Nurse Madam, your mother craves a word with you.

To the Editor: Women on becoming mothers crave the community of other women for support, advice, care and courage ("Weighing the Grandma Factor," Nov. 5).

But the mother craved wider opportunities for this, her youngest; money was freer with them now; and Mary Louise went to a preparatory school, then to Oberlin.

And this explains also birthmarks, when the mother craves something and ..." "Here I would proceed with greater caution.

The new mother of six-month-old twins Monroe and Moroccan craved tasty junk food during her pre-natal stage.

Although Pearl tells us that her mother "craves punishment," you don't really believe it.

A nervous person, her mother craved quiet, so there was virtually no television or radio playing in the home, Ms. Ryan said.

Yet there are a few intangibles that all mothers, whether screen stars or suburbanites, crave: say, peace and quiet, time, sleep and good manners - or simple forbearance.

Lihí refers also to a popular superstition that the offspring will closely resemble whatever its mother had craved for during pregnancy.

Jack sensed his mother craved more reassurance than she was admitting.