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Re:The brave new world of DIY faecal transplant by aestra on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @11:35AM (#7804978)
>ensure proper gut colonization in new borns after labor that involves antibiotics

Babies get their intestinal bacteria during the birthing process from the vagina, their mother, the mother's feces, etc. That's why C-section infants have vastly different gut flora initially. They never made that trip down the vagina to be exposed to vaginal bacteria and are exposed to different types of bacteria during the first few weeks of life. I'm not sure the effect of antibiotics are the same or similar to that of a c-section baby. I'm not sure we know the long term effects of c-section babies and gut flora especially later in life. I would think c-section would be much more disturbing to gut flora than antibiotics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut_flora#Acquisition_of_gut_fl...

Re:The brave new world of DIY faecal transplant by bradleyy on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @12:11PM (#7805189)
As a potentially interesting correlation: difficult pregnancies/cesareans tend to produce more autism:

http://www.autismtoday.com/library-back/Autism_More_Likely_i...

Re:The brave new world of DIY faecal transplant by micro_cam on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @12:09PM (#7805173)
I'm sure your right but my wife and I just had a kid through lengthy vaginal birth with antibiotics which is why I asked. (FWIW I'm a computational biologists working on medical studies and have the seen some of the research in this area before, not just one to randomly self medicate.)