A Turakina mother with insatiable pregnancy urges to eat laundry powder has managed to control her cravings.
Michaela Martin, 23, said her midwife put her on iron supplements and an iron-rich diet after blood tests revealed she had a "really bad" deficiency.
Miss Martin sought help on Facebook last month for her washing powder cravings, which began late in her second trimester.
She told the Chronicle it started as a craving to sniff the powder while doing the washing, but into her third trimester she began putting small amounts in her mouth and chewing it before rinsing her mouth out.
Since speaking to her midwife and discovering the iron deficiency, the cravings had "subsided substantially".