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Shelley Is Convinced That Her Two-Week-Old Baby Can Smell the Difference

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Shelley is convinced that her two-week-old baby can smell the difference between her breast milk and the breast milk she received from a donor.Her husband thinks she has a vivid imagination because there is no way a newborn baby could detect the difference.What does research evidence suggest?


A) Shelley's husband is right.Two-week-old infants have no sense of smell.
B) Shelley's husband is right.Two-week-old infants can smell very strong smells,but they can't make fine discriminations,such as between two different mother's breast milk.
C) Shelley is right.Two-week-old infants can identify the smell of their mother's breast milk.
D) Shelley's baby may be able to identify the taste,but not the smell of her mother's breast milk.

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