Caesarean babies missing key microbes at birth ‘can get them from other sources’

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Babies born via Caesarean section receive less of their mother’s bacteria during birth, but helpful microbes can still reach them through other ways such as breastfeeding, research suggests.

Scientists in the Netherlands have found that nearly 60% of a baby’s microbes come from the mother, regardless of how they were born.