Does Anyone Ever Really Eat Up a Baby?
I just did it yesterday, this adorable little round-cheeked, blue-eyed curly head poking up out of the blanket. "I could just eat you up!" How many times have we said that to a baby ? Well, it just might be in our genes. Of course we're not going to eat a baby. But what we mean is they'e so scrumptious and sweet, you want to do more than just hug or kiss them. And that feeling makes us , well, feel great, too. This reaction, which everyone has noticed or felt, could have biological underpinnings related to maternal functions, newswise.com reports. It may well, indeed, be in our brains. “The olfactory—thus non-verbal and non-visual—chemical signals for communication between mother and child are intense,” newswise.com quotes Johannes Frasnelli, a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Montreal’s Department of Psychology. “What we have shown for the first time is that the odor of newborns, which is part of these signals, activate...