Constant cravingsEveryone jokes about the cravings pregnant women have. We asked our antenatal group editors what they can't do without in the middle of the night …
The cravings I had, before actually getting the BFP, were olives, olives and more olives! Jason said he actually looked in my lunch box the day before we found out we were expecting and nearly threw up, as it contained tuna, olives, jalapeno peppers, beetroot and more olives! I'd say, through to week 12, it was more bland stuff: plain crisps (once
ate five packets on the trot), mashed potato, cheese and Pot Noodles.
Oh, and fizzy orange pop. I once made Jason get up out of bed in the middle
of the night to open a can, put it in a pint glass with loads of ice cubes
- it had to be a pint glass and it had to have ice cubes! I was tapping
my fingers on the bedside cabinet waiting for him to come back upstairs. My bizarre craving was liquorice! A few weeks back, I was sat watching a bit of telly and all of a sudden my mouth started salivating and felt, well, how can I say it, weird. The only thing I could think about was liquorice! Thankfully, lovely hubbie went to the corner shop and got a bag of Bassetts
Allsorts and I crammed the plain black ones in my mouth. Within seconds,
I felt satisfied and my mouth felt back to normal. We both thought this
was really bizarre as, although I have a sweet tooth, there's no way I
would ever choose a bag of Allsorts. In fact, I'd probably munch the pink
and blue coconut ones and bin the liquorice centre! Cornflakes and haddock fish fingers… Welcome to the weird world of my eating habits ...
The stuff I miss most are: blue cheese (I live down the road from Colston
Bassett - the home of Stilton - purgatory!); paté; rare steak and proper
beer! I craved tangerines for the first 12 weeks. I got through two or three
of those big nets a week at least. I also craved fizzy sweets like Haribo
Tangfastics and fizzy cola bottles as I found they stopped me feeling
sick. I tried not to eat too many though!! Rollmops and marmite on toast! My weirdest from a previous pregnancy was rollmops AND marmite on toast!
In each of my three pregnancies, I've craved cured herrings in soured
cream. Other than that, salt and vinegar french fries, damson jam on toast
(at 3am!) and tinned grapefruit. At the moment, it's Mars bars! Well, the things I have craved during pregancy are: chips, spicy food,
salt on everything, ice cream, pickles, jelly, sweets and Irn Bru. I have
completely gone off chocolate and many other things I used to enjoy.
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