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twinkle_eyes83
21-06-2005, 18:17
any new cravings this week i cant get enough of coke at the mo iam on 10 cans a day with loads of ice mmmmmmmmm
nothing wrong with that just make sure you brush your teeth!!!!
my worst one was strawberries dipped in gravy it seamed like a really good idea at the time!!! well it was nearly 10 years ago
Oh I love your ticker twinkle_eyes83, I fancy one of those myself, might have a look later :D
I've craved HB pencils before so anything's possible. Currently I crave chocolate more than I usually do!
i dread asking this but what did you do with the pencils?? did you suck them or eat them ( i can't belive i am asking this)
Currently I crave chocolate more than I usually do!
Me too and i aint even expecting :cheer:
twinkle_eyes83
21-06-2005, 20:18
HB pencils how did you manage that i thought the smell of pine was a bad 0ne for my last lol i could not get enough of the smell
i did not really have any cravings with niamh, i will have a think and get back to you!!
i am still thinking about those flipping pencils!!!!!
twinkle_eyes83
21-06-2005, 20:23
has anyone heard from Siobhan i no she aint got long left mybe she has had the baby
when is she due?? i am not sure when she last posted
twinkle_eyes83
21-06-2005, 20:25
she is something like 37-38 weeks aint she
something like that, not that long to go.
twinkle_eyes83
21-06-2005, 20:28
mybe she has had the baby then
maybe, that would be nice for her, its safe for the baby a couple of weeks early. if she has i bet she is glad to not be preggers in this hot weather. i bet you are feeling the heat!
twinkle_eyes83
21-06-2005, 20:36
tell me about it iam hot and i have not even done no housework which is notlike me it not in a mess or anything thankgod i better do some low 2morrow i cant wait for baby to come now roll round 6 weeks and 3weeks i can take me raspbeery leaf
i started drinking that at about 30 weeks i think, i am pretty sure it helped i had a nice quick labour, i was pregnant in the summer the first time round but not heavily it must be awful, i am hot and can't do much and i am not expecting!! my heart goes out to you
twinkle_eyes83
21-06-2005, 20:45
so when can you start drinking rlt or take the tabs there are loads of driffernt stuff some at 32 then 33 then 36 what is the right time i have brought the tabs but it says not to take untill labour which is a bit silly if they are ment to help you did it work then for you
i drank the tea, i am sure it was around 30 weeks i started drinking it, i will ask my friend who works in a health shop tomorrow and check, i am sure it helped me as it was just about the only thing i did differently, with my first i had a 14 hour labour and had a vontouse and an epidural, with my second i just had about a 3hour labour and just gas and air! i am so sure the raspberry stuff helped it is supposed to help get your cervix ready or something like that!!!
twinkle_eyes83
21-06-2005, 20:57
i think i might start taking it now then
i would find someone who knows about it first, i think there are different strengths and i dont want you to get any adverse reactions, do you have a health shop locally or you could ask your midwife
has anyone heard from Siobhan i no she aint got long left mybe she has had the baby
Siobhan was last around on the 10th I think at 17:13. According to her profile anyways. She was going on maternity leave from work which was where she got her internet access, she should be back with us soon though because she's moving home and getting Broadband at home. Her baby is due soon though.
And I used to eat the pencils. Not the lead but the wood.
And I used to eat the pencils. Not the lead but the wood.
thanks babe you had me wondering for a while then!! :hmm:
The wood is still nice soaked in vinegar but I like any wood in vinegar so not just pencils.
The wood is still nice soaked in vinegar but I like any wood in vinegar so not just pencils.
really?????
really?????
Oh I love vinegar. I don't really eat a lot of wood but I like to chew on it and occasionally swallow bits.
so when can you start drinking rlt or take the tabs there are loads of driffernt stuff some at 32 then 33 then 36 what is the right time i have brought the tabs but it says not to take untill labour which is a bit silly if they are ment to help you did it work then for you
i have just spoken to my friend who works in a health shop and she said that she started taking the raspberry leaf tea at 30 weeks
twinkle_eyes83
22-06-2005, 19:59
thanks for that willow i took 1 today should be ok till i see midwife next week then i can find out how many i need to go up to
I have tons of cravings though. Have now gone mad on Toffee Crisps.
di marco
22-06-2005, 21:02
I have tons of cravings though. Have now gone mad on Toffee Crisps.
well toffee crisps are well nice! i know loads of people who are obssessed with them and theyre not even pregnant!
di marco
22-06-2005, 21:03
Siobhan was last around on the 10th I think at 17:13. According to her profile anyways. She was going on maternity leave from work which was where she got her internet access, she should be back with us soon though because she's moving home and getting Broadband at home. Her baby is due soon though.
it says on her baby thing that its due in 12 days
They are the nicest chocolate bar I think.
di marco
22-06-2005, 21:06
They are the nicest chocolate bar I think.
they are one of the best, but they have loads of calories too so i dont eat them too often!
