Supporting your newborn’s health: Intestinal colonization after elective cesarean section

This month we recognize World Microbiome Day with information to help new parents learn about their baby’s developing bacteria colonization and how interventions in the first 1,000 days of life may affect their child’s risk of developing preventable autoimmune conditions. As I have discussed in a previous blog, the microbiome — the varied and teeming colonies of gut bacteria inside of us — is greatly influenced from the time of our conception until the second year of life, and the development and colonization of the microbiome during the first 1,000 days of life can profoundly affect our health during infancy through adulthood. Major microbiome colonization begins with delivery Each method of delivery — vaginal birth or delivery by cesarean section — produces a different colonization pattern. The nature of

from https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/supporting-your-newborns-health-intestinal-colonization-after-elective-cesarean-section-2019070517262

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