when i was pregnat with my son i used to eat satsuma + twiglet sandwiches, and crave petrol and most things like that,
I used to love going past a builing site to smell the dust and in the petrol station ( i only smelt the stuff dont worry i never went there ).
With my daughtyer it was fruit n nut( the big bars) and the same again but not as strong with the petrol etc...
I have herd it is a lack of something (iron ?)
With both i drank 4 pints of milk a day (but suffered lots with heart burn )
and must say everyone said milk makes the babys bones grow and some where it must be true my son was 9lb 12oz
(c section before u say ouch )
and my daughter was 8lb 9oz at a week early as i had a elected c section

so what did/does everyone else crave

With baby no 1 it was pickled onions. I used to eat theem by the jar full and used to have a packet of Walkers pickled onion flavoured crisps everday.

Baby no 2 brought a craving for Refresher sweets. I had to make sure that I had a plentiful supply but occasionally got caught out............. my hubby was to be seen doing the rounds of 24hr petrol stations at 2am.

With my first, my partner had me running around for chips and curry, and if she couldnt get it she went mad at me, then it changed to chips and beans, no wonder my son loves chips!!

With my daughter I ate loads of liver!! I hated it before and wouldn't touch it with a barge pole now!! Iused to microwave it and eat it in sandwiches. I know it's frowned on now as not suitable for pregnant women (thank goodness!!)

With my son I ate tray after tray of ice cubes. I would sit and crunch them one at a time. Yummy!! I also had a real 'thing' for cheap pine disinfectant. I had a really strong urge to drink it but of course I didn't! Instead I used to dilute it down into a spray bottle and spray it where ever I was sat so I could smell it. I also put in on cloths that I then put to my face to smell/breathe in!!

I also ate loads of bacon, despite the fact that I was a vegi!!

How odd!!

My mum had serious cravings for vanilla slices when she was pregnant with me, she ate that many everyone thought I was going to pop out looking like a big vinilla slice :?

I think she single handedly kept Fletchers bread vans going for 9 months buying vinilla slices every day :P

I craved curry with my second pregnancy, in fact I ate curry every day for over 2 weeks (sometimes twice a day!)

bacon sandwiches. not given in yet though (am vegi). strange as i always disliked bacon, even as a meat eater. i actually dreamed about cooking it, cutting off the fat and yukky bit, washing it in hot water to get white bits off, and havin it on sandwich with hendersons?!?!

At first Pink Grapefruit, Had to be pink no other would do and I had about three a day. I suffered terrible morning sickness and it was all I could manage to keep down.

Later on Fizzy Vimto. Was the best day of my life when a customer walked into the pub I ran at the time with a crate of the stuff for me. Think that lasted about a day. For some reason, my son won't touch the stuff!

Pickled onion crisps also, cant stand pickled onions either, and b4 i knew i was pregnant as well. When i couldnt get them was cheese and onion.

Cold pizza with tuna! The lady with the tea trolly where I worked used to save me a slice of pizza from the day before and I'd have it for breakfast!

This craving gave way to cauliflower cheese which I ate morning, noon and night. Can't stand the stuff now.

When I was pregnant....had the chip pan on for 9 month...BLISS

Originally posted by NatalieSheff
bacon sandwiches. not given in yet though (am vegi). strange as i always disliked bacon, even as a meat eater. i actually dreamed about cooking it, cutting off the fat and yukky bit, washing it in hot water to get white bits off, and havin it on sandwich with hendersons?!?!

Is it not too early on in your pregnancy to have food cravings :?

Originally posted by kate_sheff

Later on Fizzy Vimto. Was the best day of my life when a customer walked into the pub I ran at the time with a crate of the stuff for me. Think that lasted about a day. For some reason, my son won't touch the stuff!

When my mum was pregnant with me, she had a craving for Guinness.

Now, in small town Nottinghamshire in 1961 it wasn't the done thing for pregnant women to go in to pubs, so quite frequently my mum had to put up with her cravings.

