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Human Newborns Prefer Human Milk: Conspecific Milk Odor Is Attractive Without Postnatal Exposure
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Marlier, Luc; Schaal, Benoist – Child Development, 2005
Behavioral responses of 3- to 4-day-old newborns to the odors of various human milk (HM) and formula milk (FM) were examined in paired-choice tests. When both stimuli were nonfamiliar, breast-fed, as well as bottle-fed, infants oriented their head and mouthed more vigorously to HM than to FM. When breast-fed infants were exposed to nonfamiliar HM…
Descriptors: Neonates, Discrimination Learning, Infant Behavior, Nutrition