Attachment Parenting

I Have an Insatiable Drive to Touch DS With...

...the tip of my nose. It's like a pull. My nose feels...cold? frustrated?...if DS's head is close and I don't press the tip of it into his hair. Anyone else? I would never have thought this had the potential to be a normal (and, therefore, publicly discussable) phenomenon until I ran into my midwife at Starbucks. She nuzzled her face into DS's hair and said "I just have to rub their hair with the tip of my nose." OK...so are Dr. Leslie and I the only loonies or are there more out there?
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  • this made me lol :)

    not something i do, but sounds cute

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  • I can't help but nibble on my lo's ears! Dh thinks I am crazy.
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  • I am pretty sure, but could be making this up, that babies secrete pheromones from the top of their head. I notice that when my friends/family hold LO, they inhale the top of her head and I swear I see them visibly relax.

    I also smell her head to help me sleep at night. That sounds weird now that I've typed it out, but I'm pretty sure it's hormonal.

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    I am pretty sure, but could be making this up, that babies secrete pheromones from the top of their head. I notice that when my friends/family hold LO, they inhale the top of her head and I swear I see them visibly relax.

    I also smell her head to help me sleep at night. That sounds weird now that I've typed it out, but I'm pretty sure it's hormonal.

    That makes sense! Thanks for helping me feel sane :)
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  • imagerickandcaitlin:
    I can't help but nibble on my lo's ears! Dh thinks I am crazy.
    Ha. Yeah. I munch on his neck/shoulder area.
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  • I saw an article on this once, but I don't know where.  I think a lot of mother/baby animals do this.  We're built that way.  It's sweet.
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  • Not an academic source, but:

    "Bonding experts say that babies' heads give off pheromones, and when we inhale them, we fall in love, and begin to feel protective."

    https://www.ahaparenting.com/ages-stages/newborns/Help-Sibling-Child-Adjust-New-Baby

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  • imageshaindelr:

    Not an academic source, but:

    "Bonding experts say that babies' heads give off pheromones, and when we inhale them, we fall in love, and begin to feel protective."

    https://www.ahaparenting.com/ages-stages/newborns/Help-Sibling-Child-Adjust-New-Baby

    Aww that makes sence!
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  • I have to sniff baby heads...mine and others! It feels a bit compulsory to me as well, so I'm crazy along with you! ;) Sniffing always involves touching with my nose. It makes me so happy but with other LOs I always worry I'm being presumptous!
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  • I do this all the time too!  We are good friends with our neighbors & walk across the street to visit with them quite a bit.  Whenever I'm over there with DD the husband always has to come over and smell her hair, he makes no bones about it.  I think it's really kinda funny & sweet though.
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  • I never thought of it as a nose thing, but I felt a compulsion to touch my cheek to their heads - their hair, cheek, forehead.
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  • Oh, I'm a total head-face-ears-and-neck sniffer! Love it love it love it... I have a really good sense of smell so scents have special meaning to me.

    And I do the combing of her hair with the tip of my nose too... and with my chin... and with my cheek... lol   She just makes me silly with tenderness! The world turns pink when she smiles - I don't even like pink, in fact, I hate pink, but I love it when it irradiates from her!

    So yeah, loonie all the way...

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  • Oh, and I love the pic in your siggy. Crazy bellydancing fan here! It has been a while and still can't go back to my classes (where's all that time gone?), but I can't go past a mirror without dancing for a bit...

    Are you a dancer too? Or just a spy? 

    =)

     

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  • Wow that all makes so much sense.  I always am smelling LO's head and kissing his forehead.
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  • When my DD was little I loved being nose to nose with her, smelling her and looking at her really closely knowing she was taking in all the features of my face too. And she LOVED having her neck kissed! I also have a major compulsion for kissing all babies on the temples. My Mom does it too and I think I must remember it from being a child because I love when my husband kisses my temples too. :) Ah, I miss the baby smell.
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