Mothers/Pregnant Ladies. What cravings have you had?

Question

I'd love to hear what cravings you have or had during pregnancy.
I loved eating ice cubes all day. Which isn't too bad but you hear of some ladies having weird cravings. What were yours?

Answer 1

With my first baby I had a craving for jacket potatoes with beans and cheese and chocolate buttons (had to be the giant ones!) I would have a mouthful of potato and then a choccy button.

With my second it was icecream with yoghurt on! My hubby filled the freezer with tubs of raspberry ripple so I didn't run out! What a star!!!

Answer 2

With my son I didn't really have any wierd cravings, I did eat a lot though!! One thing was that I went off hot pizza, and I would only eat it cold out of the fridge the next day.. lol



With this pregnancy (I'm 40 weeks 3 days with a girl), I have had a craving to chew sellotape all the way through, I'm not sure why, it's odd! Also, I never liked chocolate before, and now I crave it! Not giving in to that one too much though!



*Mummy to Alex, 5, and Encarni, due 3 days ago..*

Answer 3

Sorry - answering on my husbands account!!



Like a few others on here - my big one was ice! Just big lumps of it!

Otherwise, the only thing I enjoyed or wanted to eat was spicy food, chilli, curries, mexican, anything! Don't know if that was a craving or not though??



And it was a boy.

Have heard of a few people with the ice thing have boys. For those who are UK and who'll know who I mean - I was pregnant last year at the same time as Davina McCall and gave birth about a month before. I remember her saying on tv she'd got a craving for ice and I had a bet with my husband that she'd have a boy because of that and she did. Strange.

Answer 4

When I was pregnant with my oldest daughter, I craved peanut butter and slim jim's. I didn't want to entertain that craving because my conscience mind thought it was disgusting. Until, one day I stopped at a gas station to get some munchies and I realized I was alternating bites between a reese's peanut butter cup and a slim jim. That was the weirdest one.



My other cravings were normal, like tater tots or chocolate milk or cheese. But I wanted only that all the time!

Answer 5

I never had anything disgusting, however on two separate months, I had some things that I just had to have everyday.



I didn't find out I was pregnant until I was 4 1/2 months along. But starting the 4th month, I had to have fries and cobbler everyday. I worked at Ponderosa at the time, so this was possible. I had no idea what was going on until I found out.



The last month, I had to have grilled cheese and ramen noodles every single day. Needless to say, my son loves his grilled cheese and noodles.



I just remembered that I could NOT stomach the smell of Taco Bell. It took me till about 4 years after I had my son to bring myself to eat there again.

Answer 6

on both i craved banana milkshake.food wise it was curry and my second chip shop jumbo sausages.and normally i wont touch the things as I'm a picky meat eater.only really eat chicken an that's not often.the 1 thing that i craved which freaked me out was the smell of disinfectant.i was constantly mopping with jays fluid.BTW ppl its not good 2 smell disinfectant the chemicals could b dangerous just thought I'd get that in so i dont get sued for putting ideas in pregnant Lady's heads lol x

Answer 7

Never had anything out of the ordinary but mine were marmite on toast (loved marmite before being pregnant but it just multiplyed when i was), tomatoes(only raw!!) and the smell of plastic toys (brand new ones) i used to make just a slit in the package and stiff it non stop lol, there was 1 plus side for the marmite...... it contains folic acid so couldnt be too bad



one of my friends cravings was mash potatoe, and another friend of mine would drink a litre of lemonade a day when pregnant.

Answer 8

Mine were weird!!



With my first son I craved chocolate and mince pies. I also ate ice pops and ice cubs. And the dinner I ate most was a huge plate of mashed potato, with a tin of tuna in the middle!



With my second son, they were abnormal, but were guided by smells, rather than tastes. I ate paper, sometimes just sucking it and spitting it out, but often swallowing it too. I got through 4 catalogues in my whole pregnancy...and I couldn't hold any type of book/magazine without it going to my mouth...the smell was just delightful!! I also used to sniff white spirit, until my partner took it away because he was scared it would harm the baby!



Both children are normal...well as normal as normal can be!

Answer 9

Oh, man, where do you start?

I have 5 kids; different cravings on each of them. On my first, I went crazy for a particular kind of ice-pop called ORANGUTAN; I bought them by the dozen and stored them in the freezer. I could eat six an evening, and they helped to quell the nausea.



On my fifth, my nausea was so bad and went on through the whole 9 months....the only thing that would stay in my stomach was very spicy food. I began putting chillies in everything, even in scrambled eggs...



My sister just had her second, and HER craving was for FIRELIGHTERS!! Yes, those paraffin-soaked white sticks with tiny pieces of charcoal in them!! she nibbled them all day - and as she smokes too, we gave her a very wide berth when she lit up in case she exploded!



Oh my Gawd!

Answer 10

I have not had the ice craving, but I have had cravings for meat (which, Im a vegitarian), fries, and Mac and cheese. Which is really unhealthy, but thats what I usually want.



But for aversions, I cannot even think about Spinach and Artichoke dip b/c it gets me nauseas. It terrible...I used to love it...oh, well...Hopefully that will go away in time.

Answer 11

With my 1st I HAD to have bags and bags of milkybar buttons (had to be the milkybar ones!) Just as well we lived right by a shop or DP might have exercised into nothing the number of times i sent him to fetch some!



