Baby Gut Study Finds Bacteria Different After C-Section Births

Baby Gut Study Finds Bacteria Different After C-Section Births
Babies inherit a wealth of beneficial microbes from their mother during natural childbirth. Pixabay
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LONDON—A huge study of babies’ stool samples has found key differences between infants born vaginally and those born via cesarean section, offering clues about the development of the human immune system, researchers said on Sept. 18, 2019.

Vaginally born babies got most of their gut bacteria from their mother, but C-section babies didn’t and had more bacteria linked to the hospital around them, the study found.