A mother’s love for her baby may be based on smell
Yet most mothers not only cope with weeks and months of sleepless nights, but with the 24-hour routine of a new baby and don’t buckle under the pressure.
Maternal love has always been mooted as the reason for this Herculean strength, but a new study, from Nagasaki University in Japan, has claimed that the distinctive smell of a new baby may trigger the mother’s devotion during such a physically demanding time.
