30 of the weirdest pregnancy cravings

When you're pregnant, cravings can strike day or night, and the urge to eat or smell whatever your body wants can be overwhelming. Here are some of the weirdest, most wonderful cravings reported by Netmums forum members – hungry anyone? 

There's nothing like a sarnie to hit the spot when you're peckish – unless your pregnant that is. Check out these rather unusual sandwich fillings, craved by pregnant mums on our forum.

Yep, just mustard. 'I craved mustard sandwiches when I was pregnant in the same way I crave Dairy Milk now I'm not!'

Umm ...

A buttered roll with a Cadbury's Caramel and brown sauce inside.

'It had to be chip shop brown sauce though,' one forum member said. 'Anything else didn't quite hit the spot'

Sweet and savoury?!

Tangy!

Now this we can get on board with ...

Slippers, tennis balls, rubber bands ... Anything rubbery seems to have been popular with our forum members!

'I ate the sole of my mum's slippers,' said one. Eeeuuggh!

Lovely, umm, bubbly!

'I would run a great big bubble bath just so I could lie in it and lick the bubbles off the top!'

Sadly, no, we don't mean the Victoria variety.

'I used to suck the water out of it as well – it tasted so good.'

Nothing beats a wet flannel covered in toothpaste, according to one of our forum members.

Mmmm ...

We tell no lies, toilet paper was actually munched on by one of our members.

Clean of course!

Everyone loves to lick the bowl after making a cake!

'I wanted cake mix so much, I could eat it by the bowl load. I know it's really bad as it has raw egg in it, but I loved it!'

Yes, really.

'I had a huge craving for paper clips (I didn't actually eat any but sucked on them vehemently).'

Fancy a cuppa? Don't bother – the contents of a teabag will do!

'Seriously. I want to chew on dry teabags all day long!'

A fairly popular one, it seems!

'I loved eating chalk in both my pregnancies and was particularly fussy about the brand. When white chalk was hard to find I moved onto coloured chalks but never really liked the pink ones.'

Lots of our mums craved mud and soil.

'I craved mud in both my pregnancies. I didn't tell my husband at first in case he thought it was disgusting, but I couldn't lie when he caught me licking the unwashed potatoes.'

Don't try this at home!

'I craved fire lighters – I didn't actually eat them, but found it very hard to resist,' said one mum in the Netmums forum.

Danielle, blogger from Blog by Baby, craved soap throughout all her pregnancies. She said:

'I went to the doctors and they explained that it does have a medical reason behind it, it’s called PICA craving, and happens when you have low iron levels. Despite being on iron supplements, it never seemed to subside.'

Eating ice is a fairly common craving during pregnancy. There could be several reasons for this, including morning sickness and heartburn. Another reason could be because of rising body temperature throughout pregnancy and feeling increasingly hot.

Be careful though, too much ice-munching can damage the enamel on your teeth, which could make them sensitive or expose them to decay. 

At least there's something healthy in there but it's still quite some combo ...

Maybe the sourness of the pickled onion compliments the chocolate?

We could see this working, depending on the flavour of the ice cream.

We're guessing the cheese replaces milk here but we can't lie, it still sounds gross.

Not that bad in our opinion.

Yes, you read that right, custard not mustard.

'I couldn't get enough of custardy nuggets, by my third trimester it was hard not to have them every day!' said one mum on our forum.

This one is really rather specific.

Not to drink, but to smell – still rather dangerous though.

Another smell one. We all love the smell of a clean house but this is maybe taking it a tad too far.

Very specific, but we can understand the satisfaction.

Because who doesn't like the smell of being clean?