Your baby's tiny taste buds are mature and the sweet
taste of the amniotic fluid encourages swallowing.
As the baby pushes up on her little elbows, sucks on her hand to get
the taste of amniotic fluid, a property of which is similar to one secreted by the breast, she uses smell and taste as an additional guide to the nipple.
When the mom eats something sweet,
the taste of amniotic fluid changes: the child likes it and swallows it more often.
Not exact matches
Their research suggests that
taste and olfactory systems operate in utero within the
amniotic fluid and that breast milk serves as a sort
of flavor bridge to the time
of weaning.
Baby's sense
of taste is also becoming more sensitive and baby will react to strong
tastes from spicier foods you eat, which flavor the
amniotic fluid.
As your baby
tastes the
amniotic fluid, he has his first experience
of various flavors.
Your baby can detect odours that pass through into the womb and dissolve in the
amniotic fluid, but they do this using the sense
of taste rather than smell.
The fetus swallows more
of the
amniotic fluid in different
taste categories so that they are prepared to consume the first feed via breastfeeding.
Certain foods have an effect on
amniotic fluid's flavor and this is nature's way
of preparing your baby for the
taste bud stimulation they'll get in the world.
According to Julie Mennella
of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, «
Amniotic fluid is a complex «first food» that contains chemicals that have both
tastes and smells.»
As a byproduct from the intake
of amniotic fluid comes your baby's first experiences with
taste.
The flavors
of those veggies may actually shape your baby's
taste preferences via the
amniotic fluid, and make your baby more likely to accept these healthy foods when they are introduced later in infancy.