Cravings for pickled onions and gherkins dipped in ice cream? Oh, no, no no, not on Parentdish. Here are the most bizarre cravings and strangest pregnancy conditions we have ever come across.
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Cravings for pickled onions and gherkins dipped in ice cream? Oh, no, no no, not on Parentdish. Here are the most bizarre Bizarre pregnancy conditions and cravings
- Pregnant woman brays like a donkey<p> <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;">A teenager with </span><a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/02/01/erin-brockovich-investigates-mystery-of-15-girls-at-same-school-developing-tourettes/" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;" target="_blank">Tourette's Syndrome</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;"> started </span><a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/02/14/teenage-tourettes-sufferer-starts-braying-like-a-donkey-after-falling-pregnant/" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;" target="_blank">braying like a donkey</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;"> days after she fell pregnant! Cody Hagel, 18, - who has suffered with the condition for four years - started mimicking the animals on her family's farm. She told reporters: "My Tourette's started with the onset of puberty and I think my pregnancy hormones are probably to blame for the change in my tics. The braying started pretty much immediately after I fell pregnant and I've been suffering with it ever since!”</span></p>
- Mum-to-be eats furniture polish<p> <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;">Forget gherkins and pickles onions, mum-to-be Emma Veness </span><a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/07/18/cravings-in-pregnancy-mum-to-be-cant-stop-eating-furniture-po/" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;" target="_blank">craved furniture polish throughout her pregnancy!</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;"> Emma ‘ate’ the polish up to three times a day during her second pregnancy. And if you’re wondering how she ‘ate’ a spray, it’s all about spraying onto your fingers and licking the polish off. Naturally. </span></p>
- Mum-to-be's burning blisters caused by allergy to her unborn baby<p> <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;">Zuleika Closs, 26, </span><a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/12/14/pregnant-woman-burning-blisters-caused-by-allergy-to-her-unborn-baby/" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;" target="_blank">developed a burning, itchy rash</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;"> all over her body when she was 20 weeks pregnant with her son Emmanuel. It's thought she has </span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2247434/Rare-pregnancy-disorder-Pemphigoid-gestationis-leaves-woman-covered-agonising-blisters.html" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;" target="_blank">pemphigoid gestationis</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;">, a condition which affects one in two million women, caused by placenta tissue entering the mother's blood stream and reacting with her immune system. After Emmanuel was born, the rash died down, but the mum from Cornwall has been told it could return if she falls pregnant again. </span></p>
- Pregnant woman eats newspaper<p> <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;">Mum Anna Curran was unable to </span><a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/02/17/is-this-the-most-bizarre-pregnancy-craving-ever-mum-to-be-hooked-on-eating-newspapers/" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;" target="_blank">stop munching on newspapers</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;"> during her pregnancy, even keeping shredded copies in her bag for snacks throughout the day! “I can't help it. I just need to get the flavour of it,” said Anna. “I could be sitting in the bingo hall and I'll start ripping out pages of the newspaper and all the people look at me going, 'What is she doing?' I sit and tear the white bits off the edges of the pages and keep them in a bag so I can eat them while shopping."</span></p>
- Mum-to-be craves roadkill<p> <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;">Expectant mum Alison Brierley hit the headlines when she admitted </span><a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/11/09/mum-to-bes-pregnancy-cravings-for-road-kill/" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;" target="_blank">eating roadkill during her pregnancy!</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;"> The mum-to-be collected and cooked dead animals near her Harrogate home throughout her pregnancy, explaining: “Usually I eat really healthily but now I'm pregnant I get strong cravings for road kill. It's more gamey than other meat and I love the taste. I also don't have to feel guilty about eating it because I know it's had a completely free range and natural life."</span></p>
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