03-20-2004, 04:18 PM
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Multi-Sexual
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,244
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When you are pregnant, doctors are supposed to ask if you have any new cravings from a list of 7 or 8, such as- eating laundry detergent, eating ashes from cigarettes, eating wet coffee grounds and eating ice cubes.
If you crave it, you're body is low on iron, like monsterously low. But, there's a difference in doing it because you like it, and craving it, as in needing to do it right then.
Apparently, when you are pregnant, the desire is supposed to be stronger, which is why almost all women have their iron checked several times during a pregnancy, and why prenatal vitamans are high in iron.
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