Comments on: Baby’s first bacteria depend on route of delivery

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:12:10 +0000

@Jennie, do us all a favor and you or your family ever has medical problems (cancer, broken bones, etc.) don’t go to a doctor or hospital. Let natural selection take it’s course since homosapians didn’t evolve with access to hospitals.

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By: Jennie

Jennie — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:02:45 +0000

“just 3% of women would opt for a C-section if they didn’t have a medical need for one.”

The definition of medical need, and the causes of its arising, should be looked at. In Holland, where most births are at home, the need for medical intervention is much lower than in the UK.

For the record, I have three sons, all by vaginal delivery with a few puffs of entonox at the end, all breast fed and weaned naturally. They are extraordinarily healthy.

Sometimes I think we tend to forget that Homo sapiens did not evolve with access to hospitals, C sections and formula milk.

By: Vaishnavi Raghunathanhan

Vaishnavi Raghunathanhan — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:15:46 +0000

I’vent given birth.. yet. I believe anything that’s not natural has its own added baggage. It happens for a reason.

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:36:32 +0000

with regard to C-sections- i have 4 kids, the first 2 by emergency C-section, the latter 2 by elective C-section. those second 2 go into the stats as elective, but tain’t nothing to do with “too posh to push”. the ultimate goal of pregnancy and labour is a BABY. everyhting else is baggage. kind of glad my son was C-section tho’. if he read this and thouoght he had my vaginal microbiota all over him, he might just self flay!

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:34:12 +0000

I feel dirty!

By: southlakesmom

southlakesmom — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:01:40 +0000

I had my two kids, one by each method. The one delivered by C section is robustly healthy and always has been. The one delivered vaginally struggled with skin and food allergies for the first few years, and was diagnosed (via an anaphylactic response) with nut allergies when he was three, so that will be a life long thing. On the other hand, he outgrew the rest of the stuff, is 13 years old and nearly 6 feet tall, a competitive swimmer, i.e. obviously fine except for needing to carry the epi-pen for nuts.

So, once again, my kids have to do things ‘backwards’ from what the studies might suggest!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:19:49 +0000

Ed, I just found your blog and I intend to read back through a lot of it when I find the time. It’s great to have a place with cool scientific content that appeals to a broad demographic. Keep up the great work.