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Re:Association Between Cesarean Birth and Risk of Obesity by flurie on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:19PM (#12446364)
A pilot study on this was published pretty recently with some success in terms of passing the mother's microbiome on to the infant, though that's still a long way off from determining the benefits.

http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v22/n3/full/nm.4039.html

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Re:Association Between Cesarean Birth and Risk of Obesity by downeveryroad on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @06:37PM (#12448557)
Thanks for sharing this. Our firstborn was an unscheduled c-section and my wife is now pregnant with our second child. We will likely schedule a c-section this time and I want to do whatever I can to help create a healthy gut microbiome at birth.
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