Think that baby’s so cute you could eat it? Turns out you’re right.
It happens to everyone: You see a baby, and feel the fleeting desire to gobble up its little footsie-wootsies or nibble on its teensy earsy-wearseys. So you say something like: “You’re so adorable I could just eat you up” and then have at it, making “Cookie Monster noises” while taking imaginary chunks out of the tot’s cutesy-wootsy little handsy-wandseys.
And then, of course, you feel a little weird, but don’t worry: According to a study, that desire to metaphorically — but not actually, which is a totally different thing called CANNIBALISM — eat infants is tied to their smell.
I guess I know now where the location of my brain damage is, because this has never happened to me. But apparently wanting to eat a baby is normal, claim researchers in Dresden, Germany. Ultimately they believe, this trigger is meant to protect the baby and not actually to eat it.
They isolated baby smells from 2-week-old infants’ pajamas and asked 2 groups of 15 women who had given birth within the past 6 weeks or who had never given birth, to participate.
Scientists found that the smells triggered a response in both groups in an area of the brain that signifies reward.
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What can I say, I'm an Atheist.
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something wrong with my brain as well.
I'm not really a baby person, and have never wanted to "eat one up" or even stick their various body parts in my mouth.
Although I will admit that I do find (clean) baby smell pleasant. But I guess I was waiting in a different line when they passed out whatever bonding chemical goes in peoples' brains...
They really had to do a "study" 
who DON'T have that reaction?? The LAST thing I would ever want to do is take imaginary bites out of a baby. I look at babies and am a tiny bit repulsed - I find them smelly and annoying. 