I don't worry about calories. I just stick the whole bar in.
mmmmm toffee crisp mmmmmm
i never used to be but i am surrounded by it at work all day!!! and now it is nice weather i have put it in the fridge its even nicerr then!!!
I can't eat too much of it but I love a good few bars. If I have one piece I end up having to have another.
i never go too mad or i start to feel sick but i have about 2 or 3 bars a day
if i had to give up choccie or fags it would be harder to give up the choccie!!!!
I couldn't give up either. Mind you I smoke very little anyways.
With Stephen I craved pickled onions dipped in double cream :sick: though luckily it didn't last very long!!!
With Stephen I craved pickled onions dipped in double cream :sick: though luckily it didn't last very long!!!
that does not sound very appitising!! that makes my strawberries in gravy seam a bit more tasty!!! :sick:
I'm just glad it didn't last that long! :lol: Then I went on to home grown runner beans mixed with mashed potato and gravy. Had no cravings except for food in general with Ciaran and this time round I am addicted to acidic drinks. Gone off orange juice now and hit the fizzy apple juice instead (which I hate normally!)
that sounds yummy i love mash!!!! fizzy apple is not that nice i prefer cherryade
Had to be all mushy and mixed in together. The weird thing is that Stephen now loves his veg. Can't get enough of it, so maybe its from the craving. And runners are high in folic acid too, so it was a double bonus.
i like mash mixed veg and gravy all mixed up, in a nice big bowl and i will happily sit in front of the tv eating it!!! and i'm not pregnant!! when i had niall i ate everything that did not move and it did'nt help that i was working in a kitchen at the time!! i put on 4 stone!!!
I measured my ever expanding bump with a piece of string and a marker when I was pregnant with Ciaran and 2 days before he arrived, my waistline/bump measurement was 51 inches!!!! And I was a size 10! I've kept the string as a keepsake, but compared my now bump to find that I am the same size now as I was when I was 5 months with Ciaran!! I hope it slows down, as I haven't actually put any real weight on yet!!
i was completly different with both of minewith niall i was massive all the way round like a swimming ring, and with niamh i just had a nice neat bump and did not put on too much wieght with her. and now she is 15 months i am back to what i was before! thankfully i now have clothes that fit!
No such luck for me, I was a size 10 had Stephen (nice neat bump), back to a size 10, then with Ciaran absolutely huge and still a size 12-14. Once this one has arrived I have promised myself to get back in shape and to make an effort too!! I don't like being this size. My hubby says I have a backside that you can rest a pint on!!!! :lol: He was being affectionate though - I think!!
i was a size 6-8 when i fell with niall (now 9 & 1/2) i managed to get back to a 10 after about 3 years!!! i am now a 8-10 after having niamh 15 months ago but i think that is only because i went back to work when she was 10 weeks old and i have quite a physical job lifting boxes most of the day!! and i got put on anti depressants about 3 or 4 months ago so i gave up drinking so that has helped a lot!!
I'm going to make myself get in shape after this one, I spend too much time working from home and generally sitting on my backside, which is doing my figure no good whatsoever. Hubby thinks I am joking, but we'll see who is laughing when he is left with the kids while I get back in shape. It did take me years to get back in shape after Stephen though. Only just got there before I had Ciaran and there is an 8 1/2 year age gap between them!!
i have got the same gap between my 2!!!
I'll blame it on me giving up smoking after 14 years last September!!
Was Niall good when you had Niamh. Stephen was brill and really excited, though I think he isn't so keen now cause Ciaran follows him like a sheep everywhere and when you are 11 1/2, you just want to hang with your mates. They are really sweet though, loads of cuddles and stuff!
he was fab he still is!! he loves having a little sister, niamh is not quite old enough to follow him around but when we pick him up from school she runs (well sort of!!) up to him and gives him a big cuddle!!
