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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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Life-affirming scent
“The fact that the pleasure centres are activated makes it more rewarding at a time when parenthood is very intensive and depleting. Our little receptors are lighting up and we have good feelings to offset all the hard work and exhaustion,” author and psychologist Diane Sanford explains. (You can snaffle her book, Life Will Never Be the Same: The Real Mom’s Postpartum Survival Guide if you’d like to read more of her thoughts.)
This article was originally published in April 2017.