When I was born, for days afterwards I was licking my lips, as if I'd picked up on mum's feelings!

It took me 30 years to start drinking Guinness, and now I adore it!

Joe

With my first, it was Bitter Lemon (but only with lots of ice) - for the last three months I drank two litres a day - and my god did it give me heartburn - yet I still drank it. :loopy:

With my second it was egg mayonnaise sandwiches (made whil e the egg was still warm so that it slightly melted the butter on the bread) - god they hit the spot:D

When my mum was pregnant with me, her craving was for Clarnico Mint Creams, and even though you hardly see them around any more I absolutely adore them even though everyone else thinks they're a bit yukky!

now i feel a bit wierd reading them.. so far i havent had any cravings that i have noticed! maybe its too early yet? when did people start to get cravings??

just noticed that i have had to eat a lot more food than i did before (considering i didnt eat very much its quite strange)

I'm feeling really left out! I'm 8 months pregnant and haven't had a craving yet !

My mum never had any cravings with me or my little bro, she just went off things, mainly the unhealthy things like coffee and fried food, she couldn't even stand the smell of a frying pan warming up, never mind the smell of food in it!!!!

I'm feeling really left out! I'm 8 months pregnant and haven't had a craving yet !

well at least i'm not the only one then!!

My mum never had any cravings with me or my little bro, she just went off things, mainly the unhealthy things like coffee and fried food, she couldn't even stand the smell of a frying pan warming up, never mind the smell of food in it!!!!

i havent noticed any cravings but i have gone off a lot of stuff (or the smells of stuff)

ah well.. not long to go now

Originally posted by Angel05
Is it not too early on in your pregnancy to have food cravings :?
probably who knows? been feeling faint and sick since week three?? its crazy

I craved shephards pie when I was pregnant with my son but the shephards pie had to be stone cold, I absolutely hated hot foods and went right off Roast Dinners.

I suffered bad heartburn as well, I was told that it meant the baby has alot of hair and when my son was born by c section on Christmas Day he had a mop of jet black hair and weighted 7lb 14 oz.

I enjoyed the pregnancy I thought it was great, cant wait to do it all over again someday.

Originally posted by NatalieSheff
probably who knows? been feeling faint and sick since week three?? its crazy

How far gone are you? have you not had any cravings?

The craving I had all through my first pregnancy was for maltesers. Like others here, I also had poor hubby trawling the late night garages when supplies ran low. Other cravings came and went (including one very fattening phase of scones with clotted cream). The weird thing was, my mum was going through chemotherapy at the time and we found we often had the same cravings. When she was feeling really sick and unable to eat anything she'd phone me up and ask what my craving was at that moment, and she usually found she was able to eat that particular thing!

i read in a mothercare book you crave starchy type foods from week 6? its an old book though! it scares me the thought of a thing inside you, dont know how id feel when it moves....i just keep thinking sigorney weaver in alien

I'm 6 months on, and still no cravings, either. Went off things during the first trimester, but mainly I'm just hungrier.

I did have an artichoke hearts thing at about 12-14 weeks, couldn't get enough, but that was it. And one morning when I made my lovely husband take me to Little Chef for pancakes and hash browns with maple syrup, which he was dreading would become a craving, but it never did.

Kind of feel like I'm missing out, lol.

Cosywolf:P

Wait, hold on...I do have 2 major, barely controllable cravings...

A bottle of really nice, ice cold Chardonnay...the whole thing, at one sitting...

AND GIVE ME A CIGARETTE!!!!!!!

Though of course, I wouldn't dream of it.

Okay, so I dream of it.

Wouldn't do it, though.

Okay, so just the odd glass of wine.

Six glasses in six months.

No ciggies.

Honest.

Cosy:D

Originally posted by cosywolf
Wait, hold on...I do have 2 major, barely controllable cravings...

A bottle of really nice, ice cold Chardonnay...the whole thing, at one sitting...

AND GIVE ME A CIGARETTE!!!!!!!

Though of course, I wouldn't dream of it.

Okay, so I dream of it.

