Your Baby’s Smile acts Like a Drug
Did you know your baby’s smile actually act like a drug? According to reports this is true and if you really think about it, this is something we knew all along. Put a smiling baby in front of his mother after she’s had a rough day or even been crying and they will slowly get a smile on their own face, if not laugh. This is one researched item I really believe, after all what mom doesn’t get a natural giddy feeling when she looks at her own little baby as he/she looks into their eyes and smiles. It doesn’t matter if he/she has teeth, no teeth or just one, it just takes those little cheeks to move upward to make our hearts flutter.
From WebMD:
Researchers found that when the mothers saw happy images of their own baby, activation increased in areas of the brain associated with reward and the neurotransmitter dopamine compared with seeing images of other babies.
“These are areas that have been activated in other experiments associated with drug addiction,” says Strathearn. “It may be that seeing your own baby’s smiling face is like a ‘natural high.’”
Overall, the mothers’ brains responded much more strongly to their own infants than to others, but researchers found the strength of that natural-high reaction depended on the baby’s facial expression.
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1 opinion for Your Baby’s Smile acts Like a Drug
yummy mummy
Jul 15, 2008 at 3:18 pm
As a new mom and recovered drug addict I completely agree with this article. I feel such a rush when my little boy smiles. It is a natural high, better than any drug I have ever taken! While researching on the internet I’ve found a lot of helpful resources about drug addiction and recovery on http://www.addictionca.com
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