I am reposting this article from this website where the whole article is shared. It is still the general opinion that babies are born sterile and only come into contact with microbes as they are born, via the vagina and then the skin they come in contact with. But there is more and more proof that babies grow with microbes in the uterus. Studies have shown the amniotic fluid is not sterile, they’ve found microbes in the umbilicus and they’ve found merconium has bacteria in it too!
It has long been assumed that the fetus lives in a sterile world, protected from the countless bacteria that fill its mother’s gut and cover the surface of her body. A baby’s first gut flora was thought to be collected at birth – either from the mother’s vagina or from the environment it is born into. But it’s time for a drastic rethink: it appears that we are in fact born dirty – bacteria colonise our guts in the womb, where they begin to shape our immune systems and influence our risk of disease. What’s more, this collection of bacteria, or microbiome, could eventually be manipulated to ensure a baby is given the healthiest start in life.
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The Birth of a Biome
Our microbiome, the population of symbiotic microorganisms ...
Source: The Guardian
How a child's food preferences begin in the womb Tests have shown that what a woman eats during her pregnancy is easily detectable in her amniotic fluid, and the foetus develops a taste for familiar flavours It may be a survival mechanism that's come back to bite us o ...
Source: Milk Genomics Consortium
From Mother's Gut to Milk In a world filled with harmful bacteria, viruses, and parasites, it seems quite paradoxical that a human infant would be born with an immature and inefficient immune system. That is, of course, until you realize the infant benefits ...
I had an interesting experience recently when giving a craniosacral therapy session to a woman who had just come back from a doctor's appointment. In passing she mentioned it was a mammogram. It didn't register with me until later when I was completely wiped out and developed an unusual rash on ...
I wish we had gotten this video edited earlier as this recipe for pregnancy tea really supported and strengthened Ruthie's womb. A big thanks to Ruthie's midwife Carol Gautschi for the pregnancy tea recipe. Please visit her website www.gentlebirths.net for more information about the herbal tea. ...
I just stumbled upon this article and movie about the fertility industry which is encouraging young women to sell their eggs for tens of thousands of dollars. I luckily dodged a bullet with this one as I actually tried to sell my eggs years ago. The first time I tried to do it was right after culina ...
I was looking through some old posts and suddenly came across this old draft that for some reason I never published. I don't know why--sorry about that! I recently spent the week on a biodynamic craniosacral therapy course that was held in downtown Vancouver. I don't often spend much time down there ...
In the spring the birds feast on the sumac as there isn't much else available. We had a nest under our porch and at one point there were three adult robins feeding these babies, which I thought was pretty strange, but I saw them all at once with insects in their mouths headed for the nest so I wasn' ...
This slideshow takes us through the whole cycle of life including the birth in spring of twin bambis. We even get a look at deer droppings as well as deer eating. These cycles of life are unavoidable, death is as inevitable as birth, it is ultimately counter-productive to try to sterilize this reali ...
