Ok this should be good, and a little... nasty, but has anyone had any bizarre cravings while pregnant? I knew a lady who used to lick coal when she was pregnant.

Can you beat that?

My cravings didn't involve eating as it was a slight problem during pregnancy. I did have a strong craving for the smell of damp basements though and found myself tempted to lick the walls.

They say that its an instinctive urge to get extra vitamins or minerals into the body.
To help with making the baby.

yes, that's true. I shall now go and look up the healing properties of fust. :gag:

I know someone who chewed on natural sponges constantly, which I found very, very odd.

Lucky me, I just wanted bananas. And lots of 'em!

Salt and vinegar crisps, anything pickled - especially onions, pickled onion crisps, onion and cucumber in vinegar - you get the picture!

I didn't crave anything bizzare, but as someone who went totally off milk and anything milky about 25 years ago, it was strange that throughout this pregnancy I was craving all things milky - milk shakes, porridge, rice pudding, youghurt drinks etc

pickled onions with chocolate spread *yummy* i was also a fellow sponge chewer/sucker!!

The current Mrs Till developed a craving for Ribena in all its' full sugar glory. Bit of a problem since pregnancy sent her diabetic!

no cravings at all here, i went the other way - i actually didn't want to eat really anything at all, as everything made me vomit. i forced myself to eat the bear minimum of fruit and veg, took vitamins, and otherwise subsisted from week 3 of pregnancy until 2 days after giving birth on the blandest foods available.

actually, i had so much trouble with being sick and developing an aversion to food that i was prescribed high calorie/high fat milkshakes (like the ones that anorexics are tricked into drinking) as they were small enough that i could force them down and digest some before vomiting it back up. 600 calories in half a pint, no less! now i'm trying to shift the half a stone of pure lard that's still here 3 months later.

my craving was the smell of wet sponges just use to sniff it for ages and ages

with my first son it was carrots and spare ribs in syrup, my second it was anything really meaty that i cud sink my teeth in,, like chicken legs and steak (not together!) with my third (a girl) it was sponges,,, dont ask my why,, i just used to sit in the bath chewing on a sponge but it wud have to be full of water so i cud squeeze it out with my teeth,, im pregnant again this time is meaty things (yep agian) and dime bars!!

the wonders of pregnancy!

My only craving with my first child was chapattis (a little bland I know!) and I used to send my other half to the local indian take-away nearly every night for about 5! With my second it was chestnuts and pounds of them, but unfortunately the craving started about June (about 2 months into the pregnancy) and of course the chestnuts don't hit the shops til October, it nearly drove me mad! I used to dream about them and I could literally taste them! Anyway they eventually arrived in the shops and I ate pounds of them even though they gave me chronic heart burn! - on the opposite side to the cravings, in my 2nd pregnancy, I couldn't bear scented smells, anything that smelt 'nice' like perfume, washing power, air fresheners, conditioners etc etc I could have been sick. Shopping in the supermarket was a nightmare down the washing powder aisle!! I had to have EVERYTHING unscented which is so not me!! I'm back to normal now(though it took a while after the baby arrived) except I could still gip when I smell washing powder but I think it's psychological cause the baby will be two in February!!!

Hi Everyone.

I'm 37 weeks pregnant and have had a MAJOR craving for Sherbert Fountains and Swizzle Lollies :-)
I'm also partial to large glasses of fizzy pop - mainly Coke which is something that I normally cannot stomach :-)

Hiya,

I'm nearly 25 weeks, and not had cravings in particular but love fizzy pop, esp really cold sprite & 7 up, and I too have been eating fizzy and sour sweets. I had to stop using scented washing powders and softeners from about 8 weeks and stil cannot stand the smell of them, but I'm just about Ok with deodorant and normal handwash. Strange ain't it?

crispy seaweed and the smell of that really strong old fashioned soap - cant remember name. i used to stand and smell it in tescos - how embarrassing!

