«If you expose a baby to [the] vaginal fluids of his or her mom, bacteria pick up in different places and bloom,» Dominguez - Bello says. (sciencemag.org)
And even though the scientific jury's still out on whether this is a good idea, some parents have been wiping their C - section babies down with vaginal fluid in the hopes that their newborns might get some of those microbial benefits, Laura Sanders reported earlier this yearover at the Growth Curve blog. (sciencenews.org)
Two further factors which clinicians normally consider are the length of cervix and levels of a biomarker found in vaginal fluid known as fetal fibronectin. (sciencedaily.com)