Adding to the growing body of research on the importance of gastrointestinal microbiota for good health, a new series of studies presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology in Houston, Texas suggests that factors such as gestational age, birth method, and breastfeeding influence the development of the immune […] More
Women — including women with an epidural — who use a peanut-shaped exercise ball during labor give birth more quickly and are half as likely to undergo a cesarean section than women who do not use the ball, says a new study by nurse researchers at Banner Health published in the Journal of Perinatal Education. […] More
Birth method and gestation duration appear to make a significant difference in the health of babies, with new research finding that such environmental factors may affect the way in which gut bacteria mature. The study published in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, could help predict later body fat and […] More
Previous studies have concluded that the gut bacteria of babies born vaginally differs from the gut bacteria of babies born via cesarean section. Now a new study by researchers from the University of Copenhagen as published in the Journal of Immunology indicates that natural birth provides a boost to the immune system. Using a mouse […] More
In the United States in 2011, the Cesarean (C-section) delivery rate was 32.8 percent, accounting for the births of nearly 1.3 million babies. Although the majority of C-sections are performed when unexpected problems occur during labor and birth, some women choose to deliver via Cesarean despite an absence of problems. Now a new study from […] More
Your baby is now the size of a stalk of Swiss chard in length, measuring between nineteen (19) and twenty-one (21) inches from head to heel and weighing about six and one-third (6.3) pounds. You are in your ninth month of pregnancy. Your pregnancy is now considered full term. Your Baby Although your due date […] More
A new study published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood has linked childhood obesity to cesarean sections. The Boston-based study followed 1,250 pregnant women from the time of conception through the third birthday of their children. The study found that 15.7 percent of children delivered by cesarean section had developed childhood obesity while […] More