Wouldn't do it, though.

Okay, so just the odd glass of wine.

Six glasses in six months.

No ciggies.

Honest.

Cosy:D

cravings ......
you crave what you cant have and when its there ur not bothered lol
i think its a hormone to feel the power and send our blokes out at 2am to get stuff ;) :thumbsup:

I went completely off tea and started craving Chocolate (somehow I never went off that!!!) and orange ice lollies.

My Mom had really bad cravings for corn flakes when she was pregnant with me, but could only eat them when they were REALLY crunchy. My Dad was apparrently finding half eaten bowles of flakes all over the kitchen!

That said she also smoked 60 cigarettes a day throughout her entire pregnancy. The doctors kept warning her that I would be tiny, but I weighed 8lb 4oz, and I'm now 6ft 6in! :D

If she hadn't smoked, would I have been in the Guinness Book of Records?

K x

I started bout 4 months with cravings with my first it was pickled onions and the smell of petrol and I loved the smell of bleach then with my second it was cadburys fuse bars I ate about 6 every day and every night I would have a kebab with loads and loads of chili sauce then spend the rest of the night complaining of heart burn! With my twins I didnt have any cravings I was sick every day for 8 months.

with my third child i was craving cadburys creme eggs and yes it was around november time!...luckily they start selling them again after xmas so i dint have long to wait!
SW

milk seems to taste funny, im crying at stupid things and sick of feeling sick HELP! im so tired as well....any answers? perllllllease

Both times I was pregnant EVERYTHING tasted funny for the first four months (horrid metallic taste - a bit like dirty pennies) I used to suck Kop-Kops (sp?) and Kola Kubes which helped a little. The sickness will pass eventually (mine was completely gone by 5 months) as will the tiredness (also usually goes by about five months). The only thing I can recommend is try and get plenty of little cat-naps in if you can (it does help). Have you tried ginger tea (lemon and ginger is lovely), or nibbling on little pieces of stem ginger (or even ginger nut biscuits can help) for the nausea - ginger can help take the edge off and make it a little more bearable.

Hang on in there by about six months you should be feeling more human again - which just leaves you with the wanting to pee all the time to look forward to from seven months onwards when the baby decides to take up residence on top of your bladder:D

With my first I craved pickles - used to eat jars of them at a time. Luckily that passed after 3 months and I started to crave flumps - used to get sweet shop sized buckets of them from Makro!

With my second I had a craving for strawberry shoe laces and wham bars for the entire pregnancy - yum!

I always crave chocolate... but then I'm male, and not "up the duff", so this is possibly a little off topic ;)

Originally posted by Rubysoho
Both times I was pregnant EVERYTHING tasted funny for the first four months (horrid metallic taste - a bit like dirty pennies) I used to suck Kop-Kops (sp?) and Kola Kubes which helped a little. The sickness will pass eventually (mine was completely gone by 5 months) as will the tiredness (also usually goes by about five months). The only thing I can recommend is try and get plenty of little cat-naps in if you can (it does help). Have you tried ginger tea (lemon and ginger is lovely), or nibbling on little pieces of stem ginger (or even ginger nut biscuits can help) for the nausea - ginger can help take the edge off and make it a little more bearable.


yeah getting the acid gross taste, just wish i would BE sick. having lots of ginger and lemon tea and ginger biscuits, even tried ginger cordial - yuk! i like the nibbling and cola cube idea!! thanks
craigB - i think youre secretly a girl! you chocolate lover you!

Originally posted by NatalieSheff
yeah getting the acid gross taste, just wish i would BE sick. having lots of ginger and lemon tea and ginger biscuits, even tried ginger cordial - yuk! i like the nibbling and cola cube idea!! thanks
craigB - i think youre secretly a girl! you chocolate lover you!
LOL - only at heart ;)

Okay, so since I last posted, I can finally say I'm under the spell of a craving...BANANAS!:banana: :banana:

Bananas in my porridge, banana milkshakes, banana sandwiches, marshmallow banana sweets, plain bananas, bananas on pizza....yummmyyy!!!:banana: :banana:

!!!!:clap: And all you mummies-to-be, especially first-timers like me, or if you're having a rough time of it, try this website...bounty (http://www.bounty.com) . The discussion forums are a godsend...lots of women going through exactly the same things, every stage of pregnancy catered for, loads of nice people, and a really good laugh.
If you come on, come find me in 'Due in May' and say hello!

