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what is/was your strangest craving?

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Babyblues14 · 26/02/2017 20:10

11 weeks now and I cant stop thinking about and eating bloody pot noodles.
My sister also had a strange craving of sniffing lemon cleaning products

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lananzack · 26/02/2017 23:28

Werkzallhourz it's supposed to indicate some sort of deficiency, yeah, my doctor had my bloods tested when I told her - surprisingly they all came back fine. Not low on anything. I'd be over the moon if they told me I was low on such-and-such a thing so I could get a supplement to stop the cravings! Lol! It's called Pica, the phenomenon.

YawningHippo · 27/02/2017 09:51

Mine in my first pregnancy was cold Yorkshire puddings.

Batteriesallgone · 27/02/2017 09:54

Currently - vinegar. Malt vinegar.

Previously - sugar, avocado

Jojo13 · 27/02/2017 10:34

Tomatoes. Tomato soup, tomato juice, I was snacking on baby tomatoes like grapes. Not sure if this was a craving or all I could stomach and face in the first trimester!

Bloggybollocks · 27/02/2017 10:36

Mine was pork pie, chopped into cubes, placed in a bowl, covered with ice cold orange Fanta and eaten like soup.....

Chelseachad23 · 27/02/2017 14:36

When my Mam was pregnant with my older brother she craved fruit pastille sin tomato soup, and with me it was those little foam banana sweets. With my first, I craved really cheap hot dogs and didn't really crave anything with my second!

Sundaygal · 27/02/2017 15:18

With my first i craved laundry soap ... Just wanted to smell and lick a newly washed flannel or the clothes before drying them ... yuk! So much nicer when I craved cucumbers so I could actually eat them!

user1483387154 · 27/02/2017 15:20

I feel left out, I havent had any cravings !

miserableandinpain · 27/02/2017 16:06

Leather and diesal/petrol and furniture polish. Mr shine the spring one

LaundryQueenHatesBunfights · 27/02/2017 16:14

Came in this thread to say bath sponges and saw that AllyPally had beaten me to the punch!

As soon as I had DS it stopped. DS now loves chewing his bath sponges

JacquelineChan · 27/02/2017 17:10

Not strange but I developed a sweet tooth, never had one before and not had one since.
I went right off my favourite foods which are fish and Indian food.

Back to normal now

lilyroses · 27/02/2017 17:23

Fizzy cumumber and fizzy watermelon

Gingerbreadmam · 27/02/2017 17:25

jacq out of interest was it a boy or girl?

SaltySalt · 27/02/2017 17:30

Satsumas, baths and ice pops. All together.

JacquelineChan · 27/02/2017 19:02

Boy !

JacquelineChan · 27/02/2017 19:03

I was beside myself , the smell of curry triggered my morning sickness . I was devastated as that is my favourite food lol

KikiA · 27/02/2017 19:07

I drank jalapeño pickling juice from the jar... 😳

dnamummy · 27/02/2017 19:09

I had to have salt - big bowl of it with a stick of celery. Dip, lick, dip like a sherbet dub-dab. Before and after I only put salt on chips and don't even cook much with it!

gooseygander88 · 27/02/2017 19:14

I didn't really have any cravings :( I did eat banana and cornflakes everyday for breakfast tho (never did before pregnancy) and couldn't stomach it after ... however didn't crave it!

Imavinoops · 27/02/2017 19:28

Everyone has asked me if I had any weird cravings and I feel like such a let down when I have to say not really, they were just normal foods tbh.

(Everyone wanted me to say something like superglue and bricks I swear!)

I went through a big phase of wanting pot noodles and another big phase of eating oranges. Otherwise I just wanted to eat anything and everything.

Being pregnant makes you hungry. (At least it did with me! Haha!)

Lemontwist · 27/02/2017 19:32

I couldn't eat enough ice! DH used to drive to the garage to get more when I'd run out. If we didn't have any I'd freeze water in all sorts of containers and frantically check it til it was frozen enough. It was like an addiction!

thecoldnever · 27/02/2017 19:51

Alcohol. I never drank alcohol in my life but when I was pregnant with DD I wanted Beer so badly. I'm pregnant with my second and I crave red wine when I see advertisements for red wine.

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Gingerbreadmam · 27/02/2017 20:00

thanks jac ooh interesting. pfb was a boy and the only craving i had with him was lemons so quite different so i was thinking girl. exciting!

miserableandinpain · 27/02/2017 20:04

I wouldnt relate it to gender. I have 2 boys and now expecting a girl and had/have exactly the same cravings with all of them. Especially the leather one. I could chew on a genuine leather glove if it had the smelll....

Batteriesallgone · 27/02/2017 20:06

Would jerky help with the leather cravings? Trying to think of food that is leathery...

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