Humor: Decoding food cravings during pregnancy 18 Articles

by Emma Riley Sutton

Tabasco sauce in my water. Giant pickles in hot bog buns smothered in onions, mustard and Tabasco sauce. Oranges with Tabasco sauce. Sunflower seeds in cottage cheese with Tabasco sauce. Mint chocolate chip ice cream w...read more

by Sherry Singson

As a nurse, I've heard a lot of strange food cravings from our pregnant clients. They send their loved ones to search for a specific food or dessert with a certain brand, anytime of the day. Of course, every husband wants ...read more

by Mandy Crum

I love food. There. I said it. Before I got pregnant (at the time of this writing I'm eight months along and the Kentucky heat has given me sausage fingers, making it hard to type; please forgive any spelling errors),...read more

by Elke C

During my first pregnancy, I gained 50 pounds and only 10 pounds of that was baby! Obviously, I ate well and used my pregnancy as an excuse. Actually, I have always been a picky eater and could never eat large amounts unti...read more

by Nichole Nash

Being a good Southern woman, I've always lived by the adage that your body craves what it needs. Calories, fat and sodium have never meant much to me, and when I was pregnant I whole-heartedly believed and practiced eatin...read more

by Kate Johns

I've been pregnant twice and both times I gained thirty pounds. I craved healthy foods with our first child. In fact I was eating so well that my hair and my skin never looked better. With our second child, I knew I was ha...read more

by N. A. Hernandez

It is normal for a woman to start craving foods that she has never really liked or thought of much while she is pregnant. I know first hand the weird cravings that you can get while you are pregnant ad each pregnancy can ...read more

by Jane Allyson

Having survived a rapacious appetite through four pregnancies, eating foodstuffs I normally shudder from and served up in a combination of highly inventive ways, I realize that mother nature really does have a wonderful wa...read more

by Jessica Cooney

Before I got pregnant with my first child, I would here the pregnant woman jokes where the wife would wake her husband up at 3 A.M. for dill pickles and ice cream. I laughed just like most people who have not been pregnant...read more

by Jessica Lopez

I thought I'd picked up on a very valuable piece of information. During my second pregnancy I read somewhere that the foods a woman craves during pregnancy have the nutrients she needs most to meet the growing baby's' nee...read more

by Holly Eisenbrandt

Tthe challenge throughout the child bearing and raising process would be to remain physically and emotionally healthy. This being a more difficult task than it would appear. From the moment of conception, a mother to Be...read more

by Kathy Downey

When you are pregnant, you are in an altered state of being. Hormones, running rampant through your system, change your body in ways that you may not even understand. Cravings are just one part of the experience. Think of ...read more

by Rose O

It was my chance to eat everything and blame it on someone else,"The baby." Luckily I did not gain too much weight. I worked right across the hall from Gertrude Hawk, which if you don't know is a chocolate store. I mean th...read more

by Mouse

Anyone who's ever been pregnant will identify when I say, there REALLY ARE times you actually think you may be mad! Nothing is under your control - either because "bump" has hijacked your body; or because you've suddenl...read more

by Holly R.

I've always been a pretty healthy eater. I'm very proud of that. But food cravings took over when I became pregnant with my first child. I gained 45 pounds, which I know isn't terribly extensive, but that number could have...read more

by A.L Head

Being pregnant again for my third time right now I have been able to figure out where my cravings have been coming from. Although with my first pregnancy all I ever wanted were cherry slurpies from 7-11 and banana splits f...read more

by A.T. Allen - Food and Drink (other) Steward

Who would have known that a short and petite woman like myself would nearly double her body weight during pregnancy? When I was pregnant with my son, I went from 100lbs to 185lbs. I craved tacos, pancakes and jello. Som...read more

by Tamara Keurejian

During the second trimester of my pregnancy with my daughter, I developed a huge craving for buffalo wings and boardwalk french-fries(if you're not familiar with the latter, go to Ocean City, Maryland sometime). ...read more