Comments on: Study: C-Section Babies Miss Out on a Dose of Beneficial Bacteria

By: Rain

Rain — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:52:28 +0000

I don’t see anything in this article that says c-sections are bad. It just says that the bacteria baby is exposed to is not necessarily what the baby needs. The article should be leading us to figure out how to help baby, not leading us to argue pro/against c-section as the issue of c-section is more complex than baby’s personal flora.

My mother and I would both be dead without c-section. Hell, she would be dead without modern medicine long before she had kids, so again, the issue is not medical advancements, it is something else. Focus people.

We sure are a defensive lot, aren’t we?

By: Colleen Little

Colleen Little — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:01:38 +0000

I have had two children via c-section, the first an emergency, and the second a near emergency. The OB doc told me that a hundred years ago I would have died in childbirth, as the baby was just too big for me to deliver (the first) and the second was breached.

Now, nearly 30 years later, I am so grateful to the doctors who brought my children into the world! I am also grateful to be alive to see my grandchildren. There is nothing wrong with c-sections, except that the insurance companies don’t like them.

By: Jake Majors, M.D. FACOG

Jake Majors, M.D. FACOG — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:01:38 +0000

Prior to this Century approximately 50% of women died as result of childbirth. The rate of fetal loss and children was even higher. Cesarean birth is not a good thing, it is a wonderful thing. Women are encouraged to experience pain for no defensible reason……. Does the phrase natural childbirth sound offensive? It should…. No other branch of medicine encourages a painful experience like obstetrics can. To say something is natural is to say that the opposite of it is natural. Ask your dentist for a natural tooth extraction and see what look you get from her! I know the artical is not overtly against cesarean, but the obvious undercurrent is everywhere you look. This is never the case against vaginal delivery. Read about strep infection from that route that is a proven killer of newborns. Please excuse my poor diction, proof reading in an airport on a phone screen is tough.

By: badnicolez

badnicolez — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:28:56 +0000

I wonder if this could also help explain the increase in autism.

By: Rain

Rain — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:07:06 +0000

Well, the solution seems simple enough. Handle the baby with gloves until it receives an inoculation from the appropriate source of bacteria. I wonder if modern sensibilities would allow this? Of course there are conditions and situations where it would not be possible to collect the correct bacteria, but whatever. In any case, the child should be put on its mother’s skin first, regardless of whatever else may happen.

I was born via c-section, and while I was a bit of a sickly child, I am an extremely robust adult.