Does anyone else crave non food items besides me?!

edited March 2011 in Second Trimester
Craving non food items like dirt, chalk, powder, ice etc
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  • Means you body is lacking something you need to tell your doctor
  • I crave tissue and paper...just wanna chew not swallow.
  • Its called pica. Your lacking minerals or something along those lines. See your doc asap
  • I know im craving red clay dirt, baby powder and chalk dust but I dnt eat it but I can be around it either I might just OD LOL
  • Ha ha thats crazy. Whats it like? Does it irritated you after a while, Craving something so different
  • I don't have craving like that but I do have this thing where I chew on rugs and lick it. I did it when I was pregnant with my daugher I just love the feeling of the rug on my tongue. Lol sounds real crazy
  • my gma said that if your craving dirt and powder like things you need iron(:
  • I crave ice like crazy! I eat tons of it all day long haha....other then hat I have this weird craving to smell certain things like soap,cleaning products, and gas haha sounds so awful!
  • Sounds like you need some vitamins. Pica is the condition you are describing. Go to the dr!
  • That means your lacking something like @beardreams said. You need to see Your Dr you might need to take Some vitamin because its not healthy for you or your baby. Good luck
  • That is a very serious condition. Go to ur doc asap..
  • I have my vitamins but I still like it and the crazy part is I went to this country store and they sold home grown clay dirt!!! Lol weird
  • edited May 2011
    Omg! It's this toilet fresher that clip on to the bowl, I wanna open a new one and eat it. I just sit on the toilet n smell it. Lmao

    Lmmfao @lovingmybabygirls11 r u serious ?
  • My sister craved baby powder when she was pregnant the last 2 times. Come to find out she was anemic (sp?). Definately talk to your doc about it! %%-
  • edited May 2011
    I was craving cigarette ashes. No I didn't eat it and I don't have the slightest clue what it taste like but my mouth would water at the thought of it. I told my doctor about it and they did some blood work and I was lacking iron. I now have to take four iron pills a day. Keep in mind I've never smoked a day in my life.
  • @lovingmybabygirls11 omg I'm sorry but that is funny.
  • Ice, plastic straws & gain laundry detergent are mines :)
  • No. I watch that show where people do weird stuff. Eat hair, eat toilet paper, eat detergint, sleep with hair dryer. Its so weird.

    Like everyone else said Id def tell your doctor.
  • So have any of you ladies actually gave into your cravings? I was so close to giving in. I went bought a pack of cigarettes and was going to light it and let it burn just to have the ashes.
  • It's all about bath sponges for me. I chew them but I never swallow so its kinda like Gum lol. I enjoy it even more if i soak them in really cold water first.
  • @bambi_bump We all need to go on that show my strange addiction. Lol I also want to eat baby powder. It's like I can taste it in my mouth. Ugh
  • Alert ur doctor thats not normal
  • Dish detergent this lemon kind and cleaning products smell.so good just wanna eat it!
  • I chew on towels and I like sleeping with my blow dryer (gotta b careful tho cause of fire hazard)
  • Ive been craving sand, ice and the smell of gas!!! But i just eat a few ice cubes here and there :)
  • I actually told my doc he gave me iron pills but I still eat clay here and there its just so good to me
  • My grandma told me hoe she ate red clay dirt and corn starch with all 10 of her kids!! I was like What grandma?!! She said Yea I mad ur granddady drive for miles to the store with the red clay dirt....smh I said What did the Dr say she said Nothing he never told her to stop wth? Funny how medicine is different nowadays...all 10 kids are fine no health problems they were just born white!! Surrounded by corn starch!!! Wowzers..times have diff. Changed grandma
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  • In the early, early stages of my pregnancy, I noticed that I was craving chalk...I talked to my doctor about the situation and went through some lab work. I was lacking some minerals that my body needed, but he said that it was completely normal to crave things like that. He told me that he had a lady in labor, eating Crayola Chalkboard Chalk, in place of ice-chips. Evidently it won't hurt you, but ewww!!
    I've also heard of some women craving gravel and dirt. I think I'd die....ICK!!!!

    My only non-food craving is the smell of Gain laundry detergent. I know, it sounds nuts, but I've actually had to stop at the dollar store to buy a small container of Gain, just so I could smell it.
  • I crave ice and different smells like strong cleaning products and stuff like that
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