Now you have never been a pickle lover, but suddenly during your pregnancy you crave the sour and salty taste of all kinds of pickles;
you can’t seem to have enough of those tasty treats! Or suddenly at midnight, you develop a sudden fondness of a fully loaded pizza.
And now that you are pregnant you crave chocolate when usually you are not even a sweet person!
Specific food cravings are very much a symptom of pregnancy; perhaps as much as morning sickness and all the other symptoms. It is thought that pregnant women crave certain foods because they are required by the body to nourish the unborn child.
For instance, some foods with particular nutritional content may be what a woman craves for: for instance a vegetarian woman may be horrified to be craving meat; which would probably be the extra requirement for protein that a pregnant body has.
Equally some women develop food aversions during pregnancy which they did not otherwise have. For instance a woman may otherwise enjoy eating cottage cheese but cannot stand the sight of it during her pregnant state. Or the smell of boiling milk may send another strait to the loo to throw up!
There are several reasons to keep food cravings and aversions within check when you are pregnant:
Keeping these few pointers in mind, there is no reason why you should not otherwise indulge your cravings to the hilt!
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