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Newborns Detects Odors

   By one or two days old, newborns can recognize odors. Breast fed babies will detect the smell of their mom's breast pad and the odors from her neck and underarms compared with similar odor from another mother.

   Researchers used a gauze pad, the one that women who breast fed use to absorb leaking milk and placed it on one side of the baby's face. On the other side of the face is another gauze pad worn by another woman. Babies turn more to the gauze pad from the mother.

   Studies in rabbit done at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, showed that newborn rabbit has learned the odor of the diet of the mother. The researchers even speculated that odor learning even occurred prenatally and that it can have a long term influence on later food choice.

 

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