With my 2nd it was big macs lol (nothing but healthy cravings for me lmao)



In between I had a miscarriage, and before i miscarried i craved cheap apple juice (smart price stuff...expensive stuff was no good!)

Answer 12

Rubber with my first.

I had to chew rubber bands or cut bits of rubber into strips and chew it, and the smell of a new tyre made my mouth water lol.( Had a boy)

With my second I had a few different..salt and vinegar crisps, then Cornish pasties and then beef and mustard crisps dipped in ice cream bleugghh (had a girl)

Now on my 3rd and I need minty chewing gum, pepsi (not coke) and cheese and celery sandwiches..for now!!

Answer 13

my cravings were a little strange, with my first it was pickled onion monster munch dipped in strawberry angel delight or MacDonald's fries dipped in Strawberry milkshake and semi skimmed milk to drink. I can't stand milk normally but was drinking up to 26 pints a week. With my second it was a bit more normal, Bounty Bars, paprika pringles and Dr pepper or semi skimmed. In fact if i want to wind my other half up i ask him to pick up 4 pints of semi skimmed on his way home, works every time!

Answer 14

with my eldest it was cold long sausage rolls, and chips and curry, i just craved curry on anything (which matched in well with my sausage roll and curry lol) i loved pineapple to, which i heard 'can help' encourage labour to start off lol.



with my youngest, i looked at flowers and craved eating them, but i never did it, i haven't a clue why i wanted to do it, but thankfully i never. But it was curry again lol



But my sex drive was through the roof for when i was pregnant, lol which i think helped me not gain as much weight (with me eating so many curries lol) but i still went over due, but i think sex helped start me off to.



i am envious i would love to be pregnant again lol. And have all the weird and bugging symptoms of it to, lol but i loved it.



all the best with your pregnancy

xx

Answer 15

Cravings are mental!!! you cant resist them lol, i had to have RAW potatoes with my first (i know its disgusting lol), cravings were intense i put on so much weight with the starch involved lol, with the twins it was ham salad rolls from my local bakers (was the butter they used), and my 4th was anything vegetarian, i couldn't touch meat made me heave!!! i ate indian vegetable curry's for 9 months (not impressed as i love burgers). Everyone's different!!

Answer 16

Mints. I craved mints during my pregnancy. I used to love brushing my teeth cos of the minty taste! Ha ha

Answer 17

My sons are in their 20s now, but with the 1st, I ate mint sauce straight out of the jar.



With the 2nd, it was fried onions with tomato ketchup..I've never eaten either of those things since

Answer 18

With my first pregnancy it was Mexican food, usually cheese enchiladas, pancakes, chocolate milk and reeces peanut butter cups.



During this pregnancy, it hasn't been really any one thing except for garlic bread. I eat garlic bread for breakfast! LOL

Ive also eatin a lot of frozen berries with whipped cream on them

Answer 19

mine wasn't food, but i craved the smell of the cleaning stuff called "Comet". I would clean and reclean over and over using that stuff in the kitchen. I though it was the gretest smell during my whole pregnancy.....now 8 years later i can't stand the smell. crazy huh? :)

Answer 20

With my first I always had to have pineapple and sour patch kids. With my second it was also ice cubes but that was because I was anemic.

Answer 21

Rubber lol! i would chew on th end of my hubbys screwdrivers and drive to b&q and stand there just smelling the rubber lol

that and plain salted doritos with mint sauce!

Answer 22

i also love eating ice cubes but other ones i have had is walkers pickled onion crisps yum yum and sour sweeties the sour the better!!

Answer 23

The only thing I loved was refreshers packets and packets of them. Would of been better eating lemons, not so much waist expansion.

Answer 24

In all 3 of my pregnancies, I loved ice as well! I ate it no matter the weather. I also loved KFC, ice cream, McDonalds and tomatoes!

Answer 25

My were hot peppers and the hotter the better. I still like peppers but much milder, however, my daughter is 6 and continues to like hot peppers.

Answer 26

i neede to have pickles and bananas. together. i got totally sick with the smell of eggs. i remember the feeling like its happening right now. this was 4 years ago.

Answer 27

This properly sounds disgusting but with both my pregnancies whenever i put the washing on i had to lick the persil washing tablet before i put it in the machine.

Answer 28

well my cravings were salt and vinegar on toast,

prawn cocktail crisps with icecream ( didn't actually try it though i wasn't brave enough)

chineese takeaway

mc donalds

mixed pickles

and chips with mayo

ooooh and lots of icecream

Answer 29

just ice fruit ice lollies and ice poles cant get enough but at least nothing too extreme

Answer 30

with my first son it was a banana with cheese and onion crisps pushed into it. my 2nd son was tomato sauce samdwiches, with my daughter ice pops and my last son was beetroot

Answer 31

mine were,

fizzy orange

pear drops and petrol fumes

marzipan (loathe the stuff as a rule!)

Answer 32

chocolate orange!! Mmmmmmmmm

Answer 33

ice pops and gravy and chips

Answer 34

I ate compost, soil, and peeled paint off walls i kid you not!!! Was warned obviously about my doctor!! Do not try this at home, also wanted to eat tarmac but to hard so had to sniff it!!

Answer 35

chocolate..at the moment with my second, it is banana sandwiches.

Answer 36

greens and jello

Answer 37

no such thing, its just an excuse to stuff your face, lazy preg. ladies. you are so dramatic when you are pregnant, just boring