Maggie Gyllenhaal's strange cravings

I craved root beer and grilled cheese sandwiches. I ate grilled cheese sandwiches for every meal during the last few weeks of pregnancy.

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I craved citrus throughout my first pregnancy, too. With that pregnancy I craved healthy stuff - fruits and veggies, but with my second all I craved was sweets all the time. I wonder if cravings are different with boys than girls.

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Jello! I ate a 6 pack of those jello cups almost everyday throughout my pregnancy. I'd put whipcream on top. Before my pregnancy, and now after, I haven't wanted any jello. It was just my weird craving I suppose.

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Apples and Pizza Rolls! I ate a box of Pizza Rolls every day after work for about four months. I can't even look at Pizza Rolls in the freezer at the grocery store now without feeling ill.

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Orange soda! I hadn't had a soda in probably 10 years before I got pregnant and haven't had one since I gave birth.

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I craved chocolate cake. I indulged myself too....only to find out I had Gestational Diabetes. GD and Chocolate cake do NOT go together. OOPS.

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I went through obsessive food phases. Like the 6wks where I ate green bean cassarole everyday for lunch. Or the couple months of tunafish sandwiches for breakfast. And the STRONG aversion to anything sweet. I don't normally eat beef or pork, but by 6wks into the pregnancy all I wanted was meat all the time. I guess I was trying to stave off anemia or something.

My grandma apparently had huge cravings for lobster and watermellon when she was pregnant with my dad. When she had them again a few years later is how they found out they were pregnant with my aunt. Heh.

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White peaches. Not the yellow cling peaches (had to explain to hubs that there IS a difference), but the white ones. And naturally, they were out of season at the time!

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Like Nessa, I also went through phases of cravings. One week it would be spaghetti and meatballs, then barbecue potato chips, then blueberry muffins, then sweettarts...

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My first pregnancy, I could only eat canned peaches and lime sherbet for the first 8 weeks. I don't even like peaches, canned or fresh! The second time around, I could only tolerated PB&J sandwiches for about 10 weeks. The last time around was the best. I couldn't handle anything for about 5 weeks. Once is subsided, I could eat almost anything.

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I wanted watermelon morning, noon and night. Cantaloupe was a good alternative.

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Once in my first pregnancy, I wanted Bean with Bacon soup ( I hadn't eaten pork in YEARS) and guacamole TOGETHER.

Oh gods, it was so wrong....

otherwise, eggs and veggie burgers mostly.

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Me- the only things I could eat during trimester one were potatoes (mashed, french fries, baked), watermelon/canteloupe/berries, or chicken soup from a can. (Even my home-made chicken soup made me want to vomit)

They weren't especially "cravings" per se.. More like "Things I can eat without making me want to curl up into a ball and die at the thought".

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I was blessed with no real morning sickness but there were a few weeks that garden salads with chicken was the only thing that sounds remotely appetizing! I also wanted pancakes... blueberry pancakes... I hope when I become pregnant again I want belgian waffles to be the only thing I want LOL... because I crave them now and I am NOT pregnant... need an excuse for something indulgent like that!!

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Velveeta cheese. I made a strange concoction.. several times.. of velveeta shells and cheese with hamburger and ketchup. It was SO WRONG. My poor hubby is a trooper though and ate it anyway.

I also craved Gala apples.. I had to have 1-2 every day.

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TACOS! or quesadillas from Taco Bell. It was the only thing I really wanted to eat the first 4 months and the only thing that didn't make me throw up a few hours later. And to think, I thought taco sauce would upset my stomach! I had the canned peaches thing too for a while.

Now, I'm 36 weeks (WOOOO almost done) and I can't eat enough chocolate or yogurt. My sweetheart bought me 2 bags of Snickers minis and a couple full sized ones for this week haha! The peanuts are taking away from the satisfaction, so I may have to move to Milky Ways or 3 Musketeers next week.

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Garlic, the first trimester--preferably, whole roasted cloves of it. Cheeseburgers the second two trimesters.

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I CRAVED ORANGE JUICE AND PICKLES TOGETHER I'D HAVE A BITE OF PICKLE THEN A SIP OF OJ. NOW WRITTING THAT MAKES ME FEEL A LITTLE SICK. ALSO I CRAVED WOOD I USE TO CHEW ON POPSICLE STICKS. tHE SMEEL OF FRESH WOOD WOULD REALLY MAKE MY MOUTH WATER.

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For my first, it was watermelon and baked potatoes. Was all I ate forEVER it seems. For my 2nd, it was jell-o. Had to be name brand and sugared - off-brands or sugar-free just wouldn't do it. I'd eat 2 boxes a day some weeks. I still eat watermelon and potatoes, but I haven't had jell-o in a long time (my youngest is 4.5)

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Milk, milk, and more milk throughout my pregnancy. I'd go through a gallon in two days by myself.

Wheat thins and pretzels were easy to snack on in the classroom while I was teaching -- I'd go through a box every three days or so.

Jonathan was born on June 21st, and watermelons were in season here for the last two months or so. I actually ate a whole medium-sized watermelon in one sitting. By myself. Several times.

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