Research has found that
the vaginal microbiome changes during pregnancy and the postpartum period.
Not exact matches
Because there's significant
microbiome variation within C - section and
vaginal birth groups, a small sample size makes it especially difficult to catch enduring
microbiome changes.
It's currently a challenge to do this kind of microbial redesign — antibiotics reduce microbial burden but fail to induce major
changes in bacterial composition, and from fecal transplant studies in the gut we know that bacterial populations return to a baseline population even after a major shift — so more work is needed to attempt a durable
change in the
vaginal microbiome.
We started thinking about the environmental factors, such as stress, that could
change the
vaginal microbiome and wondering if that would have an impact on our model of brain development.