To think a newborn baby smell..

[happygilmore]

..is the best smell ever?

DD is 12 weeks old and it's gone :(

The loveliest smell :)

Poo smelling nice

Yes I know it's a fluffy thread not a ruck in AIBU but why not :)

Maybe I should have said bf babies smell better than ff fed ones, AIBU?

Do you think breast fed baby's keep the smell for longer ?

It's newborn baby breath that I love, when they yawn in your face it's heaven

I have 5 children and if any of them climb into my bed at night I know which one it is by just sniffing their hair; my eldest is 15 and I have always been able to do this.

Mmmmm I'm still sniffing DS regularly (he's 10 weeks), I can spend an hour kissing and sniffing his head. Luckily he isn't phased by this, just sits there with a stoic expression!

My friend's newborn smells scented, very perfumed from products. I don't know how she can, I wash him mainly in just plain water as I love his smell so much!

Its nice yeah but i love the smell of my 3yr old best when hes been sweaty and then isnt but smells all nice and i dont know what the smell is but its just him. he is asleep and ive just sniffed him right in.

[whacks Spacehopper in the face with a stinky fish]

Sorry, was that uncalled for?

DH thought DS smelled of pork when he was newborn. He's 9 mnths no and I am ALWAYS sniffing the top of his head. It's like drugs!

YANBU. I work in a team of 18 women, one of the girls had a baby earlier this year, she brought baby in and we all had a hold, and we all had a good sniff of newborn. They do smell totally gorgeous. I remember DD had a very sweet smell, and DS smelled more yoghurty but just as delicious.
Now they tend to smell of dirt and whatever remains of lunch they have smeared in their hair etc.

When she was tiny I used to smell DD2's dirty nappies after I had folded them up because they smelled so nice AIBU

DS was BF as it happens and I only noticed the sweetness because my first child wasn't.

My Mum was always comparing him unfavourably to my similarly-aged niece saying, "but he should be doing proper dark hard smelly poos at six weeks like Britnee-Shian by now" and trying to give him high-fibre cereal so it does go both ways...

Newborn baby breath! FF or whatever, who cares that is heaven.

I hadn't come across it until a friend had a baby and I went to visit and he smelt delish - it was her 2nd baby and neither of us remembered the first one smelling so yummy!
My own DD sadly didn't smell quite as divine but she still smelled pretty good.

Sorry but I have never been able to understand this. Babies just seem to smell of piss, shit and puke, and yes, I have had 2!

yabu they smell of puke. Maybe it has to be your own sprog

I used to go into dd's room in them mornings and the whole room used to smell strongly of honey!

I asked the health visitor if that was normal and got a bit of a reaction.

Dd's in her teens now but I still like a good ol' first-thing-in-the-morning sniff...

"Come 'ere, gorgeous!"

I think youre all nutters, but then i cant ever remember being anywhere near a newborn baby, always kinda recoiled away from them, but as im now 19 weeks pregnant i suppose i`ll be finding out for myself, although if he smells of shit and puke and stale milk i will be very disappointed now youve all got my hopes up of having a divine smelling baby

My DS never smelt of anything as a newborn and now he just smells of Johnssons hair conditioner which is divine. I was really looking forward to smelling this much talked about newborn smell and was slightly dissapointed when there was nothing. Maybe this was because he was born by c-sect so had all the odiur rubbed off him by the midwife by the time he was handed to me? He was also breastfed and although it made his poos smell sweet and not at all unpleasent, it didn't make him smell any different. I'm currently expecting baby no2 and I hope this is a smelly one!

My newborn DS smelled like

a: my dreams being buried
b: my career grinding to a halt
c: my sexual identity being destroyed
d: shit and piss

Don't really know if I want to smell that stink again.

I think the smell must come from the amniotic fluid that surrounds them as this does smell really nice, like marzipan. Next time anyone is leaking waters, put on a pad and have a sniff, it really is such a sweet smell!

Thats the thing that makes me about never having another baby (have had 3 and I'm done!) snuggling my nose into that little neck, all warm and milky smelling....

First thing I do as soon as they are born is hold them to my face and smell them!

snobear4000 don't forget

5:vomit.

:) my newborn smells delicious. a and already way passed being detectable by nose.