Whilst pregnant with my son, I craved pork scratchings dipped in sea food sauce..Followed by umpteen rennies to get rid off the heartburn..:D :D

do people really have coal cravings or is it old wives tale?
With my 1st i wanted crispy seaweed and with this one its mashed pots and white bread mmmmm

Threads merged.

I thought you might find these interesting, Nataliesheff. There's some really bizarre stuff here, lol.

crispy seaweed and the smell of that really strong old fashioned soap - cant remember name. i used to stand and smell it in tescos - how embarrassing!

Was it Wright's Coal Tar Soap?

Big sis knows a woman who ate birthday cake candles and the plaster she'd scraped off the living room walls throughout her pregnancy.

do people really have coal cravings or is it old wives tale?
With my 1st i wanted crispy seaweed and with this one its mashed pots and white bread mmmmm

My cousin did. This was years ago in the days of coal bunkers..she could be found sitting out in the coal bunker literally eating the coal. Yuk.

My first two pregnancies (girls) I craved maltesers constantly. The third (boy) I was too sick the whole time to crave anything.

I had a thing for tinned fruit - not the expensive 'in its own juices' stuff, it had to be the cheap nasty in synthetic syrup stuff. I don't actually like it, but for a few months it was all i ate...

ive been thinking about Crispy MOCK duck from Candy town for months and was really disappointed the other night when i had it :(

My mum craved raw ginger, she would eat big chunks of it, however the craving never went and she still does it :gag: Someone else I knew craved Avacado

So what causes these cravings? In instinctive urge to get vitamins and minerals from bizarre things?

I craved the smell of a certain cheap furniture polish that I get from the little hardware shop on Newfield Green (not the nicer Mr Muscle stuff though!), smell of petrol and was sneaking whiffs of a petrol lighter (not inhaling though mind just whiffing it under my nose!), and the smell fo anything like that eg creosote (yummy, always loved that!), and another odd one- I eat the stones from the middle of peaches, necatrines and plums often spending hours gnawing on the tougher ones. Didn't eat the pips from inside the stones though! People thought I was mad. Oh and I only really smoked when drinking alcohol before preg but at bout 5 months I craved for fags which I found very odd. Didn't though. Weird what the body does. Didn't crave food!

So what causes these cravings? In instinctive urge to get vitamins and minerals from bizarre things?

i think it is - before i even knew i was preggers i had to have marmite on everything (enriched with folic acid) and after that it was the fruit thing.

My mum craved broad beans - she even had em boiled with fish n chips! must have been the iron in them she needed

there must be a reason for cravings like when you really need a sugary drink b4 you pass out (due to anemia etc.)
or maybe its just because you CAN!!!

I craved Chalk ate loads of the stuff and still do nearly 4 yrs after - obviously this cocked my system up and had to go on iron tablets :hihi:

nothing weird for me, but with 1st craved chicken, was veggie at the time. with boys it was minted lamb, 1st boy milkshakes also, 2nd boy hot currys, with baby no4 i craved liver, and mac ds, hate mac ds usually must have been somthing to do with the salt content. but couldnt stand the smell of fried food (chipshops:gag: )

A lot of people on here have craved sponges - I'd be interested to know why that is, being so common?

nothing weird for me, but with 1st craved chicken, was veggie at the time.
oh god me too! been veggi years and all i can think about is chick-found a temp cure by gutting, cleaning, scrubbing and cooking one for hubby- after cutting all that gross skin, bum and yukky bits i get over it.

I'm 35 wks pg and have the same uncontrollable urge for sponge, when i am washing the pots we use sponge and scour pads and i have to have MY sponge close by cause the urge is sooooo strong, i also like the smell of things like petrol or going into a car repair garage and smelling the air (i try to avoid the latter ones though, but for some reason i have a real big aversion for garlick YUK YUK YUK YUK. :gag:

bringing this thread back up. Has anyone or is anyone having any cravings as such.

