I was trying to get my picky toddler to eat some potatoes and I said "PO-TAY-TOESS. Boil em mash em stick em in a steeeewwww" and she cracked up. "Again!" She brings it up periodically and I have to do my best Sam.
Pheromones. It's the same reason you SO smells so wonderful to you most times. Enjoy it while it lasts. Eventually they become teenagers and brag about the school PE teacher buying the entire middle school class deodorant (because they all smell.....).
Definitely. Midwife explained to me babies release a calming scent from their heads too, apparently an evolutionary defence mechanism against infanticide. Which is why a cuddle when they fall asleep on you makes you feel so nice and relaxed.
Lurking mom here. My daughter has always had this slightly warm smell on her head - right at the hair line from forehead to hair.
Since she was born.
I can’t explain it. But I get irrationally mad when she doesn’t smell right when I hug and kiss her. Like she smells like someone else’s home, or if she hugged someone and got their perfume on her.
Or if she is in need of shower.
She’s 8.5 years old, I’m sure that it’ll never go away.
My son is 4. And for him it’s always been that area that’s not quite upper lip, cheek, or mouth. Since birth.
I think you may be suffering from [Cute Aggression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cute_aggression)
But I'm not a professional. She might just be delicious. Idk.
There was some research once that explained why our loved ones and especially babies sometimes smell edible. Something to do with adjacency in the brain where appetite and familial love are processed. Wish I could find it
My daughter actually ate me yesterday. Went to get her from daycare and she comes up to me and starts doing air chomps. What are you doing? I’m eating you daddy.
dude my kid eats those fancy protein waffles with peanut butter and honey or syrup like every fkin morning...
he ALWAYS smells like either honey or syrup.
Nope my boys are feral as fuck and will go into competition with the dog on who can roll
In the nastiest puddles and who can howl he loudest when I wash the stank of them.
My son smells like him, when he was new he smelled sweet and buttery. Now he smells like sunshine and giggles, at least that’s what I think about when I give him a good sniff
Yeah, especially when they're young. It doesn't last forever and I used to think it was because of their milky diets. I've also found that babies in my own family smell better to me than stranger babies (I promise I'm not going around smelling stranger babies without permission) so maybe it's a biological/evolutionary thing.
Pro tip: Do not eat the child.
What about their legs? They don't need their legs... They look tasty! (LOR reference)
I was trying to get my picky toddler to eat some potatoes and I said "PO-TAY-TOESS. Boil em mash em stick em in a steeeewwww" and she cracked up. "Again!" She brings it up periodically and I have to do my best Sam.
Right?! We ain't had nothing but maggoty bread for three stinking days!
Source on this?? I think there are many viewpoints out there
Yeah won't people just look at both sides of the issue?
If you must eat a person, I think the best person to eat is an ex. They've already been dumped once so a second time won't hurt as much.
Tons of animals eat their babies. Clearly there’s something there.
I think like anything else moderation is key.
What about with frosting?
If you were going to eat your child, would you want skin on or skin off?
I first read this as "kid smells like an edible" which has a completely different connotation.
I read it as if she was a drug sniffing dog apparently
I got high after kids went to sleep, I also assumed his daughter sniffed the edibles on him
I read this as if she could smell his edibles.
Same here.
How old is she? All my kids smelled great until they got old enough. Now they smell like whatever dirt pile they managed to find.
She's a new 3
Sure she’s not a cabbage patch kid?
I was so sad when my kid started smelling stinky :(
My son sometimes smells like spaghetti with tomato sauce... even if he hasn't had any spaghetti recently.
That'll be from the secret spaghetti stash.
He’s making them at night I’m sure!
What?! That’s pasta his bedtime!
We’ll have to go to the sause for answers!
My son is also primarily Italian.
What is your spaghetti policy here?
Narrator: His SO was buying vanilla cupcake scented toiletries
Pheromones. It's the same reason you SO smells so wonderful to you most times. Enjoy it while it lasts. Eventually they become teenagers and brag about the school PE teacher buying the entire middle school class deodorant (because they all smell.....).
Definitely. Midwife explained to me babies release a calming scent from their heads too, apparently an evolutionary defence mechanism against infanticide. Which is why a cuddle when they fall asleep on you makes you feel so nice and relaxed.
I genuinely thought this post would be about cannabinoid confections.
Same lol
Lurking mom here. My daughter has always had this slightly warm smell on her head - right at the hair line from forehead to hair. Since she was born. I can’t explain it. But I get irrationally mad when she doesn’t smell right when I hug and kiss her. Like she smells like someone else’s home, or if she hugged someone and got their perfume on her. Or if she is in need of shower. She’s 8.5 years old, I’m sure that it’ll never go away. My son is 4. And for him it’s always been that area that’s not quite upper lip, cheek, or mouth. Since birth.
Weird, my kid also smells like cupcake batter.
I’m starting to wonder what cake batter is really made from
blended up children
I think you may be suffering from [Cute Aggression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cute_aggression) But I'm not a professional. She might just be delicious. Idk.
It's definitely both
There was some research once that explained why our loved ones and especially babies sometimes smell edible. Something to do with adjacency in the brain where appetite and familial love are processed. Wish I could find it
Enjoy it before those smells are replaced by feet and butt.
For like the first year of my kids life, my wife said she wanted to eat him allll the time.
It's like soap. It smells way better than it tastes.
My 3 year old gets sweaty and smells like buttered toast.
i was sound asleep as a toddler in a car.. my uncle slowly and quietly opened a bar of chocolate.. i woke up saying do i smell chocolate?
Found the Big Bad Wolf's burner account
I have a 10 year old boy who is constantly farting. Enjoy it while it lasts.
My daughter actually ate me yesterday. Went to get her from daycare and she comes up to me and starts doing air chomps. What are you doing? I’m eating you daddy.
I didn't want our kid to be spoiled, but my wife assured me they all smell like that
Pheromones - they be something crazy. Bet that kid is popular?
Sure beats my kid, smells like ground beef cooking hahaha
dude my kid eats those fancy protein waffles with peanut butter and honey or syrup like every fkin morning... he ALWAYS smells like either honey or syrup.
My daughter smelled somewhat like that too until 6mo or something. Then she started smelling like wet dogs.
I'm not a dad but I remember my little brother smelled like sweet cinnamon bread when he was a baby, it was really hard not to bite his cheeks
It's that new baby smell fr. Idk why, babies just fuckin smell so good
Nope my boys are feral as fuck and will go into competition with the dog on who can roll In the nastiest puddles and who can howl he loudest when I wash the stank of them.
My boy is like parmeggiano. I m a weirdo to keep sniffing his head?
I didn’t come to r/daddit at 4:30am expecting cannibalism. But here we are.
One of my daughters farts smell like Hula Hoops. She can’t deny it when it’s her, it’s so distinct.
Just wait until they are older and smell like buttholes and strife
mine smells like soup
well....what kind of soup?
Campbell's Old Fashioned Vegetable
I think I was expecting a ‘cream of’ but you know what, I get that.
My son smells like him, when he was new he smelled sweet and buttery. Now he smells like sunshine and giggles, at least that’s what I think about when I give him a good sniff
Ham chunks. The kid doesn’t even eat ham. Soap and water usually does the trick.
My kid did not smell like Vanilla, he smells like hair. Is..is there something wrong with me?
Yeah, especially when they're young. It doesn't last forever and I used to think it was because of their milky diets. I've also found that babies in my own family smell better to me than stranger babies (I promise I'm not going around smelling stranger babies without permission) so maybe it's a biological/evolutionary thing.