"How to Boost A Baby's "Good Bacteria" After C-Section Birth"
At the moment babies emerge into the world, a host of beneficial bacteria begins to colonize in their gastrointestinal tract. Exposure to these bacteria is interrupted with C-section birth, however. Jose Clemente, PhD an assistant professor of genetics and genomic sciences at the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai, and colleagues are looking to give C-section babies the microbes they're missing--and hopefully some of the health benefits--by swabbing babies born via C-section with their mother's vaginal fluid shortly after birth. CBS News. NPR.