I dont think i am, even tho im lovin big mac meals at the moment, so maybe this is one. But not to the point id cry if i dint have one.

Maybe i thought cravings were like u have to have them right now kinda thing, but maybe not.

i had a few things i fancied earlier on in my pregnancy. But not so much now.

when i was pregnant with my first..all i wanted was a pork sandwich with apple sauce from beres pork shop..mmmmmmm
but the weird thing was i didnt wasnt the pork,i just wanted the bread with stuffin,dip and apple sauce...lol

sarah xx

im 29 weeks at the mo and in the early days all i wanted to eat was tomato ketchup and liqourice (not together) then the cravings went quiet for a while, until the other day when all i could think of was dipping chips in melted chocolate - and b4 u say anything it was actually V nice!

I am 3 months pregnant. Sometimes I really fancy something like fish and chips, chocolate, fizzy pop but I don't crave them all the time (not yet anyway).

Just now I really want some pop and I can't get none, I'm having to have water :( (suppose its better for us) It's really bad when you really want something but can't have it!

didn`t really have bizarre cravings but ate hundreds of packets of giant parma violets. I had packets of them stashed in key locations around the house(even in the bathroom) and if anyone took them i`d go mental. I knew I`d got a real problem with them when my oh stripped the bed and loads of parmaviolets flew out of the duvet cover!

im lovin sweets at the moment. refresher bars etc. got sum in my bag now. savin them for 2moz :D

Fresh stuff, which is lucky. Plums, pineapples, grapes...anything fresh. Milk is making me:gag: . And I'm tired of anything too sweet/processed.

right now, ive completly gone off chocolate. cant go near the stuff, the taste the smell the texture all make me want to vomit. and when i have eaten it i have vomited, mind you saying that is a small miracle if i keep a meal down.

i wouldnt say mine are cravings as such more just stuff i really got to eat..
i.e steak pie, not the crust just the chunky meat. citrus stuff... when people get out the cleaning wipes at work i have to hunt the culprit down and sit with one on my desk to sniff.
lime cordial, orange cordial, slices of citrus fruit in water....

maybe i am craving stuff after all!!!

Fresh stuff, which is lucky. Plums, pineapples, grapes...anything fresh. Milk is making me:gag: . And I'm tired of anything too sweet/processed.

that happened with me - milk made me :gag: aswell. I also had a problem brushing my teeth as toothpaste made me :gag:

Hi All,

What's the weirdest thing you craved while pregnant?

I had a variety with dd, first craving was haggis (I'm scottish so when she was born I lived in Glasgow and this is freely available) I then crave toast with choc spread and scrambled egg and then from about 6 months I just couldn't get enough pineapple. I'd never been a big fan of pineapple before but to this day I still love it!

I hope this time it's something normal and I don't want to eat grated soap or anything lol

I only craved right at the beginning-we're talking 5 weeks or so here. I wanted cheeseburgers and coca cola all the time. But the cravings faded after about a month and a half and I didn't get anymore! I think it just means that my little man loves all his food without bias lol. Can't wait til he starts on solid food! :D

I hope you don't crave grated soap! Can't imagine that being very sustaining? I've heard about women dipping their fingers in ash and licking it too! Something about digestion? Eurgh!

No real cravings here. In fact, I've had the entire oppposite and have really had to force myself to eat ANYTHING! To start with, I ate a huge amount of fruit but I'm not sure whether it was a craving or all I felt vaguely hungry for? And while I've obviously gained the baby weight for the past 20 weeks, it seems to have sucked the fat from the rest of my body... The other day one of my rings fell off while I was washing my hair - it's all a little strange! Not that I'm complainng, but it is comepletely different to what I expected!

i havent had the same cravings all way through, i crave different things...

for instance steak pie with mash, i craved a sausage butty and we didnt have any in, so i got a taxi to the asda to buy some then a taxi home. £25 for a sausage butty not bad!!

recently its citrus flavoured things. such as orange callypo. dont want to eat fresh oranges as such, although there was a brief spell of them. and my mums citrus washing up liquid nearly got eaten!!

