I crave strange foods and tastes at odd hours!

hi there, i wasn't sure about what you meant by bitter gourd so i was going to say that i know someone having cravings for bitter melons. but then i just found out because i searched on it that bitter gourds and bitter melons are just the same. i think that is just normal. my mom told us that when i was i her belly, all she wanted to eat was just banana banana banana and all she wanted to drink was coke coke coke hhehehe. you can also ask your OB-GYN about this. she can advise you if eating this is okay and safe for the baby. some pregnant women are even having this pica eating where they eat soaps, clay, coal, dirt. that is horrible right? it is like a craving they cant control. i hope you are doing well, take care and Congratulations on the baby

I do know two women that while pregnant craved odd and bitter tasting foods, in fact one of them use to crave and eat chalk like it was candy. I use to ask her if that was safe and according to her, her OB was not concerned because her blood testing was all normal. She use to eat chalk like figurines and I could not believe she was doing that and it being okay. Well her son now is 4 years old and healthy so apparently it did not affect her.

I suppose you always like bittergourd or perhaps you are not averse to it.In that case it is pretty natural.

When my mother was pregnant with my brother she used to eat the leaf of a certain plant. It was a bitter taste that she said she craved. We would walk to a store about half a mile away just so she could take one leaf of the plant to eat and then she would feel guilty and buy things we really didn't need. When I was pregnant with my daughter I became a cheese junkie. There is an ingredient in cheese that can become addictive! I had to have a personal pan pizza everyday from a certain pizzeria. It was in another town but I would have her dad drive 20 minutes just to take me there. I also ate at least a half pound of american cheese everyday. Needless to say, I gained 72 pounds for that pregnancy!

It is new to me, I never heard pregnant women craves for bitter food , you are the first. But I'm not suprised because every pregnant women is different due to the homones changes, I craved for spicy food when Iw as pregnant.

hello devijay, I don't know anyone personally that crave for bitter taste foods during pregnancy,thu ive heard from other mothers that other preggy do crave for bitter taste foods. But i know one odd food craving when she's pregnant is my aunt's sister-in law,she always bring rice grains in her pocket and eating it like a popcorn. I was young by that time,and don't understand why she's eating rice grains and what's the relevance with her pregnancy. But now,i know that many pregnant women craves different foods and tastes during pregnancy. have a great weekend

I know somebody who craved for bitter taste when she was pregnant and that was my grandmother when she was pregnant with my mom. My mom always had this poker face when she's too busy and my grandmother told me it's because of the food she ate when she was pregnant. She craved for bitter taste so that's why my mom always had this poker face. That was her explanation to me. So i guess you are not alone in this world. I wish to get pregnant again and go through that feeling again, craving for strange taste.