What Did You Crave When You Were Pregnant?

I have 3 kids so I craved:
1) Nestle Chocolate Milk
2) Tomatos, red onion, cucumbers diced up w/salt and vinegar
3) Rare Steak

Things that made me sick:
1) Egg McMuffins
2) OJ
3) The smell of cinnamon...this one never went away...yuck!

my cravings were more about having aversions to all other foods but the ones that sounded tolerable: Taco bell tostadas, watermelon, toast, milk (which I never drank as an adult).

With my fist I liked chocolate pudding and those "Big Papa" pickles. With my second I couldn't get enough of ice cubes!

Shrimp cocktail, Jolly Ranchers, and italian bread with butter. Bread and butter. YUM!

Eggs, of any kind, made me hurl. And people who smelled liked whatever they ate last, which was everyone I guess.

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With my oldest Pepperoncinis and Kool Aid. My second Ortega tacos. Third, Little Debbie Zebra Cakes. Fourth, I can't really remember but I think that is because I was glad I had time to eat.

With both my daughters (2 and 4) I had to be very careful when I brushed my teeth or I would gag myself.

With my first born (daughter): I didn't have any strong cravings and none for sweets at all. I just had a bigger appetite and I ate varied things, as usual. And what is interesting is, my daughter will eat anything as well and is not picky and she has a good appetite.

With my 2nd born: ALL I craved, for MONTHS, morning noon and night ALL day and night, was Salads. And, what is interesting is, my son, although he is a picky eater... he LOVES salads.

But with both pregnancies, I had REALLY bad morning sickness and migraines. But I did acupuncture and that got rid of it.

In a grocery store, the meat department smells made me nauseous, as well as the smell of cooking rice. Of which here in Hawaii, rice is a staple eaten daily.

With my first child I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich every single day. Couldn't get enough!!! I have never liked fish or fishy smelling things and it was much more pronounced with that pregnancy. bleh.
With my second, I didn't really have any cravings. But after he was born....oh my! I had apple pie every single day for 2 months. horrible!
With my third I had cottage cheese every single day. Usually with doritos! (which I like when I am not pregnant too!)
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Fresh Corn
Spinach
Big Grilled Medium Rare Steaks
Baked Potatoes

One day at the grocery store, I purchase 8 ears of corn.. My husband asked me.. "You want some corn for dinner?".. I said , "Yes, I got it right here." That is when I realized there were 8 ears and It was just me and him that were going to be having dinner!

My husband's mashed potatoes.

Sleep. I kept dreaming I was married to Arnold Swarzeneggar (sp). So I was afraid to go to sleep!
I was hungry all the time during the first pregnancy and not at all during the second.

Fun!

Food. In general. All the time. (Before being pregnant I rarely/barely ate).

Heinz Ketchup with steak fries. Fries optional about half the time.
Sauerkraut with avocado.

The 2nd one i STILL do! Mmmmm. Reubens with Avocado. I know, intellectually, that it's gross. But it's a pregnancy food that still tastes as WONDERFUL as it did fixing those cravings.

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Unwashed dog. OMG. Our housemate had a dog he hadn't bathed in a year. She, literally, made me throw up every time she came into the house. My (soon to be ex) husband at one point brought her and her bed into. our. room. to sleep. (Housemate was away on business). I cried for hours, retching in the bathroom.

Huh. Looking back on it... I really should have left then, and not waited 10 years.

Taco Bell bean burritos. Eww. haha

Fresh fruit of any kind. I guess that canceled out the Taco Bell...

First pregnancy - Taco Bell. After that, I can't remember.

with my first, mexican food and cherry anything. With my second, oranges and anything orange flavored. Oh, and I hated the smell of donuts, it would make me throw up. And I could not brush my teeth for several hours after I woke up, I would throw up. Even thinking about it I would throw up. So glad those days are over!!

With my son, I had to have lemon heads. With my daughter, it was (ugh!) Beefaroni!

I didn't really have very many cravings. I would crave round table pizza from time to time & it HAD to be round table.

As far as smells that bothered me....tuna!!!, sausage, bacon, sometimes coffee, that's all I can really remember.

Nothing really grossed me out.
I just wanted to eat a lot of broccoli.

With child number one I craved green peppers. With child number two I craved pink lemonade!

First baby: craved fish and chips. In fact I was on a mission to find the best fish n chips in the county. I was a vegetarian at that time too. Lost my taste for pizza. Good news, I got it back after baby was born.

Second baby: craved Mexican food like crazy. I had to have it at least 4 times a week. Lost my taste for hot dogs. Even the thought of them made me gag. They still aren't my favorite but I will eat them.

Fun question!