Stephen is the same. Ciaran goes made when he comes home from school, and is gutted if he misses him in the mornings. I think Stephen is quite glad that I am having another one though, cause Ciaran keeps saying about the baby and I think Ste feels that it will take some of the pressure off of him!! The only downside is if Ci is tired he starts hitting out at Ste and he takes it and doesn't do anything back cause he doesn't want to hurt him, so that can be difficult at times. My blood pressure is a bit up at the mo and late in the afternoon all I can hear is the two of them arguing!!
A lot of people I know criticised me for having such an age gap between them, but in some ways I think it makes them closer. And all of Stephens mates love him. He's like their football team mascot!!!
we have got out of going to football today as the weather is so yukky, niamh would scream through the whole thing she hates being stuck in her pushchair now she can walk. during his last mach he scored 7 goals so i hope that was not because of us!!!!
Ciaran's the same, but he wants to join in with them, so has tantrums on the side line!! I tend to get over excited too, so its quite good that the season has finished. They are only going to have a few weekend games over the summer.
all we are having is touraments i think today might be the last one, i hope so i have not got much more room for trophys!!! niamhs favorite game is to nick the cones!!
Ste plays in defence, so not much chance of scoring, although he scored loads in his first season, the only problem was they were in his own net!! :rotfl:
He did get best sportsman trophy at their annual award this year though, so he was chuffed with that.
niall got most improved player, they dont really have set positions but niall is usually mid field (i think!!)
I also have a craving for omelettes.
I also have a craving for omelettes.
could be worse!! depends on what you are putting in them!!!
I have been having 2 poached eggs with 4 rashers of bacon every morning of late and the day doesn't seem right if I haven't had it.....maybe thats why I am so big!! :rotfl:
it depends on how you are cooking it, i can't see it being that bad!!!!
At least the eggs aren't too fatty as I am cooking them in water, but they are really runny yolks which you're not supposed to have. And the bacon is cooking in the micro till really crispy so shouldn't be too fatty, just really yummy!!
that should be fone, if the eggs are really fresh i can't see a problem with runny ones i ate them all through with niamh and she is fine, i love poached eggs!! yum i think i may have one now!! thanks i was wondering what to have for lunch!!
I just have a plain egg omelette or sometimes put a bit of tomato in and occasionally mushroom.
:lol: i had this fear you were going to say strwberry and tuna!! or something really weird!!! :lol:
Well it doesn't get much weirder than pencil wood :D
that should be fone, if the eggs are really fresh i can't see a problem with runny ones i ate them all through with niamh and she is fine, i love poached eggs!! yum i think i may have one now!! thanks i was wondering what to have for lunch!!Not a problem, I've just had mine on 2 pieces of toast with a side serving of beans on toast!!!
So thats why I am huge!! :rotfl: I was only finishing what the boys didn't want - honest!!!! :lol:
Well it doesn't get much weirder than pencil wood :DMy sister in law apparently had the coal craving when she was expecting her first!!! :sick:
Not a problem, I've just had mine on 2 pieces of toast with a side serving of beans on toast!!!
oh great i want beans now!!!! :thumbsup:
well i have to make up for not having breakfast :lol:
oh great i want beans now!!!! :thumbsup:
well i have to make up for not having breakfast :lol::lol: :lol:
:cheer: that was yummy!!! :cheer:
My sister in law apparently had the coal craving when she was expecting her first!!! :sick:
Eurgh :sick: I'm glad I never.
Eurgh :sick: I'm glad I never.
me too, do people really eat it??
My sister in law did!! She would have a black mush all of the time and would just sit there sucking it!!! :sick:
Can't imagine what it would taste like.
My sister in law did!! She would have a black mush all of the time and would just sit there sucking it!!! :sick:
that sounds gross!!! :sick:
i do understand having cravings but yuck!!!!! :sick:
WQ your wood does not sound too bad now!!!!