With bails at the start it was cucumber, I was eating about 3 a day. Josh was ice lollies at the end

I am really "craving" or at least have a fancy for jacket potatoes with cheese and coleslaw........ mmmmhhhhhh yummy

mine was haribo fizzy cola bottles, i ate them by the bag load and my friends always brought a bag with them when they came to visit! I also couldn't get enough orange juice.

I didn't have any cravings as such with my daughter, but with my son, I craved for pork scratchings dipped in seafood sauce..:D

lol that sounds disgusting but I'm sure it was the nicest thing ever to you! isn't pregnancy great :)

im craving sweets,fruit,yogurts, ice cream, and ice lollies
im just glad you get free dental treatment now! lol

lol I know just as well

Mine was tinned tomatoes, and /or anything with a really beefy meaty gravy sauce. ,

im craving sweets,fruit,yogurts, ice cream, and ice lollies
im just glad you get free dental treatment now! lol

Im craving same, ice lollies, chocolate,fruit and pure fruit juice. Can't stand tea or coffee

It's weird though isn't it that our bodies crave things but reject others that we normally like. How strange we are!

It's weird though isn't it that our bodies crave things but reject others that we normally like. How strange we are!

Im missing a nice cup of coffee and tea. Ecspecially when i wake in morning. But when i drink it ,it leaves a metallic taste in my mouth. yuk and that makes me feel sick charlie x

lol i went to have some weetabix this mornign and usually I slice a banana over it but banana which used to be my fav fruit now makes me gip at the thought/smell!

I'm missing it already x

i had different ones with all mine, with my eldest daughter it was roast dinners in a big way, and also beef dripping, my poor partner once had to drive all over sheffield trying to find a butchers that sold it as they only had pork dripping!
with my son it was sweets especially the really sour ones and chinese food. with my younger daughter it was chocolate, or cheese doritoes, again of which my poor partner had to make many a midnight dash for! i also craved ice pops with all 3 of them.

i also craved ice pops

Yeah me too!

ooo forgot to say with my first i actually did crave. Celery dipped in dorito mild salsa sauce. yummy. lol

Celery! yucky yuck yuck

HI, I have three boys and had a different craving with each pregnancy. Baby no1 (Liam)
was cream eggs filled with cockles, baby no2 (Luke) was grated cheese soaked in vinigar and baby no3 Lelan was satsumas on toast. I would never have dreamed of eating that lot before and never have since.

Oh my god! Those are the weirdest cravings I have ever heard!! Cockles! *gip*

that is pretty horrible! the things our babies do to us

i had different ones with baby 1 it was sausage roll with custard on an baby number 2 was parkin with custard an solaro ice lollys an the odd white wine spritzer :love:

i had different ones with baby 1 it was sausage roll with custard on an baby number 2 was parkin with custard an solaro ice lollys an the odd white wine spritzer :love:

My best mate craved sponge as in bath sponges. She use to chew on the sponge yuk. She didnt swallow it though. eeek it's going through me now.

I'm proper craving jacket potatoes, with nothing but butter on them, or coleslaw or cheese or beans or anything really

The other day i did dip my chips in coca cola TASTY!!!! LOL

I just want junk food :(

pizza, kfc, chips, burgers... anything bad :(

sadly i can only eat chips out of that lot :(

The O/H has been craving jacket potato with choc and hazlenut spread ( nutella ), citrus type stuff, and cold stuff.

Doesn't help that she likes her wine, and hasn't had any since we found out :-)

Chalk .....

