Pregnancy Cravings and Aversions
Pregnancy is a funny thing. It can make you disgusted by things you used to love and it can make you drool over things you previously hated. Fortunately, from my experience, the aversions usually aren’t so bad after the first trimester. In my first pregnancy, I was turned off by chicken, turkey, and fish. In the second trimester, I got a craving for red meat, which I had never in my life eaten. I gave in to the craving and have enjoyed meat ever since.
Now with this pregnancy, I had aversions to almost everything possible during the first trimester. I lived on fruit of any kind and bagels with cream cheese. I am still somewhat turned off by cold-cuts, which is fine because you aren’t supposed to eat them anyway. I also still love fruit, but also enjoy eating salads and can finally handle eating some chicken and meat again. I wouldn’t say I love them, but I am totally ok with eating now. I am pretty turned off by the smell of taco sauce and certain other spices. I would say, the blander, the better. I crave soft-serve vanilla ice-cream cones from McDonalds. Pretty much anything cold and sweet is my best friend!
What are some pregnancy cravings and aversions you have had?
I also craved giant fountain cokes w/ flavoring and crushed ice. I now STILL crave them all the time... never really cared that much for them pre-pregnancy.
In the first tri, I remember having random aversions b/c I just felt kind of yucky around dinner time. However, I was never sick at all. Just felt kind of crummy. That ended around 10-11 weeks, and I felt fine. I never wanted sweets while pregnant, which is excellent for me....the non-pregnant me wants sweets 24/7! . One day I had a severe craving for eggs, so I made omlettes for dinner that night. I don't love eggs that much normally, so that was odd. I do like omlettes as long as they're covered in cheese, but I wouldn't normally crave them and NEED them right now. That day, I really did!
If you go back to my journal for Cameron, you will see that there wasn't much that I wanted at all. All that I could eat was fruit. That was pretty much the case the entire pregnancy.
ETA: I also craved beer when preggo with C. I never liked beer before but really wanted it when I was pregnant and do enjoy it now.
This time I love mashed potatoes, which I normally don't like. I don't crave them, but they are delicious when I eat them. I craved carrot cake one day. It was random. I always like it, but out of nowhere, I wanted it sooooooo badly.
I am always in the mood for a cold soda on ice or a slurpee, but I rarely indulge.
With #2 I craved McDonalds french fries all the time.. I mean ALL THE TIME! I had them almost every night for 4 months. I couldn't stand the smell or site of meats or eggs..
I craved red meat with my first pregnancy too. I always wanted steaks and ribs. I always crave fruit during pregnancy. And this time, I just can't get enough Oreos and shakes.
Before I got preg w/ D I LOVED Chinese food. I could have had it every day.
Tomatos, but after I had him the craving for them came back.
Cravings....
What did I not crave, besides Chinese food and tomatos? I craved EVERYTHING but my main one was Pizza Hut's Italian salad dressing. I would wake up in the middle of the night and cry for it.
With E I can't remember any aversions
Craved....McD's hotcakes
Peanut butter and honey crackers. I had to talk myself out of stealing a pack at a gas station once
Olive Garden salad
Sweet tea
Chicken salad cressents. The kind with grapes, apples, and pecans
With J, I craved jalepeno poppers - the cream cheese kind, not the cheddar ones, and fresh pineapple. I would wake up in the night craving pineapple.
With L, I craved applesauce. I would go through a large jar of applesauce a week.
With both girls I had the worst sweet tooth that I've ever had in my life. I would buy donuts, cookies, candybars -- stuff I never would have bought normally! With N, I baked pies, cakes, cookies all the time. I mean, it was so bad that I would hunt around for sweets - if they weren't in the house I'd run out to buy it. It was really bad.
I craved mexican food really badly with Nicole. I craved watermelon and cottage cheese with Ella - like where I would eat a whole container of cottage cheese in a day.
Me too! The cheapest (and they're still expensive) place I've found them is Sam's.
Cravings: McDonalds french fries! Beef and noodles (I could have eaten them everyday) Every morning I had to have a apple, which really drove my husband nuts because I couldn't just go out and buy a bag of apples it had to be a certain apple. So every morning I had to go to the store and pick out the best apple to eat. It only drove him nuts when I would cry because he would tell me we weren't going to the store before going somewhere.
When my MIL was pregnant she craved McDonalds fish sandwich and she hates fish. Thankfully I didn't crave anything that I didn't like.
Both times, I couldn't stand the smell of meat cooking.
I don't remember any cravings.