The Bacteria Babies Need

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    I knew this but I did not know that the number was so low, only 1 out of every 10 babies born in 1st world countries have this naturally occurring immune system bacteria. It should be 10 out of 10 but with the input of artificial technologies, much of them are life-saving, we are bypassing this very critical and natural mother-to-baby exposure process.
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    “Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have found that a strain of bacteria called B. infants that is thought to have been the dominant bacterium in the infant gut for all of human history is disappearing from the Western world. According to their research, this was probably caused by the rise in cesarean births, the overuse of antibiotics and the use of infant formula in place of breast milk.
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    Indeed, nine out of 10 American babies don’t harbor this bacterium in their gut, while researchers suspect that the majority of infants in less industrialized countries do.”
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    The Bacteria Babies Need But Are Not Getting Because of the increase in cesarean births, synthetic baby formula and the overuse of antibiotics. But there is a solution....
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    Click the link below:
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    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/opinion/babies-bacteria-breastfeeding-formula.html

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