Slightly related anecdote: one of my kids was born with a full head of hair. The hair was the softest thing I've ever interacted with in my entire life. We also have black cat with silky fur that usually feels soft. When the baby came home, the cat's fur might as well have been sandpaper. It took weeks for us to feel the cat's fur as his normal self.

The thing here is that babies have this ethereal and indescribable effect on the people around them which postmodernist science is now trying understand.