Connection between dirty diapers, childhood health
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/14/health/time-bacteria-children/index.html?hpt=hp_bn13
I wrote earlier about the potentially huge issues regarding the microbiome, this article shows its importance starts at the very earliest days. Normal birth (i.e., vaginal) gives a ‘gift’ of a bacterial culture inoculation from mom (thanks mom!) that might be pivotal to life long health. Being born via Cesarean sections (C-section) deprives the newborn with this rather discusting inoculation, but I bet in a decade or so children born via C-section will get a mouthful of ‘inoculum’ (sounds sanitary that way, eh?) to give them their best start in life. It wouldn’t surprise me if they looked at how mom was born (and potentially her mom before that, C-sections have been around for a good long while) there might be some even more interesting correlations. Once a person has a certain microbiome it can be very challenging to alter it, even for short periods of time. Maybe if mom was born via C-section then even her kids born vaginally might not get the protection they need.
