Tag: babies

The smell of babies

“Babies smell good.”  I’ve heard more than one person say that over the years, usually a woman, and I’ve always thought that person was, perhaps, just a little strange.  The babies I’ve known–always from a distance–didn’t smell like much of anything, and when they did, it was a signal to change their diapers. But since …

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Multiple births

In 1934, an Ontario farmer asked his local newspaper if a birth announcement for five babies born at once would cost the same as a birth announcement for a single baby. A local reporter filed a wire story about the farmer’s suddenly expanded family, and almost overnight, the Dionne quintuplets became media celebrities–to the point …

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