I'm 35 weeks right now....ICE CREAM. I eat it every day. Also, loving mac n cheese. Nice and healthy, right? :)

Disgusted by milk and chicken.

Bananas mashed in peanut butter during both of my pregnancies.

For me there was not one specific food I did NOT want. Only that whatever it was that I did want, that was IT. AND NOTHING ELSE WOULD DO. I craved alot of carbs. Bagels. Mac and cheese. Egg and cheese on a roll. BLTs.

I was NOT in the mood for alot of seafood, or meat, nor was I in the mood for any kind of processed cold cuts sandwiches.

Peaches, peach ice cream, peach fro yo, peach pie... it was weird. Surprised I still like peaches.

Watermelon with my first son.. he was born in June.
Pizza with my second son, he was born in May.

For two weeks, it was mac n cheese. The next two weeks it was vinagrette salad. Towards the end I was gobbling M&Ms like they were popcorn. I was a teacher at the time I brought the huge bag with me to afterschool meetings and lunch.

Oranges, potatoes-prepared any way, and nachos-nice smells also made me nauseous and it was years before I could eat asparagus! My husband called it "bent-over nausea" because I was so sick, I couldn't stand up straight!

Meat: carne asada, bbqd chicken and carnitas
Donuts and pastries :(

What did I crave? Ice, ice and more ICE!! Couldn't get enough of it! The smell of Home Depot when you first walk in! The scent of a brand new book or magazine. I couldn't wait to get the mail with Parents magazine in it just so I could sit and smell it! Oh, yeah one last thing I craved was...ready...wait for it....the voice of Alex Trebek from Jeopardy, yep, couldn't wait to hear his voice each and every night!

What made me sick? Fast food of any sort, and the fish isle and the laundry detergent isle of my local grocery store! Unfortunately they are right next to each other so I wanted to vomit everytime I had to walk past with the two smells combined.

I craved dippin-dots like crazy. Never go them. They used to sell them at the mall but now the only two places I ever get them are at the zoo and in Monterrey, CA at the actual brick and mortar store.

Craving...curry chicken from one of our favorite places and cheese enchiladas from a Mexican restaurant we used to live by. I made my husband drive me there a few times when we moved away (20 mins). Turkey & avocado sandwiches from Submarina..and only Submarina..nothing else did it.

With my first child the first aversion decided to show at the worst time. Spaghetti sauce. We were at the Old Spaghetti Factory with a huge group of people and the longer I sat there the sicker and sicker I felt. When everyone at our table began to get their food it only got worse. I ate bread and got my food to go and almost had to leave. Funny thing is I was able to eat it the next day. The entire rest of the pregnancy I could eat things with spaghetti sauce so long as it was in the other room and a small portion at a time was brought to me, so one piece of pizza at a time type thing, 2 would be too much.
Another thing that made me sick was raw meat or cooking meat of any kind. That got worse each pregnancy and is still a problem years after.
When I was pregnant with my second we were still using the Diaper Genie for my first that wasn't out of diapers. One day I walked up the stairs and was knocked to my knees from the nausea caused by the smell of the perfume in the bags. Very next day we got rid of the Diaper Genie and got a diaper pail that used regular trash bags.

Taco Bell (I know - so bad)... and any better Mexican as well... but mostly mexican.

And orange juice.

Hot sauce (not tabasco), blue cheese, soda, sweet chili sauce, anything sugared.
The first time I ever gagged changing my toddlers diaper was when I was pregnant with his brother. The whole pregnancy was terrible cos' of poop. Something else(normal everyday thing) grossed me out but I can't think of it.

With my first I craved Kraft Dinner and Fried Rice, with the second I craved eggs. Garlic made me sick with the first, chocolate made me sick with the second.

In the beginning I craved sun chips with mustard. In the end I craved chocolate milk, but I wasn't allowed to have it because of gestational diabetes
:(

My husband was into drinking scotch at the time and the smell of it made me hurl!

With my first i ate tons of salad in the beginning when i had really bad morning sickness (my favorite salad ever from a diner), but 2 1/2 years later, i can't eat it. Just thinking about it makes me feel queasy.. But for the last half of the pregnancy all i wanted was mac n cheese, chocolate milk, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

With my first I craved Peach Snapple. I would buy the individual ones at work in our caffeteria and they were like $1.75 each. Finally, my husband bought me a case and I didn't even touch it.

With my second I craved hot dogs. I ate like a whole pack every day in my last month. lol

I didn't need anything to make me "feel" nauseous, I threw up the entire 9 months every day morning noon and night for both pregnancies. I even threw up in the middle of my c section and they were all, oh no, we gave you meds for that. Uh, get ready boys cuz here it comes! Gross. So I didn't need anything to make me sick, I already was. =)

Firm raw tofu with sesame oil and soy (I do NOT eat tofu normally - and I ate (yes, literally) a block or two of this per day).

