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Also found in rotten horse meat and insect cadavers and that's enough scrolling pubmed for me today. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34653803/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34738202/
Water is another chemical found in babies, rotten horse meat, and insect cadavers. I wouldn't read too much into it.
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For serious? The top of my kids heads smelled intoxicating for the first 6-9 months. There is still a special scent but not quite the same. And I smell it on other babies, too. It’s like smelling breast milk, but emanating from the Fontainelle
Probably TMI, but I have a very good sense of smell. I once figured out my coworker was pregnant because she basically smelled the same as a baby's fontanelle (I kept this to myself, I'm not insane).
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For serious? The top of my kids heads smelled intoxicating for the first 6-9 months. There is still a special scent but not quite the same. And I smell it on other babies, too. It’s like smelling breast milk, but emanating from the Fontainelle
Probably TMI, but I have a very good sense of smell. I once figured out my coworker was pregnant because she basically smelled the same as a baby's fontanelle (I kept this to myself, I'm not insane).
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Probably TMI, but I have a very good sense of smell. I once figured out my coworker was pregnant because she basically smelled the same as a baby's fontanelle (I kept this to myself, I'm not insane).
Could this be related to when pregnant people are referred to as "beaming" or whatever the phrase was?
As a teen, I once got heckled by some coworkers. "Wow, are you pregnant? Your face is radiating!" I had accidentally put on too much oily sunscreen that day. I'm a cis male with a beard.
I don’t know if this counts as a pheromone, but babies definitely emit _something_. As a recent father, I have had numerous people remark on how wonderful babies smell after smelling my child. I can’t smell anything. People who can smell this particular smell seem very perplexed that I can’t smell it.
Babies are funny, my 7 month old is only making noises while breathing in. I wish more of our language had breathing-in based sounds, it could double our information transfer rate!
There is something magical about being a father. I remember a scene in the sitcom Friends, where Chandler mumbles cute words after seeing emma. I feel exactly the same whenever I see my son. And he is 5 years old now. So grown up and all. HN successfully attenuated the magic, by floating out these articles which reduce the magic to chemical factors. PS - On a lighter note.
I never understood how explaining something makes its "magic" go away. If anything, it usually made me appreciate it more.
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Any cisgender women that like to check out babies want to chime in? Maybe additional ciswomen that talk with their other cis women friends who like to check out babies?
Why bring up cis women specifically? If this response/behavior is in fact real (which I have many doubts on), you could well theorize that it is related to female hormones, which transwomen who have transitioned have as well.
the babies are the ones emitting the chemicals, we would just need them to bind to us to trigger any number of processes.
we can have chromosomal sexual dimorphism on the olfactory glands, within our lungs, on our skin, somewhere deeper in the pipeline, different gut microbes, you name it.
even if we desired trans women to have these features merged in retroactively, we still need to study the cis women created via selective pressures to understand what exactly the features are
this requires natural born females responding about their experience, so it would be counterproductive for trends to get in the way of choosing the accurate sample population