C-section birth: bad for your baby? #joshtrent #podcast #tinyhealth #naturalbirth #microbiome

There is a distinct difference between a baby born via vaginal birth versus C section. There's a distinct difference in your guts. You get your microbes from your mom at birth through the vaginal canal. So when a baby is born, they're, they don't have an immune system. They're fragile, they're learning, and these microbes in their gut train their immune system. C section born babies have a higher risk of this progression of allergic disease called atopic march. So eczema, allergies, asthma, they're all a sign that their immune system at birth wasn't trained correctly. There's something called a C section signature that a child could be born with, meaning there's more antibiotic resistant bugs that inhabit a baby's gut. Initially, for babies whose C section signature is gone, their asthma is reduced by 3x.

Wow, that let that land. That's huge.

Yeah.

3X less asthma.

Yes.

Just from correcting microbiome in the gut.

Correct. In the early life. So the first year really is that critical time point.