Hot water craving?

[Inwaiting]

Hi all

I'm 34 weeks and I'm obsessed with drinking plain hot water and having showers. Just wondered if any one else has/had this and whether it meant anything like lacking something?

I'm having up to 5 showers a day my skins so dry but I just can't stop 🙈

[LadybirdSpots]

Oh my goodness, yes!!

I don't have to showers all the time, instead I crave drinking hot water out of sponges! I just get them soaking wet and suck them dry, as well as drinking plan boiled water!

I had exactly the same thing when I was pregnant with DC1, so there must something in it, it's so weird!

[Inwaiting]

I can't seem to find anything on Google to say what it is. What sex was DC1? We haven't found out but I'm wondering if there's a link

[LadyFarnborough]

Pretty healthy as cravings go!

[wigelspigels]

With my first I ate bowls full of ice cubes, have been thinking of them this time again. Love the smell of certain things too. Odd.

[SnuffleGruntSnorter]

I was on the ice cubes too, DH took me out for a fancy meal as our last date night before the baby arrived and all I wanted was jug after jug of icy water. The waitress was fantastic when she realised what was going on

[cdevine5812]

I crave hot water, crushed ice, and steam. This is mostly a sign of Pica. Linked to having low iron and a deficit of minerals. I have super low iron and have these same problems. Cant get enough of my humidifier, hot showers, plain hot water, ice cubes, clean wash rags with hot water and the smell of the air conditioner. 😶

[Mrsmummy90]

Agree with pp about it being linked to low iron.
I have had pica since I was about 12 due to on and off anemia. I go through phases of being obsessed with eating ice. I'm 34+4 and currently can't get enough of the stuff.

[Dvg]

Both babys I was obsessed with chewing on wet sponges too, I had to have an iron transfusion so maybe lacking something

[DevonshireDarling]

Im obsessed with the smell of hot air, especially from tumble driers! But hair driers and Hoover's will do! Iron levels are fine though, so I'm just putting it down to weird pregnancy cravings. I also want to drink fabric softener but I definitely won't.