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Cucumbers in milk, peanut butter and chicken, whole lemons...you may find yourself craving food that wasn't appealing to you before you got pregnant. And these cravings can be overpowering and urgent: You feel like you need to eat it and you need to eat it now.

Some people think that a pregnant woman craves certain foods in order to get the nutrients her body needs to support the pregnancy, but there's little scientific evidence to support or refute this hypothesis.

Martha Rose Shulman and Dr. Jane Davis, authors of "Every Woman's Guide to Eating During Pregnancy," advise that in the first trimester you give in to cravings as soon as you have them to help avoid nausea. However, they also say that it's...

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ladyhoward
ladyhoward
May 21, 2008

Crazy food cravings!

I've never been someone who had food cravings, until I was pregnant. Suddenly I felt like I had to have certain foods, and I had to have them NOW!...  read more

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