Okay, I know...odd title right?
Well here is the thing, I am hoping some of you fellow adoptive mamas can help me out. Pul-eeze tell me why my son is constantly sniffing me! Tell me he is normal and this is just something everyone goes through? Honestly, he is always grabbing my arm and sniffing me. Saying "you smell good mama" It is so ODD! I dont know if he just likes my perfume, bodywash or what. I could understand it once a day maybe, but it is All. Day. Long.
I love him dearly, but am beginning to think he has a olfactory issue. What do ya'll think? Any advice?
Sincerly,
The Over-Sniffed Mama
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- HOME!! 9/6/09
- Forever Family Day 8/24/2009!!!!
- Travel Approval (TA) 7/29/09
- Article 5 signed???
- I800 Cabled to Guangzhou 6/16/2009
- I800 approval 6/5/2009
- Letter Of Acceptance (LOA) from China 5/21/2009 WOO HOO!!! (91 days)
- Log in date -the date China logs us into the system(LID) 2/19/09!!!
- Dossier to China (DTC) 2/3/2009!!!
- I800A APPROVAL 12/31/2008
- Apporintment At Immigration in Indianapolis for fingerprinting..NOV 13, 2008.
- Logged into NBC October 22 2008
- I800A Recieved at lock box October 14th 2008
- sent in I800A to Chicago Lock Box October 10 2008
- Homestudy appt 8/25/2008...report finished 9/29/2008!!
- Prior Authorization to Adopt recieved from china (PA) Sept 23, 2008
- Sent In Letter Of Intent to agency to send to China (LOI) 7/30/2008
- Accepted Referral 7/21/2008
- Submitted medical sheet and recieved referral for Hua Yong Yang 7/10/2008
- Informational Meeting 7/8/2008
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Totally normal. DD#1 is a sniffer too. She smells everything, good or bad. She is just very sensory oriented.
She did grow out of it a little. She still comments on smells more than other children but she doesn't need to sniff me all the time now.
Paige is an olfactory child. She doesn't smell me, but she comments all the time on smells (ie in the craft store the other she announces outloud that "this stores stinks!"). She notices smells that no one else does.
Having some sensory integration experience, you might want to make a point to let him smell things as you go, to help his "need for this sensory input" and then he might decrease his 'sniffing' of you. Like, if you are cooking, call him in to smell taco seasoning, cayenne pepper, vanilla, candles or when you go out to stores. Think of strong input smells.
My 5-year-old son loves smelling things (especially candles at stores), but more than that, he likes to "feel" things with his upper lip. He has some "sensory processing" issues (didn't like getting his hands in paint, food, sand and still struggles with food textures, among other things), and I believe that he gains comfort from his "nuzzling" as I call it. Being as he's a mama's boy, he nuzzles me (usually my stomach when I pick him up from preschool as that's at face height for him). He loves to nuzzle the front of my shoulders, and he nuzzles his stuffed bear constantly when he's tired.
Does your son enjoy feeling lots of textures? I can't remember if you've mentioned anything like that. I'm not trying to alarm you; he just might be into smells (and/or other senses) a lot, his way of experiencing the world. Also, he's still getting used to "American" smells, I bet.
Hope this helps reassure you. He's probably no more crazy than the rest of us. (I have a favorite pillow - texture - that I took to China when my sister adopted her 2nd girl!)
I have had that happen with my kids on occasion also--but not all day long.
My one daughter has a stronger sense of smell and she use to comment all the time how things would stink! As a teenager she would get headaches from the perfume pages in magazines and couldn't go into stores that had strong fragrances.
It is better now that she is an adult.
Thanks for "grandparent" names...only a good Mom could keep them straight:)
Thanks for your comments ladies! I will try out some of the suggestions. He is not overly interested in textures at all...Really, it is just the sniffing...and for the most part just of me. I am thikin that some of the sensory intergration may help! It has been a recent (the last month) development, so maybe it is something he will out grow as well. One can only hope right???
Normal! Both our sons were/are sniffers! In Kaz., I noticed they always did the "sniff kiss" and our son from Kaz. would do this when we first got him. Also, our newest addition (4 yrs and came home less than 2 wks ago) is definitely a sniffer of everything including his mama!
He's memorizing you, sticking you deep into his memories. Think of all the different scents that bring back memories for you. When your son is older, he'll catch a whiff of perfume or soap, and he'll think of you. Isn't that cool?! :0)
Seriously, my daughter likes to take a deep whiff of my coat when I'm going out or my neck when I hug her. It's not an all the time thing for her, but she's eight and at a different developmental stage. It began several months after she joined our family and continues. She also loves to touch my hair...which is a much-younger-kid thing, but her social age is quite young.
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