"Unlike
eyesight, which can take a few years to develop, smell is the most
advanced sense that babies have at birth," explains Seema
Csukas, M.D., director of child health promotion at Children's
Healthcare of Atlanta. And tots use their sniffer mostly to stay
close to you.
Even before birth,
fetuses can smell. One study found that 3-day-old infants could
recognize the specific smell of their mom's amniotic fluid. At birth,
a newborn is drawn to the smell of breast milk; by 2 weeks, a baby
can tell the difference between the scent of his mother's breast milk
and another mom's milk.
A familiar odor can
soothe your infant, a recent Swiss study found, so try holding her
with a blanket that smells of breast milk or baby lotion during her
next vaccination. For the first two months, your baby prefers your
scent to anyone else's. Even at your dirtiest, your baby still thinks
you smell like roses.
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