I can't imagine why anyone would want to, it must taste horrible?
but if you are craving it your body takes over, i was reading a mag a while ago and there was a lady in there who was pregnant and she was craving petrol! it started off with just smelling it then she started drinking it :sick: in the end she had to go into hospital as she was in danger of becoming very ill. in the end she was ok and had a healthy baby
I wouldn't drink petrol. I would feel like I was putting my baby's health at risk.
i have just filled up my car and it made me feel sick!! how could anyone do that!!!
di marco
26-06-2005, 20:59
i have just filled up my car and it made me feel sick!! how could anyone do that!!!
i know the smell of petrol is revolting, let alone drinking it!
I love the smell of petrol but would never taste it.
di marco
27-06-2005, 08:24
I love the smell of petrol
oh no i hate it! some of my friends like it but whenever i go in a petrol station it always makes me feel sick
I'm with you WQ, I love the smell of petrol!! I could stand in a petrol station all day, but then nothing would get done. I would never drink it though, even I was uncontrollably craving it, the damage that could be done. I worry if I have a little twinge, let alone drinking something so obviously damaging.
I used to drink terps because I loved the taste but petrol, yuck!
I read that story about the girl drinking petrol. She had started off just putting some on a rag and sniffing it during the day but then started to suck on the rag and she said it just got worse from then on. The doc's had to admit her and i'm sure i read something about her not being able to get some sort of pain releif because of her addiction.
Ewww black petrol trickling down your tongue ewww.
I wish i could remember what pain releif it was and why she couldn't have it
I suppose we could never understand that sort of craving, unless we went through one similar ourselves!
Well I used to have a glass of terps. I would have my friends round eva evening and they would be sitting there with their wine glasses and I'd have terps in mine. It used to stink lol :D
Well I used to have a glass of terps. I would have my friends round eva evening and they would be sitting there with their wine glasses and I'd have terps in mine. It used to stink lol :D
seriously????
seriously????
Yep loved it. Used to mix it with pepsi as well. Couldn't drink yellow terps but could drink white terps.
Well I used to have a glass of terps. I would have my friends round eva evening and they would be sitting there with their wine glasses and I'd have terps in mine. It used to stink lol :DOh crikey!!!
Oh crikey!!!
Used to love it until I was told it could damage my health.
Any weird cravings this time round??
Not many. Just Toffee Crisps but they're not weird.
Oooo yum - I love em but the rice bits hurt the roof of my mouth after a while. I've gone right off chocolate, which is really annoying cause now is the time I have a perfect excuse to eat it!!! :rotfl:
I have my healthy addiction to fruit - very sad!! Not that it will help my figure much!! :rotfl:
My only craving was smoked salmon, I used to rush to M&S in my lunch break and get small packets. I would eat one there and then and another one on the bus on the way home. I sat up the back and tore the packed open with my teeth and ate it with my fingers. I did this every day the whole tiime I was pregnant and working with both pregnancies.
It is true that most of the cravings you get are for things you wouldn't normally touch.
Ewww fruit :sick:And freshly grown veg too!! I'm gonna have a cabbage patch doll instead of a baby!!! :lol:
I think I'm probably just craving food!!!
I just like apples and strawberries. And green grapes.
di marco
03-07-2005, 08:43
And green grapes.
eurgh green grapes are disgusting, red grapes are so much nicer!
true.moon
03-07-2005, 08:45
totally agrre i hate green grapes red grapes have so much more flavour
My craving is mini cheddars now
I've started on them too Chance, but they have to be dipped into (or should I say scooped) into Philidelpia!!
eurgh green grapes are disgusting, red grapes are so much nicer!
I didn't know you could get red. We can only get green and purple round here and the purple ones are minging.
My craving is mini cheddars now
I hate cheddars.
Smothered in lots of Philidelphia cheese - lovely!!
Red grapes are the nicer - black ones I don't even bother with!!
Not seen any black ones round here either.
We have green, red (though more of a plum colour) and black ones. The black ones always have pips in though :sick: . Red ones are really juicy, green ones a bit bland.
I love green grapes though :D
I also love a good bucket of strawberries.
You'll have to go to a Pick your Own, like I do - made loads of strawberry ice cream from fresh strawberries yesterday. Couldn't believe that 500g cost 2 quid odd, and I bought 2kg of them for 3.20!!
