Craving non food!!

[Sweetk1]

With my first pregnancy I massively craved sponges!
I would get in the bath and look at my bath sponge and my mouth would water.
Well it's back with a vengeance in this pregnancy, now I have to sit in the bath chewing away on the sponge, even looking at the sponge for dishes makes my mouth water.
I have read that some women bought the natural sponges and actually ate them.
So I was wondering if anybody else had any weird or wonderful cravings?

 

[TTC86JMS]

please do not give in to these urges.
what was your last Hb,you could be anaemic.

 

[BellaPrincesa]

This is so funny, this is exactly what I have! It was really bad in my first pregnancy.. i actually went to the store and bought a bunch of sponges and chewed on them in the shower :S hahahaha this time it's back with a vengeance again, but it's slightly different this time.. i don't have the urge to chew/eat it yet, just to feel it.. my hubby wonders why i'm so eager to do the dishes 50 times a day i'm so happy to have come across someone else with this very strange craving! I thought it was just me!

 

[Sweetk1]

My last HB was at 28 weeks was 12.5 I think.
I have heard in can sometimes be a deficiency in something..

 

[BellaPrincesa]

and might I add, i'm not anaemic!

 

[Jchihuahua]

Sponges, bubbles from bubble bath, ice and damp-cellar like smells!

 

[Miss MellyG]

Me too with my last pregnancy!! Bath sponges!

Knew it got bad when I walked past a bloke washing his car & my mouth started to water at the big yellow car sponge & not him!! Haha

Anyway, when my midwife put me on 600mg of Iron a day the urge went away.

I'm beginning to get the urge again this time so I've upped my Iron intake.


Mel x

 

[chobette]

Sounds like it could be an iron deficiency, PICA, I would ask your doctor's to test you. I asked my doctor on Thursday, had bloods taken, found out I was anemic and was given supplements to take twice daily. xx

 

[Jchihuahua]

I am anaemic which explains mine. I had it in my last pregnancy too.

 

[Mum2b_Claire]

I really want to eat a bath sponge with lots of bubble bath on it, and I felt similarly in my 1st pregnancy! I'm not anaemic though, iron is 13.

 

[Odd Socks]

i chew on sponges several times a day. i did last pregnancy & more so this time. my iron levels are fine, it's just something this baby likes (which is good as it doesn't like anything else!).
xx