Cosy:D

mine was herby sausage and i went through a big tub of full fat mayo every other day, then i went to fruity stuff like grapes and oranges because i couldnt eat anything else morning sickness lasted all day.........then it went to saulty chips thats all i wanted...... well the mayo did put quiet a few pounds in the first trimesta try 2 stone in first 2 months..........

my auntie used to own the local pub and noticed that the blue things that you put in the toilets kept going missing... you are not going to believe this but my auntie walked in the toilet to find the local pregnant girl munching on one! she admitted that she had took quite a few and appologised, we all just laughed but it was quite worrying and very bizarre... apparently when she used to go in with her husband to drink orange juice she got really bad cravings for them :suspect: :gag:

lol and here's me thinking i was wired lol

Huh, some weird stuff going on out there.

One colleague would eat chalk, didn't matter what colour, just chalk. I guess she was in need of calcium (?) and it sure would have stopped the heartburn :hihi:

First child: ate loads of boy-food; jacket potatoes, mashed potatoes, stodge, bread and butter pudding and I ate those revolting nylon marshmallow things between two puny balsa wood wafers called Pink and Whites - beeyak! I also went off brown bread, I could NOT stomach it.

I had a boy.

Second child: Greek salad. ALL THE TIME! Lots of fruit, rich tea biscuits first thing in the morning and could only eat coco pops for breakfast for first 5 months, then I turned into the Marmite Monster.

I had a girl.

This time: I'm a veggie and I'm craving fish like tuna, smoked salmon, anchovies and salade niçoise. Bizwoire!

Any ideas any one?

Originally posted by aj1980

lol and here's me thinking i was wired lol

Maybe you are wired aj1980. Have you checked to see if you are mains or battery :hihi:

It started off ok, I wanted midget gems, mushy peas, I had a jacket spud every day, and KFC:gag: I even had a thing for milk even though I don't like it.

I felt like I wanted something salty all the time.

Towards the end though things got weird, I stopped smoking and my cravings went through the roof, I wanted to chew ice cubes, eat dust, fag ash and chalk. I know people think I am making it up but I actually ate those things, I didn't like them but the craving was always there. we where painting the living room and the wall paper was took down, so I decided to lick the wall to see if it would take it away, very odd:loopy:

When my mum was pregnant with me she used to knaw her teeth into beeswax:loopy: and eat raw ginger:gag:

well i completly when of jam or any spread like that and just wanted creamy coffee, i couldnt touch jam for weeks after and now ive slowly started to have it again, alchol was a big no no thought of it or smell of it put me about even smell on someones breath made me run for the loo..............lol
well my mum used to have conflakes n fried egg on top of them when she was pregnant with me so i wana be lucky i didnt have anything like that lol...

when i was pregnant i craved burnt bacon fat and went off chocolate and never like it as much as i used to since.

With my first I craved orange ice lollies and Tab cola (before diet coke), I went off fish and could not stand the smell of orange peel! I existed mainly on cheese sarnies & egg & chips.
With my second, I cant remember having any real cravings - just went off coffee, and felt sick for a couple of months.
Must have done it right though, first was 9lb 6 oz & second 10lb 8oz - both boys.

I LOVE milk, we go through about 24 pints a week. Its even better with strawberry crusha in it!!
Also pepperoni pizza is now a must 3 small pizzas a day!!
I went through a faze for rice.
Gone off crisps as well.

it so wired what our bodies craves through pregnancy,

currently, bacon

A breadcake slathered with butter then filled with scraps from the chippy soaked in salt and vinager topped with mushy peas :gag: