People imagine some special mechanism of transfer, but the reality is that we get bacteria from inside and outside of our bodies all over stuff, all the time, a

People imagine some special mechanism of transfer, but the reality is that we get bacteria from inside and outside of our bodies all over stuff, all the time, and we’re crawling with it. The babies would be introduced to GI tract flora pretty much immediately even if you tried to prevent it (unless you prevent it with antibiotics of course).