What was your food aversion while pregnant that you were able to eat again after giving birth?

Mine is was boiled eggs 🥚🥚

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The only aversion I had was left overs. And I'm serious...I almost bit my husband's head off on a camping road trip when he wanted me to eat left overs we had in the cooler verses getting fresh food on the road. One of my earliest symptoms. This trip I was about 2 months pregnant and still didn't know yet.

My cravings were clementines and bread of all kinds!!

Mine was eggs too. Didn’t matter how they were prepared but the smell and taste of them made me sick

Steak. 😭 I love steak but I threw it up every time I tried to eat it when I was pregnant. I could eat ground beef with no problem, but steak - nope, Little boy hated it 👎

I wanted to eat ice cream
But every single time I ate ice cream I vomited it up it wouldn’t sit well in my stomach

Peanut butter, the smell would make me throw up. I even knew if my husband had had some at point during the day

Haha omg. How did you find out?

Ahh. Mine were specifically boiled and then I couldn’t get myself to eat them in anyway because it reminded me of the taste and smell boiled lol

Oh that’s so interesting! Funny how our bodies react to different foods.

Aww that’s tough! I would get nauseous preparing meat mostly.

Oh nooo! So tasty but yet the after effects 🤢

Lol omg. Pregnancy is so interesting!

The smell of ground beef cooking was horrible and it still makes me nauseous. Ranch was the only thing I had an aversion to that went away within a few weeks though

Coffee and chicken !

Meat! I couldn’t stand it.

Coffee!

anything minty 🤮🤮 even the smell of it could make me vomit, and i usually love mint. makes brushing my teeth and taking gaviscon for the heartburn awful haha

Obsessed with pickles but both pregnancies I wanted nothing to do with them 😭

Chicken. And raw vegetables for a while. I was able to start eating them later in pregnancy though.

And at times if I was just served those foods and didn’t have to cook or prepare them I could eat them.

Meat of any kind, but especially if I bought it raw, I couldn't bring myself to cook it. 🤢

Black coffee ☕️ and fried food 🍟

we found out on THAT road trip actually. I was peri-menopausal for 2 years already & consistently skipping every other period cycle, so obviously when I skipped one I didn't think anything of it. Then we head out on this camping road trip from NY to Texas to visit my just born nephew from my brother and his wife, and my pregnant sister!! That first night camping my husband had a dream that I was pregnant with twins and that we were really happy. We go about our trip, spend a week in TX, in which I skipped my SECOND😱 cycle, and we all joked haha maybe I'm pregnant too. (Mind you I was 43 yrs, not actively trying, & peri-menopausal). So we hit the road to head back to NY & I said to my husband, you know, maybe we should stop & take a pregnancy test just to be sure, so there I am in the middle of nowhere Texas CVS, floating out to my car with a positive pregnancy test to show my hubby!! 😍 And he was right, we were having twins, only it was a Gemini ♊ the sign of twins. He was born in June!!

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