Weird Cravings- please tell me I'm not the only one!

[CharrinCornwall91]

SO its been slowly building up. I'm 33 weeks pregnant with my first baby, and now I'm getting the crazy cravings women talk about in pregnancy, beforehand I didn't really have any cravings normal or weird. But this is a odd one. I'm obviously suffering from "pica" as I am obsessed with sponges..and not the cake type. I love playing with, feeling, washing and rinsing (and now I'm starting to chew some :/) scourer sponges, car sponges, natural sponges any at all! I notice there is a whole "asmr" community on Instagram that I am now watching hours of, which is feeding my obsession. I also like floral foam dry and soaked, breaking it up, cutting it, freezing it. I've never experienced anything like this! My husband finds this incredibly weird and leaves me to it in the kitchen. What are other peoples pica or weird cravings?And PLEASE say this finishes once I have the baby.

that is a strange one but no how u feel i craved mud with my first baby not just any mud it had to be that dry gritty mud thats like dust ! i wanted it so much i actually put it in my mouth and spat it out a few times tmi i know ugh lol i also craved with my second child baby powder i really wanted to eat it so bad i told the midwife and she said maybe i was lacking something she was right after a blood test they found i was anemic and that's what the weird cravings were about so odd the things we crave in pregnancy isn't it xx luckily the mud craving vanished straight away after the baby was born but the baby powder one stayed with me for a few months after im now 21 weeks with my third and no cravings so far touch wood x

My craving was dettol
I would go to work with a mini bottle of it in my bag to sit and sniff in between emails and phone calls
House would be doused in it
I even had baths with dettol in the water
Still love it now but only for mopping
This was with my first
Second was just cake n custard

I craved sponges in my first pregnancy....everything apart from eating them! I didn't know it had a name

I get pica too normally when my iron drops slightly , I suck a (clean) wet flannel and sponges sometimes , it’s crazy! I love dettol and washing up liquid I wish could drink them 😂 and chlorine !

Apparently cravings sponges is surprisingly common with pica. Pica can be a symptom of anemia so if you're feeling overly tired or breathless as well, I'd go to your gp.

I craved ice for years and ate ridiculous amounts. It did so much damage to my teeth. I managed to curb it and had been ice-free for years.
I'm now pregnant with dc2 and the cravings have started again 🙈