And I still eat it now and they are 4 :loopy:

I'm liking toast. Has to be hard like cardboard with butter not marg mmmhhhh I wake up in the night hungry a lot and think about toast. I've made the effort to not get up and feed myself during the night though! I'll be the size of a house if I do

Celery, Beef, Tomatoes, Fruit- When its in the house! :D x

C,mon you ladies with families, what was your food craving
when you was pregnant.
Mine was potted meat sandwiches.

you might be best posting this in the parenting group - http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=84

Nothing specific to date, just anything and everything :)

With DS 1 it was pickled onion crisps and mushy peas
DS 2 was ice pops, 40 a day average
This one its anything and everything at the moment :hihi:

At the moment I'm loving scrambled eggs on toast with loads of butter :love: I've also been craving crumpets with strawberry jam and cheese on. Frozen yogurt is one of my best friends as well :love:

Kebabs with loads of chilli, the hotter the better...not really good at 3 in the morning:hihi:

With mi daughter it was Fuse bars.

With the twins I dont think I had one:suspect:

With DS 1 it was pickled onion crisps and mushy peas


:gag:.................................

Not together you fool :hihi:

With my first it was, the dorito salsa dip with celery. Used to sit dipping celery in it for hrs used to buy 2-3 pots of salsa every night. Also korma curry,thats all i ever eat.
This time im having a girl and i have craved sweet things fruit ,fruit juices.And mars ice creams yummy.

With my first it was Mars Bars with Salad Cream :huh: :hihi: then I had a thing for about 10 Sherbet Dibdabs a day.

do they still do fuse bars?!!?!?! I'd totally forgoten about them they are the best!!

I've never been pregnant but my mum used to get cravings for mud, lambs trotters, chalk and gherkins

with my first it was beres pork sarnies with apple sauce but without the pork, i just wanted the breadcake with all the trimmings...:hihi:
but with my 2nd it was anything and everything

vinegar and loads of it!

oh and digestive biccies :D

One of my sister's friends had a thing for birthday cake candles when she was pregnant. I have no idea which missing mineral that's supposed to replace.

Banana dipped in curry sauce with my first and endless sauage rolls and asparagus with my second i was crazy for it, it became an all consuming passion, didn't seem strange at the time:gag:

With my first, I had terrible morning sickness that lasted all day but was never actually sick, until one morning when I had Weetabix for breakfast followed by a desperate craving for Dandelion and Burdock pop. It all came straight back!

With my second I had a craving for the smell of nail varnish. Which actually ended in me becoming addicted to pear drops for the remaining months. Does anyone else think that pear drops taste like the smell of nail varnish?

I was walking through town the other day and smelt the most wonderful smell. My partner quickly informed me it was a smell of paint :love:

This sounds very weird but its more common than you think, I used the crave the smell of carpets and the cheap crock shoe smell. Weird I know but I never really had any craving for foods apart from tomatoes and celery.

at the moment I'm into chomp ping into ice cube . people think im crazy when they see me eating them. mmmmmm i think ill go and get some out of freezer now iv told you ...

I craved sweets, that was all, really pretty boring compared to sponges :hihi: I couldnt eat anything greasy, the thought of frying anything made me :gag:

I used to look in the freezer for tea and want to throw up, nasty.

I craved really dirty dusters. I even pinched one from work on my last day. Kept it in my bag for ages. Even when I was taken in to hospital to have my son. I also was addicted to shoe polish and would clean the shoes over and over whilst drinking a slush puppy (in winter!). Hoover bags aswell! I used to make my friends and family save changing the hoover bags for me to do it. And I liked plaster on the walls that had just dried.

My craving so far is MEAT. glorious glorious meat. I stand in the butchers aisle and drool

Cravings so far.. Salt and vinegar crisps, ice lollies (Yes, december at night chomping through 6-7 ice lollies in one go!) ALL vegetables, and red wine. The smell of that sweeties factory in hillsborough too (When they're making them lemon things MMMM)

Hi just thought i'd start a new one has anyone had any weird cravings if so what or had monster munchies like me :hihi:

Thanks

cereal, cereal, cereal, kfc (which i can't eat), chips, ermm.... thats it really

at 42 weeks i'm as bad as i was half way thru!!!

