JoanJohnson:
This is really funny. I know of a lady who used to come to our compound to ask of sour soup, she would go to the restaurant close by and get all the stale soup, another was our next door neighbour who liked wood, she chews it like meat. I pray mine shouldn't be tasking for my future hubby.

So blessed to be a woman.

troy20:

it is indeed when you have someone who shares same dreams as yours.we can make it happen dear.

EfemenaXY:
Native chalk. The craving for it for ALL of my pregnancies was so bad, it nearly drove me crazy.

I did manage to coax my nan (God bless her soul) into giving me some when we travelled back to Naija during my first pregnancy. When we got back, where did I hide my stash? On top of our wardrobe, within full view. Didn't take long before hubby found out & got rid of them.

My midwife didn't help matters either by telling me that the mercury content in them was harmful to the unborn baby. #sigh#

So I had to improvise. Really dry, plain, unsalted rice cakes. Hubby & kids complained a lot that the whole house smelt like a pharmacy! Well,at least these were harmless cravings.

Other weird desires: you know that smell you get from the tarred road, just after it's rained on a very hot day? Ahhh... I always just wanted to lay on the ground and lick the street!

Also had this odd desire for crunching ice cubes, even in the dead of winter. Oh, and yam porridge with plantains was another favourite craving of mine.

nefertitiram:
Oh, then there was small stout! I had never tasted d ish before I got preg, but then I realised it was the only solution for that horrible taste in my mouth. Hubby got tired of picking half drunken small stout bottles all around the house.
One day my neighbour saw me buying stout, he sed madam! Na you wan drink am? I said no o! I have a visitor! Hehehehe

urheme:
Alcohol
I drank a lot of hot drink during my second pregnancy
Drank all my mum's mini sach in her shop, i probabaly drank her out of that line of business when i went to visit, she willingly started buying me palmy everyday so i don't touch hot drinks

There was a day i drank one bottle of moet and a bottle of wine all in one day, and at about 9pm that same day hubby came back from his wanderring and i fought him badly.


Funny enough the drinking continued till i delivered
The boy is two years plus now and very healthy
He was very handsome at birth

Ranchhoddas:
Your son is going to be the Director-General of the NDA--Nigerian Drinkers Association.

cutiereborn:

Sorry love, you are a month-plus late

masties2:
My cravings ± yam head. Yes o, not yam but d head of yam. I beheaded all d yams in my store nz it up. So sweet n thick. Ofada rice was anoda, i would always carry plate to d market to buy ofada rice.but d worst of all was garri drinking. I would drink garri with every meal even eba sef . Na wa o.

taryour:
Nice thread.

Oh I loved boiled corn with chilled coke, I could eat over 400 naira worth at a go. Infact I begged a stranger in a public transport for boiled corn.the woman wasn't surprised,she just handed over. You needed to see how I rushed the corn like I had been starved for years,I was so happy. I had hungrily watched the woman eat her corn jejely until it got to the last piece,I couldn't bear it anymore I wanted to cry I just had to open up and beg for the corn.

Jamean:


Fast forward till now, I have battled with dandruff like someone trying to treat cancer, yet not much result.

Moral : you will have cravings during pregnancy, but watch it, 'cause they may have adverse effect on you and your baby.

DrGill:
well...i experienced a stresful one frm my brodas wife,my broda got dis exact contract & he had to go overseas. to cut story shut, my brodas wife almost squized d life out of me,she would wake up probably 2am, sumtyms 3.30am & tell me to prepare potato poridge wit pepper soup,sumtyms, tuwo, indomie nd ewedu(yes, indomie nd ewedu,.lolz) nd all of it dat amazed me wat dat she loved video games especialy soccer (FIFA13 then),chai she sabi play am die,always uses REAL MADRID,we can play togeda for long while ,wen i get slipy,datz wen she goes off to her room maybe to slip nd anoda funny tin is dat i ran all erand she sent me, eida to market or oda places ..chai ..fun filled GOD BLESS WOMEN

360command:
have you tried using "damatol". If NO, try be on your natural hair for a while and keep applying damatol on your scalp. If you are the type that makes use of shampoo,after 3days,dandruff takes effect-stop it. Watch out for the type of hair creme you use. In essence, study your hair and why you keep having dandruff often. There must be an answer to it.

Jamean:
My mum always share the story of how she always had severe cravings to drink garri when she conceived me, irrespective of what she cooked.

A neighbour noticed and told her it was gonna cause dandruff on the baby's scalp. She ignored it and went on drinking garri

She said 3weeks after I was born, while bathing me, she discovered a plethora of dandruff on my scalp

Fast forward till now, I have battled with dandruff like someone trying to treat cancer, yet not much result.

Moral : you will have cravings during pregnancy, but watch it, 'cause they may have adverse effect on you and your baby.

troy20:

you married?

cutiereborn:

Yes I am, happily so, a month plus 2day

troy20:

i wish you a contineous bliss.and hope we find same as you do.

dhabeautyjas:


Could that be the reason for my dandruff? i have tried all forms of treatment and it just doesnt go, i remember mum telling me she drank garri and ice block like kilode while she was pregnant...

smartmom:
@taryour, your account is so real well done

I had to travel back home to get my mom's ogbono soup with local seasoning(called okpehe in idoma) to store in the freezer for the future, mind you it was a 6 hour trip o! After eating it twice I couldnt stand the sight or smell

I couldnt stand the sight of raw egg or tomatoes cooking. For 4 months I couldnt eat any stew. Ate white rice with peppersoup hmm what mothers go through eh!

After a while it was kpekere(unripe fried plantain) and that lasted for about 3 weeks! Then it was mangos of a particular specie! I could pay a fortune for that!

mencade4:
dechandel, come and explain our experience...