What did you crave during pregnancy???

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With ds1 I wanted turkey and maramlade sandwiches. With ds2 I wanted apple juice and snack sized mars bars. Went off all junk food and carved roast potatoes and gravy.

Anyone else?

In fact the sniffing sponges I had with ds too.
I'm sure it'll happen again with this one.

The smell of a cheapy new sponge is fab

that got to be the most bizzare "craving" ive heard of!!!! no calories though...... cant be bad lol

I also secretly used to take them into the shower with me and have a good chew on them

There are a handful of MNetters that have admitted the same craving, lol!

Ice lollies. In January.

i had a complete aversion to onions throughout my 2nd pregnancy,to the extreme measure of checking ingredients on everything, for anything onion related, you would be amazed how many things have onion powder in!!!! it used to drive my dh mad!!!

nbg........ have u checked out dodgyspongesniffers.com lol just kidding

Over four pg's I've craved -

Fish paste sandwiches.

Granny Smith apple sandwiches.

Tomato, sugar and salad cream sandwiches.

I think I see a theme there.....

Tomatoes and Citrus Fruit - both of which I hated before. And really really strong flavours towards the end. Oh and when I was 41.5 weeks I suddenly had an urge for sugar donuts in the middle of the night... so I actually got up an made some having never deep-fried before in my life. I ate about 10 in a row that night and the rest the next day!

Mini cheddars at the beginning was all I could stomach till the sickness passed.

I used to eat firelighters when pregnant with twins.

Also rampant sex drive withall pregnancies. I turned into a filthy dirty ho

DS1 it was pears (really hard ones from the fridge!) and haribo jelly sweets

DS2 stodgy meat things like pies and gravy Probably why he has such an appetite!!

Frozen Orange juice.

I'd do about 3 or 4 plastic pint cups full a day. Eaten with a spoon.

Fruit salad and yoghurt, fruit had to be cut small, could not include apples, must have grafruit and grapes, must be mixed together, must be lots of it.

Ham, tomato and Mustard in white crusty roll. I frightened a sainsbury's bakery assistant when I first got this craving, in the middle of the supermarket when DP asked if there was anything I fancied. Poor bloke could not find any crusty rolls. I must have looked quite horrified, as he scuttled off and found me 6!

Toothpaste

21 wks at mo. Lots and lots of ice. Get up in the night to get glass full of them. Also ice lollies - am on my 6th of the day and it's winter here.

DS1 - toasted bread muffins with cream cheese and strawberry jam.

This one - Chocolate milk
Bread (any sort)

All food and wait for it.................................................................................................. ........... Wrights Coal Tar Soap (to smell and lick....ew) and sponge to chew (only when soaked in water). Pica at its best!

With dd first craving was branston pickle then it was extra strong mints and smelling lavendar with ds it was extra strong mints and anything mint i used mint shampoo and conditioner and shower gel use to wash my hands in mint all the time and you to smell peppermint oil and on xmas day i woke up wanting to eat that stuff between bricks on a wall

With both children and two i m/c i went off chinese food before i ever got a positive test and i love chinese

With dd I finished off a big box of sugar puffs a week - I usually can't stand any sort of sweet cereal. With ds I drank loads of milk which I also don't usually drink at all.
I had a friend, a total health food freak who had no sugar in her house (only honey was allowed) and she craved coca cola of all things.

With DS it was just orange juice. This time it is ice cream and cans of sprite (lord knows why I haven't drunk the stuff for over 10 years).....oh and I have just finished 1 litre of strawberry flavoured milk

anything sour, saltnvinegar crisps,all sort of pickles,ghurkens with dd
this time, ice lollies,chipshop chips,chicken royale sandwich from burger king,fizzy drink(never wanted one before pg)

For my last two pregnancies I craved cheese. I also couldnt stand the smell at the entrance to Morrisons it made me feel so sick.

ds1
marmite on white toast oozing butter
branston pickle
paxo stuffing
roast potatoes.

ds2
toasted bacon sarnies with brown sauce
strawberries
ovaltine.

wouldnt touch any of that with a bargepole normally (except the marmite toast)

pickled herrings

currently it's cheese, Quavers, and lots of fruit (esp. nectarines which I normally find too sweet)

At the moment lemon cake, lemoncurd, lemon squash, lemonade basically anything with lemon!