Weird non-food cravings!

Okay, so I'm not anemic and all my labs have been perfectly fine. I discussed it with my doctor, and she says it's absolutely normal for some women to just crave certain smells and textures and tastes during pregnancy. Mine happens to be DIRT.

I don't know what it is about it, but I crave that rich, moist, mineral smell/taste. When I think about it, I actually salivate!! My mother-in-law said that she had the same thing and she would sit in her cellar and just take deep breaths for hours!

I have taken to eating Wint-O-Green lifesavers to satiate my craving. I seriously buy the econo-pack at Costco and go through 2-3 rolls a day. I suck on them all day long. I don't know why they satisfy the craving for dirt, but it seems to work!

Have you had weird cravings for things that AREN'T food? What did you do?

www.eating-disorder.com/Eating-Treatment/Eating-Disorders/pica.htm


I read about this.  Something called PICA. Check out the above link.

That is wild!  My friend had pica in her pregnancy and really was hot to eat chalk.    Instead, she ate Tums like they were candy.  They fulfilled her chalky craving.

I'd up your iron consumption a bit even if your labs are technically fine.  Maybe just add some more red meat if you don't want to add more supplements. 

I have the same problem! I want Gain detergent! It smells so good that I want to eat it! That and J&J Lavender baby Shampoo! I can just sit and sniff my kids hair all day, and I am constantly sniffing my clothes! My sister craved bleach and found out it was due to the fact that she was filtering her water and she was missing the chlorine that they put in tap water. Sure she did NOT drink bleach, but she wanted it!

baby powder esp the one with cornstarch.  I get on the verge of licking my arm when I put it on.  lol  I like to take deep breaths when I put it on so any particles floating in the room in injest.  Oh my I can not believe I just said that.  lol lol  I guess that would be along the lines of the chalk thing. Oh and that started 4 years ago when I was pg (child 3 now) and I still love it.  lol 

Denise 

I had the biggest craving for ice in the beginning, but mine was anemia, once I started on more iron, it went away. Too bad they don't have dirt flavored candy for  you! lol

Aren't there a lot of B vitamins in dirt? Maybe you could try eating some organic carrots or something that still had a little bit of dried dirt on it? It makes it taste like dirt a little :) Or beets to me taste very much like dirt! 

There are dirt flavored Jelly beans!  they're the harry potter ones. they come in a box with other nasty ones, i dont know if you can buy just the dirt ones LOL