What are the most common pregnancy cravings?

In our community entries, sweets, fruit, salty snacks, ice cream, cheese, chocolate lead the list.

Do cravings predict whether you are having a boy or a girl?

No. We checked the folklore against real recorded outcomes: some cravings lean a few points one way, but nothing close to a prediction.

From the Baby Notebook community

The most common pregnancy cravings, ranked from real entries

The three most common cravings

Sweets, Fruit and Salty snacks

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Not a survey. These are real, anonymous cravings from across the Baby Notebook community, and each craving page checks the boy-or-girl folklore against what those families actually had.

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