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Oh I never heard that before.... I haven't eaten eggs while pregnant actually, for no reason other than I don't fancy them. Apart from in cakes, of course

I've never heard an old wives' tale about eggs and pregnancy. In fact, my midwives and Bradley class instructor recommending eating two a day for a healthy pregnancy! I've just about done that (first trimester aside) with both pregnancies and the first went well and this one, at 35.5 weeks, has been great too. I can't say there is a direct correlation, obviously, but it certainly hasn't hurt anything!

Nope...I tried them once and they made me sick (along with pretty much all other foods).

I've inly heard you should eat them cooked.

I gagged when even making scrambled eggs for my son for most of the first tri this time so actually eating them was out of the question. Last pregnancy I don't remember being grossed out by them. I did have a breakfast burrito with egg in it the other day and that was delicious.

Funny, I have been able to eat them at Starbucks (maybe not the best place ever to get eggs) and I have craved eggs Benedict but my husband made them at home once and I almost killed him. The smell made me super sick.

DH makes scrambled eggs every morning and just the smell from 3 rooms away made me throw up a few times when I was pregnant.

I have heard they are one of the best things you can eat during pregnancy and that you should make sure they are fully cooked.

Yes, but no runny eggs

@sandy: I used to love eggs, but had a crazy aversion to them during both pregnancies I still can't eat eggs if I make them at home. Something about the cooking process still grosses me out.

I can eat them fine if I order from a restaurant though. So weird!

With my first LO, I couldn't even look at eggs until about 20 weeks. With my second, I didn't have the aversion and even admit to eating a few runny ones.

My in laws (including cousins and aunts) all swore up and down that eating an egg every day was the reason their kids were so smart. They all told me that I had to eat one every day and asked me about it to make sure I was. I might have had a pregnancy freak out moment to DH about that. I felt like they were implying my kids would be dumb if I didn't eat that damn egg every day. Drove. Me. Nuts.

But I'm not bitter or anything, lol.

I ate like an 18 carton of eggs a week. It was an insane craving I had during my pregnancy

I love runny eggs and now that I'm not allowed those, the thought of any egg at all just doesn't sound appealing.

Yep. Even the runny ones. I ate a ton of fried egg sandwiches

I think the rule is that you are not supposed to eat raw or runny eggs, but I asked my MW and she said to do some research and then do whatever made me comfortable. I found that the risk from well-sourced eggs was almost nothing, so I ate raw (chocolate mousse, cesaer salad) and runny eggs my whole pregnancy.

Fwiw, I have a scrambled egg aversion all the time, so I mostly ate my eggs hard-boiled or over easy. Deviled eggs were one of my favorite KU snacks!

Huuuuge egg aversion here! Postpartum I eat a ton though.

Didn't really want eggs during 1st trimester... Now I can eat a little bit. I can do boiled slices in a salad, but I still don't want like, a whole omelette or something.

I ate a TON of eggs while pregnant, but was just told to make sure they were cooked well, so scrambled and hard-boiled were fine. I did miss my fried egg with the runny yolk for breakfast though!

I could not have survived my 24/7 morning sickness for the first 15 weeks of my pregnancy without a sausage McMuffin with egg or a bacon breakast burrito from Taco Bell on the way to work every morning. The egg and carb combination needed to be in my belly within 20 minutes of waking up or I would be dead on the side of the highway. I did have a mild egg aversion (probably just because I was sick of them) for about a month, but they never made me sick or anything. I have been eating a lot of hard boiled eggs and egg salad lately since its so hot out!