I can't recall what she said about women who craved laundry soap................ some kind of deficiency of some sort. The body must know what it needs and starts to crave it. Iron. If a pregnant woman craves ice, that too is an iron deficiency sign. When I was 8 months pregnant one August and eating 8 trays of mini ice cubes a day, and told my CNM that I thought I was iron deficient for that reason, she said "You're probably just hot." Well, I didn't have enough strength for the birth and after a futile, 2-day long natural labor, had a C-section during which I bled a lot and became anemic. So if someone-especially a pregnant woman is craving wierd things, it must be taken very seriously. The body does indeed know what it needs, even if the (my) midwife is too stupid to realize it. Stacie