Does anyone else have cravings to smell things?

[Nikki2ol6]

I'm 35 weeks and I feel the need to smell certain things. Olbas and snuffle babe are my favourite but i went into the chemist a few days back and my friend works there and she was cleaning the shelfs with bleach and the smell was amazing! I don't really crave any food ..... anyone else got this?

Not this pregnancy but with my daughter I craved the smell of petrol. I hung out at the garage a lot that pregnancy

When I was pregnant 20 odd years ago it was petrol when Dh was filling up the car I would roll the window down and take a deep sniff.

Oh snap divadee

Craving things that are not food stuffs is called Pica. I think (but not sure) that craving smells comes under that name too.

I had pica with my third baby. Wanted to bite sponge all the time. Not eat, just dig my teeth into it because it felt nice. Very weird.

I had it with both DC, mainly petrol and rubber, as in new tyres and rubber bands. When pregnant with DS my line manager found me in the stationery cupboard with my nose in a huge box of rubber bands!

Totally normal.

I loved the smell of hot oil (not cooking oil) in my 2nd pregnancy.
Nothing like that in my first.

Petrol for me too!

YES to Olbas! Mmm I need to go and find it now!

I loved sniffing hand sanitizer when I was pregnant.

Yes. I posted about this the other week. I'm craving musty smells like you might find in a cellar, bags of potatoes that earthy smell, petrol for me too. All smells that normally I cant stand. Asked m.w and she just laughed. Its crazy If I'm watching something on tv and their for e.g in a background with lots of earth I keep imagining the smell.

I think I was around 25 wks with my first when I craved musty smells (like drywall, cellars, dust, plaster etc) and at that point babys room was being stripped and replastered. I'd go in there every 20 minutes just to have a whiff. It was bizarre. By 35 wks I had to physically stop myself from digging a hole in the wall to eat the drywall inside of it! so it turned into a really weird unbelievably strong craving.

Mint sauce, mmmmmmmm.....

When I was expecting dd2 I was completely addicted to the smell of the new flip flops I bought for my hospital bag. I'm glad no one ever saw me sneakily have a sniff. I must have looked unhinged.