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Sweet or savoury...? Boy or girl...?
I've always enjoyed chocolate and cake but since finding out I'm pregnant, I'm loving savoury foods - salty crackers / rice cakes / crisps etc... But not bread, gone off that a bit. And most definitely seem to have gone off chocolate?!!! Not happy about that one. The old wives tale savoury for a boy, sweet for a girl - thinking this baby could be a boy. Also, my previous pregnancies, I had no symptoms but this time I seem to have been given a dose of everything! So although I'm 100% team yellow I do like to have a guess...xx
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I love guessing based on old wives tales
I def had a bit of a svaoury tooth with ds, but it didnt stop me eating chocolate This time I still crave savoury but I think its because I dont eat much carbs (try to avoid large sources of gluten) and need them more now.
With ds I was just exhuasted in the first trimester, this time I've yet to feel that exhuastion and need for 10+ hours sleep. I did have pangs of nausea early on this time which I didnt have with ds, and my good my boob and nipples are sore and sensitive this time
Staying team yellow, so I'm with you on the guessing front!
Wildthing I'm the same, have totally gone off chocolate & have had a dose of every symptom going.
I was craving salty things a couple of weeks ago but I'm now on to juicy /sweety things like fruit pastilles, jelly babies & grapes & strawberries. Apparently the salt thing is your body telling you that your kidneys need more salt, I read something about it on line as hubby was worried that my salt cravings were a bad thing.
Will be fun guessing what it's going to be. I'm really excited about being team yellow now. xx
Last time I was a cake and biscuit monster and I had a boy.
This time I've not had anything really yet.
Team yellow too
Wildthing have a look at this. I can't find the one I was looking at but this explains a little. http://www.saltsense.co.uk/downloads/position_paper_eusalt5.pdf
We do seem to have everything the same so far so will definitely be interesting to see if we both have the same sex.xx
I too have wanted salty stuff, so supernoodles, pot noodles, pasta n sauce, stuff we have never ever bought before! That thankfully seems to have passed, still don't fancy a cake or anything sweet, apart from Sprite, which I can't seem to get enough of, I am rationing myself to half a can a day, as literally a sip is enough to make me feel better!
Def not craving more one way or the other as yet for savoury or sweet, I just want bland food, which is really not like me!
I've been drinking sprite too & caffeine free diet coke. Just sipping them make me feel a little better. Totally gone off coffee & in the last week or so I can't face tea either.
Also same with the bland food, I'm eating a lot of toast, potatoes, chicken & trying to add some veg in. Just thinking about certain foods make me gag & any strong smells too.
Going out for a meal tonight for a friends birthday & same again on Thursday for another friend. I'm dreading them both because just reading the menus can make me heave.
Also I'm that tired all I want to do after work is curl up on the sofa in my pj's.
I've found this gender predictor on the BE website, according to this, I am going to have a girl lol.
http://www.babyexpert.com/tools/baby-sex-predictor
I've not really changed my appetite yet. Last time I completely went off chocolate in my first trimester, and we had a boy.
Didn't really go for the old wives tales last time, as i was so convinced I was having a boy from the start, I still don't know why, but I was right. This time i don't really have any strong feelings either way yet, apart from the twin thing early on, but think i've changed my mind about that now.
xxx
and had a boy, whereas 2 off my friends have been craving
cheese and pickles and corned beef and have both had girls!
Def just an old wives tale! I also heard that morning sickness
is worse if you're carrying a girl, yet I had it really bad until
about 20 weeks and my friend who has had 3 girls has not
suffered with it once!! The only truth is that we are all
different!x x
I am about 16 weeks pregnant
in start days I didn't notice about my food liking or disliking but from a mnth now l eat spicy things but I can't digest them (vomiting) but I can only stand with sweet things now
its my frst pragnancy
I have 2 boys first one craved cheese and onion pasties and could only drink juice and still drinks no fizzy second boy currys and then sweet things and could only drink fizzy drinks and went off tea and now my youngest won't go near fizzy lol so I think you never can tell gl in your pregnancy x