# MAN I love that new baby smell! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 28, 2000, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-love-that-new-baby-smell/27224 "2000-07-28T15:44:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-love-that-new-baby-smell/27224/1 "2000-07-28T15:44:21Z")
is it true newborn babies don’t have gas, and they’re nimbus doesn’t stink, until they get intestinal fauna? ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-love-that-new-baby-smell/27224/2 "2000-07-28T15:46:58Z")
i think you guys know what i meant to type. their’s no shame in being human. ---
**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-love-that-new-baby-smell/27224/3 "2000-07-28T15:51:34Z")
It won’t stink as long as they’re breast feeding. Go to Formula and, buddy, you’re in for a real treat. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-love-that-new-baby-smell/27224/4 "2000-07-28T15:55:50Z")
New babies come packed with Meconium. This sounds like a new element out of Flash Gordon, but it’s really the Cosmolene the human digestive system comes packed in. It’s thick and tarry. I don’t recall the smell, but I don’t think it’s odorless. I think too many new parents are carried away by the Wonder of it All and have selective memories. Considering that flatus seems to be “individualized”, you can’t blame it all on intestinal fauna. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-love-that-new-baby-smell/27224/5 "2000-07-28T15:58:49Z")
My son is 8 days old. Last night, he cut one so nasty that it woke me up. I officially do NOT like that new baby smell. ---
**Author:** ![MadHatter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MadHatter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadHatter)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-love-that-new-baby-smell/27224/6 "2000-07-28T16:15:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jb\_farley \* > \*\*MAN I love that new baby smell! \*\* Apparently thats a good pick up line amongst paedophiles ---
**Author:** ![Phobos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Phobos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phobos)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-love-that-new-baby-smell/27224/7 "2000-07-28T17:17:02Z")
for the most part (occasional exceptions), breast-fed infants’ poops don’t smell that bad at all. but once they start eating solid food…watch out. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-love-that-new-baby-smell/27224/8 "2000-07-28T17:30:54Z")
I think you guys are confusing the fact that little girls do not stink or pass gas… …because they do not get their assholes until they’re married. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-love-that-new-baby-smell/27224/9 "2000-07-28T18:59:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jesuslynch \* > \*\*It won’t stink as long as they’re breast feeding. Go to Formula and, buddy, you’re in for a real treat. \*\* Not in my experience. I have a lovely 4-month-old daughter, and most times I can’t smell but a slight “poopy” odor when she has a BM. But when it’s a large movement, boy! Look out! **Further warning to those who change diapers:** Don’t feed kids curry! My wife and I were watching her godson one weekend. At the mall, my wife bought a curry chicken salad, which had grapes. She offered him the grapes, still covered in curry sauce. He loved them. The next day, she had to work for a few hours, so I watched him at our apartment. When it came time to change his diaper: WOW! That was an A1 powerful atomic stink! Not thinking, I disposed of it in our kitchen trash. I later picked her up from work. As we got off the elevator (100 ft. from our place), she wondered what that awful smell was. I sniffed and IDed that it was little J’s curry diaper. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-love-that-new-baby-smell/27224/10 "2000-07-28T19:11:59Z")
Yet another new parent heard from. My daughter Kate (12 weeks old yesterday!) is breast fed and she’s not nuclear at all. Not like our damn dogs who practice chemical warfare against us all night long. Kates poops are very lightly odored. Though I’ve heard that things change in a hurry when they move to formula or solid food.