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Loving Touches

Since your baby has been born, I’m sure you’ve felt his or her fingers wrap on yours while they are nursing. You’ve lovingly stroked a finger down their silky cheek. The love you feel begins to swell to greater proportions as you gaze at them and expands to fill the whole of your being when you lift that precious baby into your arms. You feel like you will burst from the pride, the love and the admiration that fills you. You stroke their head, you almost can’t help yourself, and you reach out to touch them even when they are … Continue reading →

The Sense of Taste

As we discussed earlier in Your Toddler’s Sense of Smell, taste is somewhat less than refined when your baby is born. Their taste buds are still developing and they are resistant to changes – even those of the sweet kind until they are ready. You’ll notice a reticence in tasting some foods when their sense of smell begins expanding and the same can be said for their sense of taste. Toddlers are, by their very nature, finicky. One good rule of thumb to get into where eating and new tastes are concerned is to let them sample flavors. Never fix … Continue reading →

Your Toddler’s Sense of Smell

Your toddler’s nose is nowhere near as discerning as yours is. It’s important to remember that our senses are heightened after pregnancy. The scent of a dirty diaper is pretty powerful to us, but not so much to our kids. Our body odor doesn’t offend them either – that’s why they’ll snuggle up to you even when you haven’t had a chance to shower all day and you may think you stink, but your child doesn’t notice. This lack of acuity and sensitivity in their sense of smell is part of the reason why your toddler cannot distinguish between safe … Continue reading →

Stop & Smell the Roses

Too often, as adults, we take the world and our perceptions of it for granted. We accept that we smell certain things when we go to different places. We see different things in different places and we hear different things in different places. We are so used to this plethora of sights, sounds, smells, touches and sensations that we learn to filter them. So while a part of your brain may acknowledge the fresh scent of the roses in your garden, you may not just stop and smell them – but your toddler will. Your toddler is still acclimating to … Continue reading →