Ehrm... you're not that weird. I've been craving chalk and dirt all the way through this pg. Isort of get around it by going somewhere that smells like dirt (I also like rubber) and chugging down a load of water while breathing in the smell. And chewable calcium tablets (not the orange flavoured ones but the vanilla ones) have been good for the chalk craving, and might be good for the eggshell craving too.
I agree with pash, you're not that weird. I never posted about it but I was exactly the same from about 31 weeks onwards. I would drive past construction sites with the windows down just to smell the dirt. I had an incredible craving for sand and piles of dirt. We went to the beach and I was incredibly jealous when DS took a handful of sand and put it in his mouth. Since the birth of DD2, the cravings still haven't completely left me ... the urge just isn't as intense. I was on a pg multivitamin but still had cravings. My iron levels were completely normal so who knows what I was lacking ...
I satisfied my cravings by keeping a big bag of ice in the freezer and crunching my way through it. The crunch factor seemed to satisfy my cravings somewhat but then pictures of snow made my mouth water too.
pica it is! Google it :-) Try mushrooms. I personally like them, but a lot of people dont and say they taste like dirt, bit off beat, but it might work, cant hurt anyway
I honestly think i might just have a little bit of sand or something, not much, but just a bit on the end of a spoon lol. I just wanna make sure its clean...man, my mouth is watering as i speak...
I also find my mouth waters when I smell the wet washing, or any musty smell. I was in kmart the other day and smelt a weird smell, it ended up being a pair of rubber soled shoes, and i walked round the shop with them in my trolley, so i could smell them as i went along...lol
Its so amazing how craving go...they literally just make you so desperate, that you will do anything and everything for it :P
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