There's a farm that grows them near where I live so I just go and pinch them.
di marco
04-07-2005, 11:36
i love strawberries! :) my mum said that we could go strawberry picking at some point as she used to do it when she was younger. i was quite sad when i got home from my performing arts lesson today and found that my mum hadnt bought any strawberries when she went shopping this morning :(
There's a farm that grows them near where I live so I just go and pinch them.When I pick them, it tends to be one for me, one for my basket, so I end up having double what I have picked. There are about 3 pick your own farms around me, so I have a good choice!
di marco
04-07-2005, 11:43
yeh id be eating them as i picked them too! :)
I have never tried a strawberry in my life
No reason at all - i'm just a really picky eater and wont touch anything i havent tried before
di marco
04-07-2005, 11:57
you really should try them, theyre really nice! :)
'Specially with cream and/or sugar
Oh i couldn't - honestly it's like a phobia now - i just have to stick to what i know
di marco
04-07-2005, 12:04
youre really missing out!
I bet i am - just cant do it
I'm the same with raspberries though - I like the flavour but wouldn't be able to eat an actual berry!!
No reason at all - i'm just a really picky eater and wont touch anything i havent tried before
Well how did you start eating in the first place then did you just remember what you liked being fed when you were little?
Yeah thats about it - I was brought up by my gran mostly who was a really picky eater too. So i only ate what she did. She has gotten worse over the years though. Anything that is reported in the newspapers as being bad for you she cuts it out of her diet. She is slowly running out of food to eat!!!
I did learn to eat pasta though which i thought was a big acheivement for me :D
Oh i quite like it - now that is
Thanks your going to put me off it now
Awww (((hugs))) :)
aaawww thanks just promise not to do it again lol :rotfl:
i have just started eating avacados, i used to hate them but now i love them!!! really strange!!! and i am not even expecting!!!
i used to think that but now they are lovely!
aaawww thanks just promise not to do it again lol :rotfl:
Ok I promise :D
I could never try weetabix - it looks grim to me, let alone the taste of it!!
Oh i can eat that - as long as there is lots of sugar on it
But the weird thing is that I like frosted shreddies, but they have to be crunchy, not sloppy!! They're made of the same stuff aren't they??
Weetabix are lovely as long as they're not soggy. I don't like soggy ones.
oh they have to be soggy - i have to mash it all up and then wait until all the milk has been soaked up then cover it in sugar
eeewww!! i can't eat any cereal at all!!!!
di marco
06-07-2005, 08:17
yuck! i hate any sort of soggy cereal! and i hate weetabix eurgh!
im the same with all cereal - need to let the milk soak up first before i can eat it
once again - eeewww!!!! its the milk that puts me off i can't stand it, i only have it in tea and coffee
Nah - got to be crunchy, not too much milk!!! Can't do with the extra milk at the bottom of the bowl - urggghhh
i drain that out before i eat them lol
I'm glad its not just me - my hubby thinks I'm strange cause of it - I would say I was strange for marrying a welshman but hey.... :lol:
I like weetabix when they're harder and crunchier.
Got a craving on the go for Minstrels as in the sweets :D Yummy! :)
ooo thats a constant craving for me anyway,lol.
$sTaCeY$
21-07-2005, 12:28
i won't eat soggy cereal it's ewwwwwwww
I have to have hard weetabix.
$sTaCeY$
21-07-2005, 13:11
i've never had weetabix, is it nice
Yes, they are proper gawwwwgeous!
$sTaCeY$
21-07-2005, 13:25
i might try some but i like honey cherrios :p
Dr. Tangliss
21-07-2005, 17:19
When I was pregnant with both my children, I craved marmite. But with my daughter, I wanted spicy meats all the time.
The great thing about Marmite (as long as you love it, not hate it!!) is that it has loads of folic acid in it :cheer:
I was addicted to it with my other 2 and at the beginning of this pregnancy, but gone right off of it now!
ooohhh!! i am a marmite hater!!! but everyone else in my house loves it!!!
its ok but its something i only have once in a blue moon,il buy it use it once or twice then it stays in the cupboard for a year until i choose to throw it out.
I'm normally a lover and so is my youngest but hubby and Ste hate it!!
Food cravings and aversions are a normal part of life, but seem to intensify during pregnancy. Nutritionists believe that the craving is not for the food itself, but for what it contains and the effect it has on your body. Cravings can also be the result of a dietary imbalance. A high grain diet often produces wild cravings for fats and sweets. Those high in protein can bring on cravings for sugar, and high sugar consumption can make some individuals crave salt.
