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A pilot study on this was published pretty recently with some success in terms of passing the mother's microbiome on to the infant, though that's still a long w
by flurie 10y ago
A pilot study on this was published pretty recently with some success in terms of passing the mother's microbiome on to the infant, though that's still a long way off from determining the benefits.
http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v22/n3/full/nm.4039.html http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v22/n3/full/nm.4039.html
- downeveryroad 10y agoThanks for sharing this. Our firstborn was an unscheduled c-section and my wife is now pregnant with our second child. We will likely schedule a c-section this time and I want to do whatever I can to help create a healthy gut microbiome at birth.