It made sense to me when I heard Cyndi Omeara talk about gut health and the start up of our biome through labour. So I did some more digging.
So a natural delivery introduces the baby to good bacteria through the vaginal canal. Breastmilk helps feed the bacteria. Although the sugar in breastmilk is not easily digested it feeds the gut bacteria.
Thinking about this makes me again question what society is doing to ourselves as humans. I had to have a c-section after loosing a large portion of my uterus through myomectomy the previous year. I was very lucky to fall pregnant at all, and when I did I knew I had to have a early c section to ensure I could have this baby.
But if I'd had a drug free natural birth would he have asthma? would his immune system have been stronger to deal with his first Cystic Fibrosis infection?
So many questions. Im not meaning to mamma guilt myself, but I'm looking at these facts as questions. It's so very interesting.
In South American they are doing research into passing the mothers viginal fluid manually with gauze after birth to new borns who missed the good stuff via natural labour. What exciting research! Makes me wonder if it would assist other children in later infancy ;)
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