A craving is not a bad thing; it's a message from your body. If you are in tune enough, you will be able to respond to it appropriately. If a craving is allowed to turn into a regular binge, it could affect your health and the health of your baby.
During pregnancy you need all the right nutrients in the right proportion to stay healthy and help your baby to grow. It may be helpful to try and understand where cravings come from and the best ways to deal with them.
Here are some common cravings and what they may be telling you:
Apples Calcium, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium. This is a pretty healthy craving. If you have a high-fat diet, your body may be craving the pectin for its ability to lower cholesterol.
Melon Potassium and vitamin A are its main nutrients. Canteloupes are also high in vitamin C, calcium, magnesium, phosphorous, biotin, and inositol - so go ahead, give into it.
Cheese Calcium, phosphorous and aluminium. Eat more broccoli and other green vegetables as a lower fat alternative.
Eggs Full of protein but also sulphur, amino acids, selenium and, in the yoke, fat. The white contains useful fat-dissolving choline. Often it's not the eggs, but the accompaniments (bacon, sausages etc) which are unhealthy. Vary your protein sources to include oily fish like salmon and mackerel and dried beans to ease the craving.
Milk Calcium is the obvious choice. But milk also contains useful amino acids such as tryptophan, leucine and lysine. As long as you're not allergic, allow yourself an extra glass.
Olives, pickles Sodium - your pregnant body needs more of it. Your body may also crave salt to balance excessive sugar intake.
Peanut butter/nuts B-vitamins, protein and fat. You need more of each when you are pregnant. A diet rich in oily fish will help diminish the craving and be lower in calories.
Diet dilemmas
Food cravings during pregnancy can sometimes present ethical problems as well. Many pregnant vegetarian women find they get uncontrollable cravings for meat. During pregnancy your requirements for protein are greater and a craving for meat may be a message from your body that it needs more first-class protein. There is no easy answer to this. Some women give in to the craving over the short-term and revert to strict vegetarianism after the birth. Others find that including fish or balancing pulses and grains in their diet boosts their protein intake. Including more eggs, milk or cheese in your diet is another way to provide good protein.
Finally, some women experience uncontrollable cravings for chocolate while they are pregnant. Chocolate is a complex food, which can bring about a complex series of biochemical reactions in the body. Chocolate, particularly dark chocolate, can be a useful source of magnesium and iron. So if you are craving chocolate, you may be slightly anaemic. Less sugary sources of these minerals include nuts, seeds, dates and figs (for magnesium) and red meat, eggs, nuts, seeds, beans and oatmeal (for iron).
Eating chocolate also stimulates the release of 'feel good' brain chemicals (called neurotransmitters) in the body; this combined with the immediate sugar boost, may help a woman who is tired or depressed to feel better, albeit for a short time.
Most commercially produced chocolate, however, is laced with additives and other undesirable synthetic chemicals (many of which are not listed on the label). So if occasionally you just have to give into the craving, try having organic chocolate as a somewhat healthier alternative.
A more positive approach to feeling good, however, would be to pursue a regular course of exercise and relaxation. If you're depressed you may want to consult a therapist to help you.
At the other end of the scale are aversions. As long as your diet contains a wide variety of foods, the odd aversion is unlikely to cause problems. However, if you suddenly develop an aversion to a food that is major source of nutrients for you, make sure you substitute other foods which will make up the deficit.
It is not uncommon for omnivorous women to suddenly develop an aversion to red meat during pregnancy. Like their vegetarian counterparts, as long as they are eating plenty of other protein foods (fish, cheese, nuts, tofu) and leafy green vegetables they too will be getting the iron and protein they require.
latest craving is smarties.yum yum
Mine are plums at the moment - why am I liking all of this fruit and healthy stuff....
i know! i was wanting a banana the other day! ridiculous!
This is when I am supposed to eat loads of chocolate eclairs etc, like I did with my other two, but no, I have to be healthy and crave fruit and veg!!!! :wall:
im doin a bit of both luckily,wanting a choccy eclair now youve mentioned em,thanks.... all the shops are closed :(
And I think the men would notice if we had disappeared at that time of the morning to go to the shop - we have a 24hr one pretty local, which is handy, but I can't say I have ever HAD to have something. Have you ever had that - where you've had to send your man out to get something cause you have got to eat it now??
i have done it to him,wherei have sent him out to get something cus i was craving it but i must admit i wasnt ever totally desperate,if he hadnt of gone then i would of had to of gone without plain and simple and i would have been ok with it.goin to get me some eclairs today though!
