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Q: Anyone Have Weird Cravings?
asked by: hopefulmjz on February 19th, 2006
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Has anyone had any really unusual food cravings during any of your pregnancies? I haven't had any unusual ones, just expensive ones! For the past 6 or 7 months i've really wanted lobster and it would never fail the few times I would turn the tv on a red lobster commercial would be on. My hubby took me out for steak and lobster on valentines day, so the lobster craving was settled for that day.....Only to wake up the next day still craving lobster. I've also been craving oranges and those baked ruffles chips, the cheddar and sour cream flavor. How long does it take for the cravings to go away after the baby is born? Just curious. Thanks.
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fatfamily02
replied on February 19th, 2006
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Hi hon, how are you doing?
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snowygirl
replied on February 19th, 2006
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Hehe
Well im ttc and not preggy yet lol but I crave for potato chips lately a lot. Wonder that mean I might be preggy =)
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justacanadiangirl
replied on February 19th, 2006
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I am waiting to test at the moment but i've found myself craving salty salty foods lately. Which is not normal for me...
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michelle1981
replied on February 19th, 2006
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Vee, it's not here yet??? Ooooooh :)
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yellow ribbon
replied on February 19th, 2006
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I personally love the smell of ne thing having to do with laundry dryer sheeets detergent even have some spray called clean laundry. With my daughter I really just wanted to eat it it smelled so good but with this one I jsut smell it every time I do laundry and occasionally I smell the sryer sheets when I see them lol food wise tho I jsut want everything I see when im at the store but then I get home and it all looks gross
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hopefulmjz
replied on February 19th, 2006
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Fatfamily, i'm doing really good lately....Thanks for asking. How about yourself?

Macysmom, I also love the smell of laundry soap. I've gone thru a lot of different brands lately trying to find the one I like best. So far I really like tide, then I use downy clean breeze fabric softner and it smells like heaven! I just got a new box of tide with febreeze....Haven't tried that yet because I still have almost a half a box of the other tide. I did buy dreft to wash all the baby clothes, but it smelled kinda weird to me. Same with shampoo, I almost never use the same kind twice because I like to use new kinds. Hopefully this will all pass once the baby is born so we don't end up having stock in laundry detergent and shampoo lol
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fatfamily02
replied on February 19th, 2006
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Ha ha ha

i like the smell of gas--but has nothing to do with this pregnancy. And exhaust--how strange huh--i just told my husband of 9 years my secret--and he thinks im weird. Lol

as far as cravings--bacon-i love bacon--i love smelling it cook too. I could eat it 10 times a day. Normally I like it okay--usually tastes too salty to me. But not now. Takes like heaven. Cant think of anything else.
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rainy1279
replied on February 19th, 2006
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I too love the smell of gas, before I got pregnant... I could spend all day at a gas pump... So your not the only one that's weird :)
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justacanadiangirl
replied on February 19th, 2006
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Re: Hehe
snowygirl wrote:
well im ttc and not preggy yet lol but I crave for potato chips lately a lot. Wonder that mean I might be preggy =)


u know usually I like chips to snack on sometimes, but now I couldn't care less about them... I just never want them anymore.
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yellow ribbon
replied on February 19th, 2006
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Hopeful I no what u mean bout laundry I love tide! I bought clorox 2 last time and it smells good but its just not that tide smell especially mountain breeze mmmm

fatfamily I lovethe smell of agas and diesel exhaust even b4 I was pregnant so u arent the only one
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sandyallen
replied on February 19th, 2006
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I craved chocolate pudding with sweet pickles when I was pregnant my 1st time with canned whip cream and with the 2nd it was banana sandwiches and bananas with frosted flakes and bananas with milk and sugar and peaches with milk and frosted flakes, even not being pregnant I still have my chocolate cravings and pretzels and popcorn with or without the white cheese and crunchy cheetos, just part of the basic food groups(especially the chocolate, ha! Ha!). I too like used too like the smell of gas, maybe it was the dumb cheap thrills. Since I have had medical problems my senses are heavy duty.
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fatfamily02
replied on February 19th, 2006
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I always thought I was really weird--but I guess not. I could be exfixiated(sp) really easy--lol
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Jolie_3110
replied on February 19th, 2006
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When I was pregnant both times, I didnt have any cravings untill the last couple of months, then I just went mad over ice cream I ate so much of it!!
After I had my first child my mum kept buying it in bulk not really realising I wasnt eating it no more, it took her ages to shift it lol! I am not normally an ice cream lover!
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sandyallen
replied on February 19th, 2006
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I myself used to love the smell of downy fabric softener, I used to want to bathe in it.
I also love the smell of a can of coffee when you 1st open it but I am not much of a coffee drinker.
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Lalee
replied on February 19th, 2006
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No strange ones for me, but i've been eating a lot of cucumbers with ranch dressing. Or peanut butter sandwiches. Also, my lovely boyfriend bought me a whole box of those ice pops (the kind that are just the juice in a plastic tube). I love those things!
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Eyes Wide Shut
replied on February 19th, 2006
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I'm really just craving dairy.....Like lots of cereal with whole milk and cut up grapes and bananas in it!! Lol...Before getting preggy I would drink milk...But not very often..Now I go through an entire gallon in 3 days by myself!!!! I'm sure that explains a lot about my weight gain!!! Lmao!

I ate pickles and chocolate ice cream when I was really young and it continued until my teen years...I kinda grew out of it...Now that i'm preggy I don't wanna eat it!!

But like sour cream, butter, and milk seem to be all I want!! (of course..The fattiest things I could want!!) I eat smart balance butter which has the omega 3 and 6 in it and it has no trans fat..Which is a plus!!!

Sarah
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Kimmeh
replied on February 19th, 2006
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I also love the smell of gas!! Lol weird I thought that I was odd...I've loved it since I was a kid. It's apparently really bad for you though, you loose brain cells or something with the fumes...Haha.


Ivory snow baby soap is the most amazing smell in the whole entire world! I don't even have a baby yet and I do loads of washing (with baby stuff) just to smell it!!

And I never had any cravings really in this pregnancy...For a while I wanted meat (and I am not a big meat, especially red meat- eater) but that only lasted about 1-2 weeks and since then I haven't craved anything at all.
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yellow ribbon
replied on February 19th, 2006
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Lalee ive always loved those ice pops they remind me of the skating rink. Only problem is I prefer to suck the juice out of the ice and since its basically syrup it makes me cough.

I met this guy the other day (i wont go in to the whole story but hes 17 and looks 25) his g/f is prego and he asked her where she wanted to go for valentines day and she wanted to go to food lion (a grocery store) for peanut butter and stuff I cant remember what but it definately did not go good w/ peanut butter
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fatfamily02
replied on February 19th, 2006
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sandyallen wrote:
i myself used to love the smell of downy fabric softener, I used to want to bathe in it.


I also love the smell of a can of coffee when you 1st open it but I am not much of a coffee drinker.


yea the fresh coffe can, or instant bottle when you first open it. Or the isle in the store where the coffee is. Although it gives me nausea every time I drink it. My daughter hates coffee and when she was preg she couldnt even go down the isle of coffee.


And I have noticed the last couple days the laundry room does smell really good. But it always feels like "winter on the holidays to me" when I smell laundry washing, and drying.

And in the beginning of pregnancy especially, cucumbers with everything. Subway sandwiches crammed with cucumbers. And I also love them with ranch. I craved soups and lite foods in the beginning especially. Nothing too heavy.
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