:hihi: i went to 42 weeks with my daughter until they decided to induce me thank god i hope you have baby soon iv quite a few weeks to go yet :hihi: till im 42 weeks

Mine was stuffing and gravy then it went to Gingerbread men. I'm still having cravings for Gingerbread men now and i'm not even pregnant :huh: :hihi:

Have you found out how many weeks you are yet cuteykat? :)

:hihi: i went to 42 weeks with my daughter until they decided to induce me thank god i hope you have baby soon iv quite a few weeks to go yet :hihi: till im 42 weeks

Friday at the latest :) We're all booked in and the eviction notice has been served!!!! :evil:

Banana and curry with my first and asparagus with everything with my second, didn't seem weird at the time but don't think i could eat either now, yeuch!

with my dauhter it was sausage rolls with custard an with my son parkin an custard an solaro ice lollys anthe odd white wine spritzer:hihi:

Friday at the latest :) We're all booked in and the eviction notice has been served!!!! :evil:

:hihi: aww i hope it alls goes well baby might come b4 that hopefully

DS 1 was anything fast food wise
DS 2 Ice lollies
This time its anything and just about everything :hihi:

with my dauhter it was sausage rolls with custard an with my son parkin an custard an solaro ice lollys anthe odd white wine spritzer:hihi:

That is so disgusting, isn't it crazy!

That is so disgusting, isn't it crazy!

:hihi: i cant remember wot mine were with my others,
this time up to now im eating anythink and everythink :hihi:

Someone I know craved shoe polish. Actually ate it too :gag:

Someone I know craved shoe polish. Actually ate it too :gag:

:gag: Thanks peaches :hihi: i think im going to b sick now my sickness is just starting and i get it real bad

Sorry Cuteykat

ice cubes Hmmmmmmm:love::love::love::love:

Sorry Cuteykat

Its ok im not that bad yet with my 1st a girl no matter where i went that was it i couldnt get out of bed without having sumut to eat my dad use to come up with 4 slices of toast 2 eggs bacon sausages beans etc etc every morning asnd a cup of tea and i cant stand tea lol

ice cubes Hmmmmmmm:love::love::love::love:

:hihi::hihi::hihi: i read that in emmas diary this lady sat eating trays of it (cant remember her name not read it all yet)

Thought you'd enjoy having a look at all the other weird cravings people have admitted here...:gag:

I was walking through town the other day and smelt the most wonderful smell. My partner quickly informed me it was a smell of paint :love:

I loved the smell of emulsion while pregnant :love: but the smell of just about everything else would make me vomit exorcist style :gag:

My craving was a fresh squishy white breadcake with a thick layer of butter, scraps from the chippy lots of salt & vinegar oh and mushy peas on top....*drool*

my craving was the smell of wet sponges just use to sniff it for ages and ages

mine was even worse i was addicted to disinfectant before the days of glue sniffing i used to put disinfectant on cotton wool and sniff it when i was in nether edge i followed the cleaners strange behaviour for someone so respectable

Another pregnancy it was black dog biscuits i bought spillars shapes and just picked out the black ones "carbon deficiency" ?

Chalk .....Loved it ....ate Packet after Packet :suspect: (white only) still eating now 4 years on .....:|

:hihi::hihi::hihi: i read that in emmas diary this lady sat eating trays of it (cant remember her name not read it all yet)

oooh ice lollies homemade pineapple lollies from that little sweet shop on the corner of nether edge road and sheldon road joe scarboroughs wife used to make extra boxes just for pregnant me

I loved the smell of jeyes fluid with my first, had forgotten that.

thats the one jeyes fluid in a square tin what is in it have they got a secret recipe just for pregnant women what about the insides of crunchie bars used to cut all the choc off and just crunch!

Vinegar.. and salt.. and sweetcorn. And anything cold or anything really spicy. Lol. Its weird. I really love fish, chips and gravy from the chippy :love: