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Here’s why “New Baby Smell” is weaving its clever baby magic on you
If you thought the smell of newborn was casting some kind of adorable, addictive spell on you, you’d be 100 percent correct!
We’ve turned to science-y types to discover just how babies weave this clever magic on us – and why!
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Bottling 'New Baby'
A research team cleverly captured the ‘essence of newborn’, taking t-shirts babies had worn for a couple of days and freezing them in plastic bags to preserve the adorable baby fragrance. This marked stage one of unravelling the mystery of new baby smell. Researchers then rounded up a bunch of women – half were new mothers and half were not. They wanted the women to smell the baby tees, so they could measure just what happened in their brains.
This article was originally published in April 2017.