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DD smells like a hamster!

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stroppyshopper · 17/06/2010 01:34

Have noticed over past week that my four-month-old daughter's head is giving off a strange aroma. Finally put my finger on it this afternoon -- it smells like a hamster cage! I bathe her nightly and haven't changed baby soap. She gets oil rub after bath, recently switched from sweet almond oil to olive oil, but olive oil doesn't normally smell like hamsters (and I've sniffed the bottle to see if we have a rogue-hamster-smelling one and we do not).

Every time I pick her up, I can't stop smelling hamsters!!! Yuck!

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kreecherlivesupstairs · 17/06/2010 07:56

Is she trying to run round a little wheel in the side of her bed at night?
Seriously, if this has only started since the introduction of olive oil, I think you've found your answer.

hippipotamiHasLost92lbs · 17/06/2010 08:06

I don't think it is the olive oil on it's own (hence why you do not detect eu du hamster when you smell the bottle) but in conjunction with her skin it becomes hamsterish...

Sooo, ditch the olive oil

3BreastsInMyShirt · 17/06/2010 08:11

are you possily pregnant? DD1 smelled like a wet dog when I was with DD2.

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stroppyshopper · 17/06/2010 21:18

Oh God I hope I am not pregnant.

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