Just for a bit of fun,

I thought it would be fun to start a thread on the cravings you have had during your pregnancy/ies and what gender your baby was?
I am well aware that there is no colrrelation between gender and cravings I just thought it would be a fun thread to open up to all the weird and wonderful things we HAVE to have and things we go to extremes to avoid.

Also what foods did you go off completely?

I was nutty for Banana smoothies, Cinnamon donuts and KFC through DD2's pregnancy (I am sure some of my old PB's would be able to add to that), and I went off red meat. I couldn't stand the smell of any meat cooking and lived on hot dogs and those processed ckicken kievs LOL

DD1 I think it was the same.

This pregnancy so far I cannot get enough bacon and eggs or garlic prawns OMG I could eat garlic prawns all day every day providing its in a rich creamy sauce.
have gone off lamb unless its cooked with lemon and rosemary, and have gone off sausages.

No idea of gender for another 4-5 weeks.

Nae x

1st pregnancy I craved ribena, anything with blackcurrent in it really and alchohol, which I didn't drink. I also loved Maccas chocolate shakes! Maccas is an hour away from us, I used to make DH drive me there for one. Baby was a boy

2nd pregnancy was pretty much the same, I coudln't get enough Maccas Diet Coke. Baby was a girl

3rd pregnancy I craved cake and wine. I totally went off red meat and still don't enjoy it to this day. Baby was a girl

cinnamon doughnuts and cheese! lots and lots of cheese!

very early on i craved spring rolls..

now its coke/lolly bananas & sesame snaps/bars...

ive been told bubs is a girl

damn it, I know I shouldn't have started this thread, now I am wanting a bit of what everyone has mentioned :rofl:

Cadbury bubbly block of chocolate, strawberry milk, mildura tropical juice, oranges, apples and nachos. And i had a girl :) Well those are what i craved when i COULD eat lol

Interesting - I had no cravings! I had a girl

With DD I went off all soft drinks pretty early on and had mad hankerings for salt & vinegar chips - the tangier, the better.

Later on I couldn't get enough vegetables or milk (boring, I know!).

I have a little girl running around, and I survived on Raspberry slurpies, mexican food (poor DH, he can hardly stand to even look at mexican now!) and pink iced donuts.

DD- orange juice, ice, iced coffees, soda water, soft boiled eggs & buttery toast, I also couldn't get enough cold water (I usually hate refidgerated drinks and fruit, but it HAD to be cold when I was pg with DD)
DS1- ham and cheese toasties, soda water again, and I couldn't stand eggs in any way shape or form, bananas.
DS2- space food bars (lol!), icy cold milk, milky drinks of and form, beer (I had 1 or 2 but could have happily drunk a bottle every day!), strawberries

DD I craved watermelon and diet coke. I went right off black tea.

DS can't remember a specific craving but I went off black tea and Turkish Delight (I normally looooove both).

Time will tell with this one I guess.

DD1 - Slurpees and citrus. Couldn't touch red meat.
DS - Anything deep fried, especially potato cakes.
DD2 - Sausage rolls and slurpees.

With both girls I drank a Slurpee EVERY day, even before I had a BFP. Haven't had one since DD2 was born. When I headed into my local 7/11 after DD2 was born (for milk), the blokes behind the counter were so excited I had had the baby!

I didn't crave anything really until the end of my pregnancy and then it was for ice cream of any kind but mainly Paddle Pops. I could eat 3 in one sitting. It was getting crazy and my OB actually cut me off because I starting putting on alot of weight right at the end and she attibuted it to the Paddle Pops.

I'm glad she did cut me off because I'm really finding it hard to get the last 5 kilo's off now that my Son is here. It must be 5 kilo's of Paddle Pops!!!! LOL!!!;)

Oooh Aussiegirl, you reminded me about dessert :) I had a bowl (read: giant bowl!) of banana choc chip ice cream every night!

All 3 times i craved cold oranges, i seriously could eat a kilo a day
With DD1 i craved Lamb & i hated it before i was pregnant, cheese & crackers.
With DD2 i craved mango frappes with extra ice from gloria jeans.
With Bambi it's been peppermint chocolate, i went off meat & apples till about 16wks (another girl)

DD1 - pancakes with brown sugar and banana mmmmm, white magnums and vegetarian nachos
DD2 - same but due to gall bladder issues couldn't have them much. my others were Rennie lol and mission wraps with chicken breast, avocado, soy mayo and fresh basil toasted in sandwich press. White kitkat was also a massive craving.

I acquired a taste for pepper in my pregnancies and love it now.

With Moo I think I just craved food in general :lol: if I saw someone eating something - that's it! Had to have it! But I did start drinking orange juice when I've ALWAYS hated the stuff. I also had to have two ham, cheese & tomato sandwiches every day, which is also odd as I've never eaten tomato before in my life! I still enjoyed at least one coffee everyday too. I drank sooo much water & had a thing for fruit too.

