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Talk about every stage of pregnancy, from early symptoms to preparing for birth.

what is/was your strangest craving?

71 replies

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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Gingerbreadmam · 27/02/2017 20:15

really? ah welk it is all still to play for at the minute then!

SallyGinnamon · 27/02/2017 20:16

KitKats. That's why DD is called Catherine!

SaltySalt · 27/02/2017 21:34

Also Tesco clotted cream rice pudding every day for weeks!

miserableandinpain · 27/02/2017 21:41

I had thought about that but cant find any :(
I have been eating tuna steak (the texture when it is well cooked) and beef mince or thinly sliced and fried with a lot of salt. Satisfies it for a while but its not the same. Sometimes i crave it so much i cry haha

AllFurCoatNoKnickera · 27/02/2017 21:44

Pickled beetroot. And it had to be the balls of beetroot, not sliced.

Jars upon jars upon jars of the stuff.

I also craved cigarettes. Gave up while trying and the smell knocked me sick before I got pregnant but once I was, I would literally follow smokers around for a sniff.

user1486499646 · 27/02/2017 21:50

Vinager and jars of pickled onions

whoateallthejaffacakes · 27/02/2017 21:55

jelly sweets, cocpops & sniffing poundland flash white & orange spray kitchen cleaner since HG has subsided

MopedManiac · 27/02/2017 22:00

One night in summer in Australia while heavily pregnant with DS I had to have a roast beef dinner (with all the trimmings!). I made said roast dinner sat down to eat and suddenly couldn't stand the thought of it! I had wheetabix instead!

FourKidsNotCrazyYet · 27/02/2017 22:26

Watching horror movies. I've never had a food craving. Always horror. And my kids all came out fairly normal Wink

Fizzball · 27/02/2017 23:29

All I want to eat is chips, cheap hotdogs and beer which are all things I'd never normally consume. I am also completely obsessed with the smell of earl grey tea. I can't bring myself to drink it but I have a box of teabags just for sniffing and I've even bought some earl grey tea perfume.

Doublemint · 27/02/2017 23:33

Satsuma shower gel.

Used to sneak into the bathroom to sniff it and get a "hit" of the smell to stop me drinking it.

I LOVED nice fruity citrus smells when I was pregnant, I was a woman obsessed with sniffing shower gel and soap. My sense of smell was so cool, I could smell water once walking home (I don't know how to describe it!) and then two driveways down, not in my view, some neighbourhood kids had set up a paddling pool! I could smell it from maybe 25m away!

I also had edible cravings for Terry's chocolate oranges too!

Twopeapods · 27/02/2017 23:35

Rubber!
Loved the smell and bought a rubber dog chew to chew on. I would go into Halfords and just inhale.....

MsPavlichenko · 28/02/2017 00:16

So sick with my first, all I could manage was Ice Poles/Pops and sweetie foam bananas till about five months, smell of almost everything made me sick. Had my son.

Second, no cravings, not sick at all. Had my daughter.

AllAboutCats83 · 28/02/2017 01:55

Almost 35 weeks into my first pregnancy here, no real cravings (apart from wanting non-specific sweet stuff) until about a week ago when all I could think about was chewing rubber. Salivate st the thought of it. Went shoe shopping with DH and I just buried my face in the thick rubbery soles of the shoes he was looking at. Tires as well, oh lord how I want to gnaw on tires.

Tilly2017 · 28/02/2017 09:15

Hot vegetables..... peas carrots broccoli roadt potatoes.... anything but has to be freshly cooked!

Whatsername17 · 28/02/2017 13:45

Peanut butter and salt and vinegar crisps sandwiches.

sunbird17 · 28/02/2017 15:11

I'm craving Beer. Not something I would usually drink.

Guiltypleasures001 · 28/02/2017 15:13

Ice cold milk by the pint
Nectarines and yogurt, only thing I could stomach at the time

miserableandinpain · 28/02/2017 20:39

I bought some jerky as suggested today for my leather craving...but they only had bbq flavour. It was the most disgusting thing i have ever tasted :(

Whiskeyagogo · 28/02/2017 21:33

Chocolate milkshake and mini cheddars yum

IrishTwins · 28/02/2017 21:34

This is a bit of a weird one...
Johnsons baby powder, I ate the stuff like sherbert!!
When I went for my maternity appointments I ended up being a case study! They was all facinated about my craving..
Kept a spare bottle in the car & in my handbag! I used to make my mum & partner buy it in bulk for me. If I didn't have any, I would get aggy!
I'd get through a big bottle in about 3 days.
I ate it during both my pregnancies (2 girls aged 1 & 2) & they came out perfectly healthy!
I've tired Johnson baby powder since I've had my girls & it tastes like perfume 🤢😷

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