Oops, sorry for that one - and heres me wanting a tomato!!! lol
I've never sent hubby out, though I think its more me being too soft on him than anything else!
ooo no dont be soft,its there fault we are like this!!!! (we had nothing to do with it,cough cough) send him out! i fancy some fudge as well today!
Yeah, I'm sure I was sleeping!!!! lol
hmmm fudge - why can't I have these cravings this time argghhh - had em with the boys, its so unfair!!!
just to let you know i had my eclairs,all four of em! and smarties pkts were buy one get one free so i was in luck,just have to hide em from the boys now
lol - thats good to hear - I ate 5 slices of the chocolate caramel flapjack type thingys today - followed by 2 plums of course - very nice!!!
i had a craving for two weeks for plums!
Isn't it strange how they can change so frequently though - one min, you want something sweet, next you can't stand it...the funniest thing with this one is that every time I have something to eat, it starts kicking - I don't know whether that means she/he likes what I am eating or not!! :lol:
ive also noticed this time around i can not eat anything if im planning on going out in the car as it makes me feel like im going to be sick,it happens every time!
I also find that if something has slightly the wrong texture, I cannot swallow it no matter what - today for example, the swede was a little bit woody in places, and as soon as a woody bit touched my mouth, I thought I was going to bring it back up again. Its really weird!!
emma_strange
29-08-2005, 23:43
My mum had cravings for ice cream when she was pregnant with me, with my brothers though it was cheese and jam sandwiches (yes together :S)
ewwww i ve never had it where ive had to have two things together at the same time
When I was expecting my first, I had pickled onions dipped in double cream :sick: and then changed to fresh home grown runner beans, mixed with mashed potato and gravy. Thankfully for my youngest, and this one I've not had anything weird, just food!!!
ive read about those people who crave wood shavings or tissue and weird stuff like that,yuk.
ive read about those people who crave wood shavings or tissue and weird stuff like that,yuk.
yeah or charcoal was one of teh more popular ones i have heard!!
my sister in law had a charcoal one - used to suck it everywhere she went!!
RealityGap
02-09-2005, 14:39
when you crave things like charcoal - it is called pica and normally means you are defficent in some mineral.....
RealityGap
02-09-2005, 14:41
when I was pregnant with my son I craved cold vegetable curry sandwiches, would get my husband to go and get an indian curry from the take away - eat some then, and save some for a sandwich the next day - yuck!!
:sick: Apparently charcoal is an iron deficiency - I'm glad I haven't had any cavings like that!!
RealityGap
02-09-2005, 21:13
:sick: Apparently charcoal is an iron deficiency - I'm glad I haven't had any cavings like that!!
I so could not imagine wandering about sucking a lump of coal yuck yuck and double yuck!!
.:SpIcYsPy:.
02-09-2005, 21:15
Charcoal as in the black stuff you use for BBQ's :eek:
RealityGap
02-09-2005, 21:52
Charcoal as in the black stuff you use for BBQ's :eek:
yes the very same charcoal........horrid thought eh :sick:
I'm just craving the healthy things still - its sooo unfair!! :rotfl:
im giving it a rest it seems this week,havent felt the need for anything yet....
I have 2 punnets of plums looking right at me saying "eat me" at the mo!!!! :rotfl:
i keep getting indigestion,everything i eat isnt goin down just feels like its staying in my throat,did you suffer from this with your boys? i did with my youngest but not so much with my eldest.
oh and guess what? i need to wee constantly all over again just like at the beginnig.sorry nothing to do with cravings i know,lol.
I didn't have any indigestion with the boys at all, but have suffered with it a fair bit this time round (hey maybe this means I AM having a girl?!) Its awful cause no matter what I do it won't go. Mind you, I shouldn't think the amount of fruit I'm eating helps really!!!
they suggest fresh pineapple for it dont they,thats what ive been eating anyway,it helps but always gives me mouth ulcers in the process
I've got a couple in the garage keeping cool - you've got to be careful how many you have though, cause they are also recommended for starting you off aswell!
oh god! do they? better not have too many then else il be in trouble!
