Eating a tiny bit of mom’s poop could give C-section babies an immune ‘primer’

Published on October 2, 2020

Newborns’ guts are blank slates: Babies born vaginally get microbes from their mother’s perineum (the area around the vulva and anus), and those born by C-section get them from mom’s skin. Within just a few hours, the differences are stark. Science

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