Chocolate cake. Way too much chocolate cake. I mean, I always like me some chocolate cake...but I while I was pregnant I could seriously put away the chocolate cake.

Craved:
Claussen Bread & Butter Pickles
Chick-fil-a Ice Dream Cones
Chocolate Milk
Green Beans
Cereal

Made Me Sick:
Brushing my teeth - I had a strong gag reflex when I was pregnant and vomited almost every time my toothbrush touched the back of my tongue. Also, I had to dilute any juice, Gatorade, etc. about half and half with water because it tasted way, way too sweet. To this day I still can't stand drinking anything like that full strength because it's too sweet.

Pickles and beet juice, I used to drink it straight from the jar. Walking into a room where people had been smoking (not smoking at the time) used to make me want to hurl. I have never liked that smell but when I was pregnant it make me physically ill. Oh and walking past the meat counter at the supermarket made me ill too. :-)

Love this question, it is so interesting to see all of the different tricks that those lovely hormones play...

With my first, I had a strong aversion to seafood. Before I knew I was pregnant, I went to dinner at a seafood restaurant and was awful to the server. I kept sending my fish back because it just HAD to be rotten, it tasted so awful!!! I still feel bad about that one... I also couldn't eat pizza with sauce. It was so weird, I had to get the crust with the cheese, then sauce on the side and dip the pizza into the sauce. Makes no sense, but even thinking about "regular" pizza made me woozy.
Cravings were tree tomato gelato and fresh passionfruit, after spending the second trimester in Kenya, neither of which are readily available in AZ!! I also ate crackers with peanut butter like crazy, and since then cannot even look at them.

With my second, I didn't have a lot of aversions to food but smells were SO intense. The building where I worked had an elevator that was right next to the basement kitchen, and I swear the cooking smells all vented into the elevator shaft. I would ride up to the third flooor and then run right to the ladies' room every morning!
Cravings were any and all fruit. I could not get enough, and that lasted about 3 months after the delivery!

With my first, it was Icees/slushies and those Pintos and Cheese from Taco Bell (do they even still have those?) - it got to the point where my husband didn't even ask any more; if we were passing either one while out and about, he just pulled in!

Then with my second, it was cheese sandwiches late at night!

Things I couldn't deal with was raw chicken and tuna! Oh my gosh, I thot I would throw up. Well, most the time I did - had morning sickness with both just about the whole time!! But it was all worth it!!!

Fun question!!

I also craved watermelon with my first (a boy). That and taco salads.

With my second (a girl), I had more of a sweet tooth, which actually sucked because I don't handle sugar very well. I felt like I was constantly bouncing off the walls. But I've heard chocolate makes happy babies, and she was definitely a much happier baby than my first.

1st - I craved anything with spaghetti or pizza sauce!
spaghetti, pizza and lasagna are his fav foods.
2nd - I craved donuts and cake! normally I do not like either! I substituted whole wheat bages with cream cheese and homemade jams/jellies - it worked, daughter is cursed with the sweet tooth though.
Chinese food and Venison smells made me sick, both of which I usually love!

With my daughter it was cherry tomatoes. I'd eat them by the basket at my desk at work... and then one day the craving just went away. I still like them, I just didn't HAVE to have them. I could not eat cauliflower when I was pregnant with her.

With my son it was ice-cream. Two bowls a night. I'd eat one and go... "man that was good, I think I should have more." I could not stand the smell of fresh crab and certainly couldn't eat it when I was pregnant with him, though I loved it before and after I had him.

With my first I drank so much milk I should have invested in the cow to keep out back LOL. My second was mandarine oranges and raisin bran smothered in vanilla yogurt

Craved:
egg whites
purple grapes
root beer floats

Grossed me out:
Red meat
pork
(haven't had it since, been almost 7 years)

My first pregnancy, I craved watermelon! But I was too lazy to actually cut the watermelon myself. I went to publix at least once a day buying their watermelon cups. Things that made me sick..the prenatal vitamin and toothpaste. I couldnt stand the smell of the prenatal vitamin so I had to take chewable flintstone vitamins.

I absolutelt could not live withouth banana cream pie or pineapple. But could not stomach the thought of bbq (which was always my fave). I also found out that I like hot dogs, mayo and Mc Donalds all of which I used to hate

With my daughter it was oranges and orange juice. For two weeks,it was glazed donuts,I ate three and that was it with that craving. With my son it was milk. And both my kids crave what I craved with them.