General Chat

With the 1st, I couldn´t stand the smell of tea or potatoes.
Haven´t drunk tea since unless I have to for the sake of politeness.
No problems with the second one way or the other.

With the first one it was grapes, chocolate digestives and egg sandwiches. The second one it was McLeans toothpaste - tube a day. She has the most beautiful teeth now.

Not me (I never stayed preggie long enough to get cravings)

My Mother, when she was expecting me ~ craved boiled eggs! Many things in the UK were still rationed, including eggs, but my grandparents had their own chickens........ Mum ate at least six boiled eggs every day!

I was told I wouldn't eat eggs when I was young. If Mum tried to make me eat an egg (particularly a boiled one) I would spit it out.

I had awful morning sickness right up to 7plus months.the only thing I could keep down in the mornings was Lucozade so drank several bottles of that day.

The smell of tea made me retch.all through the pregnancy

I had just had our daughter after 36hours of labour !!! hadnt had anything to eat for about 14 hours as couldnt face it. A nurse popped in to see if i was ok whilst still in delivery and waiting for the doc as needed stitches ,and she asked me if i wanted some tea. I started to say no i cant drink it when i got the overwhelming feeling YES PLEASE i would love a cup. Got a tray bought in all laden with a small teapot etc and thoroughly enjoyed almost 3 cups from the pot.

Strawberries for both of my summer pregnancies. I even took cubes of strawberry jelly to eat at work,while I sat at my sewing machine,and I still love them :-D

I was told years later (after she had died) that Mam had a craving for strawberries when she was expecting me.

Still love them,well they're in my genes :-D

edit: must mention a good friend of mine used to eat tailor's chalk when she was pregnant.:-S...and she had 4 children,including twins,so it didn't harm her babies.

Boiled skate and granny smith's apples with first child.

Second one was a great desire to eat tar and coal. :-)

Emma

With first I had morning sickness all day but then I began to waken in middle of night demanding chips. With second I only wanted iced orange squash and sucked ice cubes - middle of February with my gmother crying - that baby will be born with pneumonis!

Neighbour gave me her coalhouse key to keep (it was summer) and she could not resist the small shiny pieces of coal.

My babies - the first would kill for chips - anytime and the second never drank anything but water or orange squash until about 18yrs old.

I craved chinese and the smell of hotwater bottles when filled with hot water!!

Jules x

It's so long ago, I can't remember LOLOL

Julia in Derbyshire

Remember with my first it was " corona cherryade "
and with my second one it was peaches.

With my eldest it was ice creams
With my second it was mustard piccalilli
with my third it was anything sweet

Pickled eggs. Usually craved them late at night or woke up in the night. So..... I pickled my own. Got 4 in a jam jar! kept it at the side of my bed. It was the same for both pregnancies and all 3 of my daughters (I had twins) love pickled eggs!!!

Dee

My daughter is full term so it 'any day' but for the past 4 months she has chewed on bath sponges,,,not eating them..just chewing , If they'v got the exfoliator pad on the other side then thats even better.

Dee, I also craved pickled eggs but they had to be bought from the chippy and come in a grease proof paper bag,,and i had to have a bottle of pale ale to go with it,,
Also orange juice but had to drinl it stood in the garden because it tasted different there.

I didn't have any cravings and I'm,
glad if some of these are anything to go by :-D

don't they say that cravings are the body asking for something it needs? So e,g, maybe tailors chalk is calcium.

I munched my way through loads of packets of crisps with daughter number one and she loves crisps. With daughter number two I couldn't stand crisps and just the smell of them made me feel sick, she doesn't like crisps at all.

my friend loved the smell of dog food,and i used to sniff nail varnish while carrying my 4th child. :-D

My middle daughter loved the taste of wet plaster off the wall, and a wet flannel with her two oldest, every room you went into there would be a flannel that she had been sucking.

Not just me then....... like Linda & Winnie55's daughters it was sucking moist flannels .....have to admit I sometimes get the odd urge even now ;-)

With my eldest it was Marks & Sparks treacle tarts

With my first it was peanut butter-by the spoonful straight from the jar.

Can't remember any particular cravings with the second pregnancy-but with each one I couldn't stand the smell of meat frying,it made me dry retch. Smelling cigarette smoke had the same effect,particularly if it was in a confined space,like a car.


Margot.