The one smell women cant resist...

[CelticPrince]

I saw this this morning, and laughed. How many times have you seen women do this?

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I wonder if it is the baby -mones triggering the maternal instinct? Discuss.

[John_Sebastian]

Haha, got a good laugh here.

No doubt it’s baby mones triggering a maternal response.

There’s a good paper out there on NIH expanding this thought. See–

Human chemical signals may also play a role in offspring identification. Odor cues from newborns are absolutely salient to their mothers.24 Mothers are able to distinguish the odor of their own newborn baby from that of other newborns.25 Experiments also have demonstrated that adults can even recognize gender and individuality of non-related children.26 Thus, body odors can provide humans with important information about the individual identity of their offspring.27–32
(Chemical communication and mother-infant recognition - PMC)
On the other hand, children usually prefer parts of clothes that were in contact with the axilla and worn by their own mothers to clothes worn by other mothers.25 Therefore, chemical signals seem to have a fundamental role in the mechanism of mother-child identification.30,33 Breast-feed versus bottle-feed infants show different reactions to maternal odors. Breast-feed infants are exposed to salient maternal odors and rapidly become familiarized with their mothers’ unique olfactory signature.34 Apparently, orientation to lactating-breast odors is an inborn adaptive response of newborns.35
(Chemical communication and mother-infant recognition - PMC)
It seems an inescapable conclusion that naturally occurring odors play an important role in mediating infant behavior. Even fetal olfactory learning seems to occur and breast odors from the mother exert a pheromone-like effect at the newborn’s first attempt to locate the nipple. Newborns are generally responsive to breast odors produced by lactating women.33 Olfactory recognition may be implicated in the early stages of the mother-infant attachment process, when the newborns learn to recognize their own mother’s unique odor signature: this process is possibly made easier by the high norepinephrine release and the arousal of the locus coeruleus at birth.36 Human infants are responsive to maternal odors beginning shortly after birth. They show an attraction to amniotic fluid odor that may reflect fetal exposure to that substance (i.e., prenatal olfactory learning37). Moreover, human amniotic fluid seems to carry individualized odor properties, which are hypothesized to initiate parent-infant interactions.38

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