Define "sweet" smell...

gunsofbrixton · January 2010

Every book and every person i have talked to has said amniotic fluid smells "sweet"...okay so define sweet...like a chocolatey smell or fruity... any help? i know i sound like an idiot, but "sweet" is a little broad dont you think?

1momma · January 2010

my childbirth class teacher, said it smells like very diluted urine. Mine didnt really have a smell I noticed, but my nose was really stuffed up.

gunsofbrixton · January 2010

Leah&Jack:
Ha! I've always wondered this but never thought to ask. I imagine fruity? I can't imagine chocolate.

lol me neither but i cant think of anything that would have an a sweet odor other than cocoa or fruit...lol

sleepingbeauty825 · January 2010

How weird would it be if it smelled like chocolate? I don't know either, I hope someone can answer this for you though!

Pesky · January 2010

Jumped here by wrong click but had to respond -- this "sweet-smelling" BS is why I sat around leaking amniotic fluid for a good hour and a half wondering if my fluid broke because it did not remotely smell sweet. Smelled like semen. God-awful, quite frankly, but probably because I was way more sensitive to smell. So you have a steady stream, small or large, or a giant gush, just go have it checked out regardless of the odor.

gunsofbrixton · January 2010

Pesky:
Jumped here by wrong click but had to respond -- this "sweet-smelling" BS is why I sat around leaking amniotic fluid for a good hour and a half wondering if my fluid broke because it did not remotely smell sweet. Smelled like semen. God-awful, quite frankly, but probably because I was way more sensitive to smell. So you have a steady stream, small or large, or a giant gush, just go have it checked out regardless of the odor.

smart thinking...i have been having a little more discharge than normal and it smells vaguely like urine so im assuming its nothing...i go to the doc tommorow so i will ask then what she thinks...

Elisha&Anthony · January 2010

never heard of it to smell sweet. My childbirth class teacher said it would smell kinda like the ocean and that it was a smell you would definitely be able to detect.

Mrs_D_in_KY · January 2010

Ditto pp - your water breaking will feel like a gush or large amounts of discharge coming out. I didn't notice a smell, because I just knew it was my water.

earthyaky · January 2010

childbirth itself smells sweet... not a "food" kind of sweet, but a more human or bodily fluid type of sweet. I was at one of my best friend's labpr when she had her son and had previously heard about this smell. I didn't know what to expect, and the sweet smell truly doesn't compare to anything, so can be difficult to describe. But it filled the room, especially when she was at the active labor/pushing stage. Now that I'm thinking about it, the smell of a newborn baby is a very diluted version of this sweet smell. I didn't know the amniotic fluid was supposed to smell sweet too.

Paradisemoon · January 2010

Ok so this is going to sound really strange but DH said when my water broke (It broke while I was pushing ) that it smelled slightly like garlic. I had a huge plate of spaghetti and garlic bread for dinner the night before. My doctor said the fluid smell and TASTE like what you've been eating. Even baby can taste the food you eat through the fluid.

MrsRebecca · January 2010

I always heard ammonia. But I don't know what ammonia smells like.

SapphyrEyes · January 2010

I had a c/s but on the idea of the sweet smell since DS didn't get the fluid squeezed out of him.... He literally did smell sweet, kind of like a mild simple syrup. I could smell him coming to me from the hallway. And the one day we had to supplement him with formula he smelled sour like spoiled milk to me. And that day was the worst we've had for diaper changes. But, I'm pretty sensitive to milk smells and get offended pretty easily with them so that could be why I thought him to be unpleasant that day.