We challenge you to find a more incredible smell than that of your newborn baby. Go on, we dare you. You can’t, can you?! We thought so!

 

Aside from the fact that we adore our babies and everything about them, it turns out that there is actually a scientific reason for why that beautiful baby smell is so intoxicating.

 

Physician Johannes Frasnelli, from the University of Quebec, recently opened up about the results of a study carried out to determine how and why that baby smell is so appealing to us.

 

In an interview for New York magazine, Frasnelli revealed that, back in 2013, he conducted an experiment using a group of 30 mums. Half the study subjects had just given birth, while the other half had never given birth.

 

 

According to the study, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, Frasnelli began the experiment by getting each woman to smell the scent of a baby born two days earlier.

 

They then studied the brain scans of each woman, to see exactly how smelling the sweet scent affected their brains.

 

The results were fascinating: Frasnelli and the team discovered that breathing in the scent of these newborn babies ‘elicited activation in reward-related cerebral areas in women’.

 

As for exactly what causes that delicious baby smell? Scientists don’t have a definitive answer for that one, but it’s believed to have something to do with leftover amniotic fluid, or the vernix caseosa.

 

 

This delightful research comes just weeks after it was revealed that babies can actually understand the difference between two languages while still in the womb.

 

According to a study carried out by a team at the University of Kansas, unborn babies have shown the ability to distinguish between English and Japanese before even entering the world.

 

How incredible are our gorgeous little bundles?!

 

Well, what do you think of the latest research about baby scent? If only we could bottle it and keep it forever!

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