How long does it take to get food cravings when you’re pregnant

How long does it take to get food cravings when you’re pregnant?

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Some women have food cravings early on in pregnancy and other may take several months if not at all. It varies.

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Q: For many women, powerful food cravings for certain foods come with the territory during pregnancy. You’ve probably heard tales of loved ones being dispatched at all hours to search for a certain brand of bacon double cheeseburger or rocky road ice cream to quell an expectant mom’s desire. Perhaps you’ve felt an overwhelming urge to splurge firsthand. Truth is, nobody is sure why some women have pregnancy food cravings. “Some experts say cravings, and their flip side, food aversions, are protective, even if there is no scientific data to back up that theory,” says Siobhan Dolan, MD, assistant medical director of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation and assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology and women’s health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. For example, you may not feel like drinking alcohol when pregnant, which is beneficial since avoiding beer, wine, and other spirits fosters your baby’s mental and physical development. Others think a pregnant woman’s preference for certain foods such as salt-laden potato chips is nature’s way of helping her meet her daily sodium quota. However, it’s highly unlikely that cells translate so-called nutrient shortfalls into food cravings. Longing for a particular food tends to distinguish pregnancy food cravings from cravings women have when they are not expecting. Pregnancy Cravings Are in a Class by Themselves So food cravings are probably all in your head, a product of pregnancy hormones. Hormonal shifts during pregnancy intensify sense of smell (which heavily influences taste) and are powerful enough to affect food choices. “It’s possible that women who are feeling nauseous, bloated, tired, or crabby due to the effects of pregnancy hormones look for foods to increase their comfort level,” says Elisa Zied, a registered dietitian and spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. “Some women who deprive themselves when they’re not pregnant think of pregnancy as a time to treat themselves to foods they typically avoid.” When expecting, Zied favored foods she loved as a teen but ate far less often in the years leading up to her two pregnancies. A combination of kielbasa and melted cheese atop toasted English muffins were big with Zied during her first pregnancy. When due with her second child, she preferred Cheez-Its over anything else. How does a nutrition professional who knows better manage cravings? By eating small portions of the lower-fat versions of her favorite foods. “When I wanted those foods, I really wanted them, so I gave in, always mindful of how much I was eating,” she says. Food Cravings Aren’t All Bad The foods women tend to want are, in fact, good choices. Take dairy products, for example, rich in protein, calcium, and several other nutrients, which are among the top foods women want during pregnancy, according to the March of Dimes. When Dolan was pregnant, cranberry juice was all she wanted to drink. Fortified cranberry juice can be an excellent source of calcium or vitamin C and contains an array of other nutrients necessary during pregnancy. Food cravings typically differ from pregnancy to pregnancy. They may also change from day to day. Don’t be surprised when the food you had to have yesterday repulses you today. Sometimes, a pregnancy changes food preferences permanently. After delivering, Dolan’s love of cranberry juice turned to distaste. “Now, I won’t even go near it,” she says. Some women find themselves with a yen for nonfood items, including ice, dirt, clay, paper, and even paint chips, a condition known as pica. Pica may signal iron deficiency. Expectant mothers may also get the urge to eat flour or cornstarch, which, despite being food items, are a problem in large amounts. Too much can lead to blocked bowels and crowd out the nutrients your baby needs by causing you to feel full. If you have any of these urges, resist eating the items you crave, and report them to your doctor right away. No matter how strong your desire, steer clear of foods considered health risks for pregnant women and developing babies. These include: Raw and undercooked seafood, meat, and eggs Unpasteurized milk and any foods made from it, including Brie, feta, Camembert, Roquefort, and Mexican-style cheeses Unpasteurized juice Raw vegetable sprouts, including alfalfa, clover, and radish Herbal teas Alcohol

A: i sent my hubby out at 3 am for grape tomatoes once.was this a qusetion?

Pregnancy and false negatives?

Q: Alright. So I’m not entirely sure what I’m asking here, maybe just..some opinions.I’m on the NuvaRing and take it properly.I had sex on the 6th in july, 3 times. He didn’t finish inside me any of the times, once was anal and the last 2 times we finished with a blow job. I think this is pretty low risk, isn’t it? I know sometimes sperm can stay in the urethra after sex and come out when you have sex the next time, though.. The last time we had sex, the ring was out for maybe 45 minutes or so, the ring was probably out for about an hour and a half total all the times we had sex, and I believe that was the only times it was removed for that ring-which I had in for 4 weeks. In the NuvaRing info it says you are still protected if the ring it out for less than 3 hours.I skipped my last period with birth control (bad timing, I didn’t want to have it for 2 events that were in the week I would have had my period).Then last week, I started to get nausea. Waves of it at random times. I noticed smells started to bother me. I get headaches, can’t sleep, I’m exhausted. I get cravings and suddenly can’t eat certain foods-the smell makes me nauseous. All these things freaked me out, so on thursday night I removed the ring to see if my period would come.I went and bought 2 pregnancy tests yesterday and took one as soon as I got home, it was negative. I’m still waiting for my period, I usually get it after the ring is out for 2-3 days, sometimes later. I don’t have any cramps though, which I normally get on the second day. I seem to have slightly spotting..my discharge is pink, but that’s it.I’m wondering how likely it is to get a false negative on a test if you’re about 6 weeks pregnant? Should I take the second test now? How long should I wait before I go to the doctor’s for a bloodtest? If I get a blood test how long do I have to wait for results?(I’m talking to someone that was in a similar situation, had sex on birth control with a condom, skipped a period and around 6 weeks took 3 pregnancy tests and all came out negative. She went for a bloodtest and found out she was pregnant-is this common? It’s freaking me out, haha.)

A: Some women don’t have enough HCG in their urine for a urinary preg test to work. Therefore, the test may come up negative all the time when you really are infact pregnant.There are only 2 acurate and 100% guarantee ways of finding out if you are pregnant:1. Get a quantitative preg blood test done. This test checks for the HCG hormone in your body and also tells the percentage of it, which will tell you how far off pregnant you are.2. Ultrasound. Evene if its to early to see or hear fetus, the doctor can still spot the gestational sac.With a quantitative test, the doc has to send the blood to a lab so the results can take ne where from 3-5 days…sometimes a week.You can also take a QUALITATIVE test, which is done at the docs office and u get the results in 5 min. With this test all you get is a yes or no answer…it is compared to the urine test as being just as sensitive