrient.

[Number3cometome]

Oh yes! Washing machine powder - I usually use liquid but the powder just looks and smells so nice!

[excitedforbaba]

Yes Frolic & Rocker to the bath sponge craving. Never swallowed them but just breaking off little pieces and holding it in my mouth was heaven! Also loved the noise from tearing the sponge apart!

Also craved the smell of dove soap and flash lemon. Cleanest kitchen iv ever had

[excitedforbaba]

Also the ice chips! I could only ever fit a small amount of juice in the glass it was packed with so much ice!

[Luckystar82]

Water, water, water!

Non-pregnant me would always put a drop of squash in because I found plain water difficult to drink in large quantities.

Now I can't get enough of the H2O stuff. I drink gallons of it daily and don't like sugary drinks!

[Allstoppedup]

I ate a tonne of paper with my first

I also loved the smell of bleach and was wiping EVERYTHING down with it weeks before the birth. I went through bottles off the stuff!

[Luckystar82]

Also love the smell of matches! hmmmm

[bobthebuddha]

Number3 a girl I used to work with would go through at least one packet of chalk a day whilst pregnant!
Mine was aniseed; hasn't really gone away tbh..

[FernGullysWoollyPully]

It was ice with my first.

And yes Frolic, Rocker and Excited I'm another for the sponge club! I've had the same with my last 3 (all girls) but not with DS. Am pregnant with another dd but can't say the feelings taken me this time!

I loved biting those round baby sponges, not ingesting any or ripping bits off just biting a slightly damp one! I feel so much shame whenever I tell people and get or

My friend had the urge to suck pennies!

[RockerMummy184]

Very reassuring Fern and Excited to hear that I'm not alone in the strange sponge thing! I've also had the and looks from people that I've told. I don't tell people any more!

My grandma told me that when she was pregnant with all 4 of her sons she craved dust. She would stand in the porch, shut the doors and windows and shake the doormat so the room filled with dust!

[passmethewineplease]

Another sponge lover here.

I used to have a round squishy one with holes that I used to fantasize about putting in my mouth. I use to bite it as well.

[Notonyournelly478]

I used to have two or three baths a day to be with my SPONGES i had car washing ones and everything, used to bite on them and squeeze them. Had about 9! Then i started loving washing up with loads of soap on the sponge squidging and squidging it! Weird

[TheBreastmilksOnMe]

I craved snow. Freshly fallen, and luckily two of my three pregnancies were over winter, and even more fortunate was the fact it snowed both times! So out I went in the dead of night to scoop up some soft snow off the wall (checked it for footprints, dirt and yellowing) filled up my bowl and went back inside to drizzle some maple syrup over it. Sat down to eat it. Nirvana.

[Catypillar]

Sponges and ice here. One day I had a brainwave- put the sponge under the tap, squeeze it out so there's enough water to freeze into some ice crystals but not enough to make it solid and un-biteable, then put it in the freezer... amazing