This is the incredible feeling of physical, visceral love for one's child. This stretches beyond the sweet baby smell and the cute baby toes into the territory of romance. There is a sense in which this is almost literally true for new parents.
Babies are infinitely, excitingly, actually delicious.
Parents kiss their babies, suck on them, nibble them. They squeeze them and inhale them like ripe fruit. While there is no doubt that our babies are lucious, and our relationships with them extremely sensual, we parents often feel that as our children grow, so should the physical distance between us. This may start even when our children are still infants. The association of physical distance and maturity is inescapable in our society.