How old is my baby niece? Frankly, i have absolutely no idea, though i suspect that she is around one year old. For her, rather than tracking her age in years or months, i think of her in stages. She's now in the crawl-around-and-wobbly-stand-by-holding-onto-something-for-support stage. Though she isn't very mindful about what she holds as support, which includes stools that can fall and in one case, my cousin's hair. Not that the hair was that long or the person was that short, but he was lying there on the floor offering his head as some toy.
I have learned of two syllables of her um.. speech which kind of mean different things. The first one goes like... I have no idea what combination of letters could recreate the sound.. it goes something like mmmum. And sometimes she does this mmmum mmmum mmmum repetitively. I think it means she was displeased or something. Or so i overheard from her mum saying.
The other syllable sound somewhat like hehn which we'll hear when she is kind of happy. And then i proclaimed to my cousins saying that she has managed to learn the word hand.
Thus far i've only carried her once and i've quickly passed the feisty bundle back for fear of dropping her. I remember my poly project lecturer, Jasmine, saying something about the baby smell. Of which i have never been able to single out what exactly a baby smells like. Was it powder? vomit? or something else all together.
There was once when everyone was eating cups of ice-cream, and the little budle also wanted to have some, my auntie fed her two spoons of plain water and that kind of managed to settle her into quietness.
Oh well.. so much for now.
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The "baby smell" that your lecturer mentioned is a special baby smell that lasts only as long as the baby is still on a diet of nothing but milk. Once the baby starts taking solids (like porridge etc), the smell begins to fade.
ReplyDeleteThe smell is ... indescribable, except that it is beautiful. I spent a great amount of time sniffing my children when they were at that age. :)
Actually, it was like ... an animal instinct. Many mammals with new babies have an irresistible impulse to keep sniffing their babies. Part of the bonding process.
ReplyDeleteThink it happens in humans too. :P
Oh, and they say that breastfed babies smell better than formula-milk-fed babies. I wouldn't know, because both my kids were breastfed.
Now that you mentioned it, i've got to ask around to find out what she is having for meals.. Um.. as in milk or porridge. Think it'll be kind of akward to ask my cousin if she breast feeds her child..
ReplyDeleteAnyway, gotta spend more time to sniff the little one, before the baby linger fades away.
Oh, by the time your niece starts to walk, she would have lost the baby smell. Because a few months before that, she would have started on solids.
ReplyDeleteYou'll have to wait for another new baby to smell.