It didn't work for me mind - I was eating 4 a day when Ci went overdue and it didn't work - it took a bottle of warm norfolk punch from the health food shop instead :D
4 a day?!!! my mouth would be in agony by then! full of ulcers! dunno why it gives me emjust does same with jelly tots though,they do the same.
I've got a new toy, which is a pineapple slicer/corer in one, so I keep buying loads of fresh ones just so I can slice them up etc. I have to watch the acidity though, cause I've found its one of the things that gives me indigestion.
sounds good,saves all the trouble i have to go to with the knife
Lakeland sell them - you cut the top off and it does the rest for you. Its brilliant and you don't get any of those little bits on the edge - you end up with slices just like you'd get from a tin!!!
Trust me - they're brill, especially if you are craving them - the kids love em too!!
the kids love pineapples or your new toy?
Ci loves the pineapple, but Ste loves using the slicer thing and eating the pineapple!! lol
was gonna say... it would just be for fun my eldest doin it,he wouldnt eat the pineapple
Chloe O'brien
02-09-2005, 23:53
When I was pregnant with my daugther who is now 6 I had a craving for bacon & Banana on a roll (don't knock it until you've tried it) even now I still eat them they're scrummy yummy :)
Luv Chloe
When I was pregnant with my daugther who is now 6 I had a craving for bacon & Banana on a roll (don't knock it until you've tried it) even now I still eat them they're scrummy yummy :)
Luv Chloe
sounds lovely :sick:
When I was pregnant with my daugther who is now 6 I had a craving for bacon & Banana on a roll (don't knock it until you've tried it) even now I still eat them they're scrummy yummy :)
Luv ChloeI think I might give that one a miss!! :rotfl:
When I was expecting my eldest (now nearly 12) I used to dip pickled onions in double cream!!! :sick: Luckily that didn't last long and I went on to freshly picked runner beans mixed in with mashed potato and gravy, which was much nicer!!!
RealityGap
05-09-2005, 11:11
I think I might give that one a miss!! :rotfl:
When I was expecting my eldest (now nearly 12) I used to dip pickled onions in double cream!!! :sick: Luckily that didn't last long and I went on to freshly picked runner beans mixed in with mashed potato and gravy, which was much nicer!!!
:sick: indeed to pickled onions in double cream:sick:
ive never had any weird ones....
You're lucky - the looks I used to get!!!
Gone back on to my fresh runner beans, with mash and gravy craving again now!! Hmm, lunch time!!
mmmmm sounds yummy,can you send me some please? my pelvis is hurting to much to stand up and make anything and mash wont hurt my tooth either! first class delivery to chance's house. :)
Winging its way to you!!! :D
My mum delivered 40lb of freshly picked ones last weds which I proceeded to top tail etc and now have about 15 bags in my freezer!! She's bring more on Thurs!!
RealityGap
05-09-2005, 15:15
40lbs of fresh beans that is a pile of beans!!
Yep - I've already got through 5 bags and currently going through another as we speak!! lol My mum has over 100 plants that are going mad at the mo! It took me 3 hours to prepare all the beans, but put them into portion size bags.
RealityGap
05-09-2005, 15:48
LOL - well it sounds like your mum is coming to the rescue - 3 hours to prepare them urgh!!!
LOL - well it sounds like your mum is coming to the rescue - 3 hours to prepare them urgh!!!Its not too bad when I've a bean slicer which tops, tails, destrings and slices in one action!! Did it whilst watching tv from 9pm onwards - it was funnily quite theraputic!! lol
jojomum you seem to have all the gadgets,was the bean slicer from lakeland too? :)
jojomum you seem to have all the gadgets,was the bean slicer from lakeland too? :):rotfl: Well how did you guess honey!!! :rotfl:
i need a decent tin opener! where would you recommend? lol :rotfl:
RealityGap
05-09-2005, 19:49
i need a decent tin opener! where would you recommend? lol :rotfl:
an electric one - I love my electric can opener and would have to buy a new one when this one dies!!!
i need a decent tin opener! where would you recommend? lol :rotfl::hmm: :hmm: I can think of one place!!! :rotfl: :rotfl:
RealityGap
05-09-2005, 19:49
Its not too bad when I've a bean slicer which tops, tails, destrings and slices in one action!! Did it whilst watching tv from 9pm onwards - it was funnily quite theraputic!! lol
that sounds like a nifty gadget!!!
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