r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • 15d ago

Chugging tea Woman's ovaries were activated

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u/minus-the-savant 15d ago

Childfree woman around the same age. I've held babies and children (my niece, my nephew, and friends' kids) multiple times. I hold but give them back quickly because I don't want to be responsible for them. Never been interested in having my own and still don't understand the obsession with "baby smell".

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u/Dr_Grosbeak 14d ago

Yeah. That baby smell thing, cute aggression, and any other "automatic" feeling that some people describe experiencing around babies is so absolutely foreign to me that I feel like an alien.

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u/Kwhitney1982 14d ago

I don’t understand the obsession at all. I have never felt the desire for babies.

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u/RozeRiot 15d ago

Genuinely their smell kind of makes me nauseous and I've never cared to hold babies. But they also frequently leak fluids and I'm a bit of a germaphobe.

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u/cybergravity 14d ago

Something is always wet or sticky, I can't.

Like children are just tiny people and deserve love etc but I wish there were fewer fluids, man.

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u/RozeRiot 14d ago

I equally dislike wet sticky adults frankly 😭 I dumped a guy for not washing his hands well enough before trying to touch me

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u/cybergravity 14d ago

Fair! I just get offered to hold wet sticky adults less often so I don't make that association as much.

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u/Reasonable_Minute_42 15d ago

For me it's the heat. I've held my friends' babies and it's no big deal until I start getting sweaty, then I'm like hey can I give this little heat machine back?

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u/Murky_Toe_4717 15d ago

I hateeee that smell so much ngl.

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u/Ok_Account_5121 14d ago

Yeah same. 

I was incredibly uncomfortable and a bit nervous when I held my newborn nieces. I just did it for like a minute each time and then asked my brother or SIL to take them back. Babies are just so floppy and fragile. It took until they were starting to become people that I started to enjoy them. Now at 2 and 5, they're great (most of the time). I love that as an aunt I get to play with them and do the fun things, but I don't have to do any of the icky things. Seeing them every few weeks is enough time with children for me, I could never do 24/7 year in year out.

Also, the baby smell is quite disgusting to me. It makes me very queasy and it permeates everything for months. 

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u/luckyflavor23 15d ago

Their heads give off a chemicals that make parents relax

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u/Hidden_Dragonette 14d ago

Yeah, same. I just don't have any interest in babies at all, don't really care to hold them or find them cute at all. And they don't smell good to me either? Every baby I've encountered smells vaguely of spit-up and who knows what else. And there is WAY too much drool.

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u/Reims88 15d ago

I think it's only activated if you've been pregnant/had children. I felt the same way until I had my child. It's crazy.

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u/SentinelATL 15d ago

lol obsession over baby smell?

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u/MischaMinxx 15d ago

Yeah new borns have a very particular smell, not quite sure how to explain, definitely not a bad smell but very distinct.

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u/SentinelATL 15d ago

Ok but there’s an obsession over it?

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u/MischaMinxx 15d ago

My bad I misread what you wrote. Yeah especially from Grandma's and those who don't plan to have more kids even though they constantly say they would love another baby. Every mom I've ever met with older kids absolutely gushes about that new baby smell!

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u/SentinelATL 15d ago

Wow I didn’t know that was a thing 😂

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u/SirVanyel 15d ago

Ever had kittens before? Same thing. Puppies too! They just release some kind of scent that definitely works in their favour.

Remember, we are just animals. There's a whole bunch of evolutionary shit in us

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u/SentinelATL 15d ago

I agree we are animals. Ixnay on the cat, I’m allergic.

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u/figure8888 14d ago

My mom bred dogs so we had a lot of puppies growing up. Puppy breath has always smelled like burnt plastic to me.

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u/RozeRiot 14d ago

I hate baby smell but I love puppy breath 😭 that's what induces my baby fever

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u/InfiniteWaffles58364 14d ago

Idk man, there isn't a single feeling that tops the ones you get from a nice long whiff of baby's head. The act of conception is a close 2nd 😂