This time around I have completely gone off coffee, ran out weeks ago & haven't even bought anymore. I don't know if it's a craving but I've been needing potato type foods like potato gems, hash browns, mashed spuds, baked potatos etc. I'm still getting nausea & as soon as I've got some fries in my hand it goes away :redface: A lot of foods just turn me off which makes things difficult. I'll make a soup then once it's dished up I can't eat it. I'm finding it hard to drink water this time too, I have to have cordial in it, just can't stand it. Yet to see what this one is but the cravings are very different!

everything made me feel awful for ages, and I had ms and heartburn for about 32 weeks!

but oranges were top on my list for a long time (would eat up to 8 a day!) and chocolate milk too (despite having been allergic to full cream milk my entire life...)

other than that ... lots of banana smoothies ... and steamed potatoes and green beans with butter.

and I had a boy :)

DS - cheeseburgers, chocolate Quik, fresh fruit and salad... went off coffee and garlic
This pregnancy has been plain burger (breadroll, meat, sauce), KFC twisters, cheese naan, lollies (strawberry and creams or redskins)... haven't really gone off anything yet

With DD I went completely off red meat, and even the thought of tomato sauce made me sick! I lived on cereals and nashi pears, yoghurt, crumpets (with vegemite, nutella or peanut butter) and cheesy packet pastas. I can't even tell you how many boxes of just right and tubs if vanilla yoghurt I went thru, it's a bit scary lol

DS- watermelon, the hottest vindaloo or curry i could get and crusty baguettes with butter, ham and cheese- not really turned off anything

DD- almond magnums and ice cold water

this bubba- so nauseaus- so off meat and almost everything rich, desperate for citrus- eaten probably 100kg of mandarines already. Callipos - lemon of course, home made lemonade and acidic things like tomato based sauces. Curry is a winner again and the old hame and cheese.....

chocolate big m :)

girl here

:D

Both times round, I never really had cravings, instead I had adversions... All meat was out, including fish. Then there was eggplant, garlic, onion, banana's couldnt stand the smell of cigarettes or alcohol on anyone.. Actually there was heaps that I couldnt do, only passionfruit and mandarins could stop the morning sickness and I virtually lived on those for the first half of the pregnancies.

Both times I had girls.

I do remember having some massive arguments with MIL about my lack of eating meat throughout both pregnancies, she swore I wasnt getting all the good stuff that meat has in it.. I proved my point that you dont need meat to be healthy with my blood results that came back with the highest levels the midwives had seen in quite a few years! That still brings a smile everytime I think about it ;) :lol:

Baskin Robins ice-cream both times!! Donuts as well first time round. I had a girl then a boy :)

Latley its been calcium, Milk Icream and Yoghurt.. I'm obsessed LOL

I have aversions to red meat, couldnt eat it at all until very recently and still can only eat a little.

OMG Potatoes NOM NOM Chips, Baked Suds you name it :D

During the first 3 months all I could stomach was junk food, and now I can't really eat it. So weird! :)

*bump!*

I'm 11 weeks with my first. At first I had no nausea per say but had zero appetite and could only bear to eat beige and neutral coloured foods - toast, cheese, potatoes, pasta etc.

At about 8 weeks I became ravenous overnight with a massive sweet tooth. I wanted nothing nutritious and everything sweet or fattening lol.

Now I'm more balanced but having or thinking a lot more about milk, yoghurt, butter, strawberries, cheese, avocado and vegemite. :)

I am still nuts for garlic prawns and Bacon and eggs, though I also have to add Cranberry juice or Apple and Blackcurrent juice AND HARD liquorice ... choc bullets frozen or those yummo Inch Licorice things .... oh and we're having another girl ;)

With my DD early on I absolutely craved anything green!! Was so weird, I lived on green grapes, green apples (which I don't normally like), those crunchy green pears and edamame...guess it was healthy?! Toward the end I was big on slurpees - cold icey goodness, and vegemite on toast! The only thing I went off early on was coffee, normally can't get enough of the good stuff :D

I know im only 6.5 weeks but so far i have a massive thing for salty take away chips, don't care where its from.. HJ's, Maccas, local take away joint, KFC... ill eat it all and then some. Have gone off chocolate completely.. do want milk alot too. But i am craving a burger from a place called Kingsleys its a chicken place much better than kfc so i dont know if DP will get me one..

And before anyone worries i have lost 7kgs already this preg from when i had the flu and the days where im too sick to eat a thing.

I craved cheesymite vegemite on crackers, 2 minute noodles (chicken flavour only) and vanilla malt milk with my pregnancy. I had a boy :dance:

What is the link to cravings and gender? Are there some foods that are supposed to indicate a boy or girl?

I lived on honey toast for the first three months with DS1 and those yummy strawberry choc freddo's - i would eat a whole packet.

DS2 i enjoyed sweet things but nothing over the top.

This pregnancy i've craved vegemite but couldn't touch carrots in the first four month, they just tasted like poison. We are having a girl too!!

I didn't really have any food cravings...just the boring old cold water for DD and cordial this time around...

DD if I remember rightly was curried egg sandwiches with grated carrot and as much milk as I could get my hands on. I don't really remember going off anything in particular, except food entirely in the first trimester as I paid homage to the porcelain goddess at pretty well everything before settling in to throwing up a few times a week for the rest of the pregnancy.

This time - cravings include milk, maccas chips, cheese, olives, green veggies, vegemite and I'm very susceptible to smell - if I smell something tasty I *Have* to have it. Aversions so far are excessive garlic (especially if it's stale stinky garlic breath), cigarettes (not that I ever liked them, but now they make me want to barf), soft drinks, coffee, blackcurrant lollies and ginger. Having a boy this time :)

DD1 craved nothing. Couldn't STAND the smell of raisin toast.

DD2 Craved fish

This one wholemeal bread and vegemite (no butter), beetroot, musk sticks.

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What is the link to cravings and gender? Are there some foods that are supposed to indicate a boy or girl?

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LOL No, some people say that if you crave a certain type of food its meant to give you an indication of gender but there is NO SOLID PROOF whatsoever. I just started this for a bit of fun, my cravings have been different each pregnancy to this point. ;)

slurpees! And I had a boy :)