BIRTH PROS, STAY CURRENT ON THEORY: Maybe babies DONT get their gut bacteria via vaginal delivery but through the placenta! Also, He said that pregnant women were often given antibiotics, “for all kinds of reasons, many justified, but there’s a slippery slope.” Assuming that the placenta was sterile anyway, he said, doctors thought antibiotics would not affect the fetus. But if the placenta is not sterile, and is instead a portal for bacteria from the mother, he asked, “What are the antibiotics doing?” I WANT TO BE A PLACENTA RESEARCHER!
Posted on: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 18:16:44 +0000
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