One solution is for mothers to «colonize» the infant
with vaginal flora (hers or a healthy medically screened donor) at birth, should vaginal delivery not occur.
Not exact matches
It's so that the next time a woman is offered a c - section because her ignorant obstetrician is going on holidays and needs to get the baby out before he leaves, the woman can be empowered
with the knowledge that because it is unnecessary and because
vaginal birth will expose her baby to her own
flora which is essential for her baby's health, then this unnecessary c - section is not the best thing for her child.
Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of language, when, faced
with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study
with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between
vaginal and amniotic
flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article
with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.
It's a potent antiseptic and does disrupt the
vaginal flora, which can hopefully be restored
with vaginal probiotics; but it doesn't travel through the body and cross over to the baby like the IV antibiotics do.
Most neonatal sepsis is due to infection
with the mother's
vaginal flora.
Vaginal birth, rubbing in the stuff babies are born
with on their skin, breastfeeding, cosleeping, wearing your baby... all contribute to lots of gut
flora growth.
Since the
vaginal system is populated
with bacteria, women are more susceptible to urinary tract and yeast infections than men because of the disruption in the
vaginal flora.
Vaginal delivery and nursing inoculate the baby
with the normal
flora.
It's actually quite fascinating that weeks leading up to birth, the
flora in the
vaginal canal begin to change and flourish, getting ready to be shared
with baby as he / she is being born.
Dr. Wilson discusses the immune modulating effects of inoculation
with the mother's
vaginal flora during delivery.