New research: Bacteria do not colonise the infant gut microbiome before birth — it happens during and after birth

Toni Harman
4 min readMay 13, 2021

Big news in the world of the infant microbiome….

Recent research finds the colonisation of the baby’s gut microbiome STARTS DURING and AFTER birth, and NOT BEFORE.

In the study Kennedy K.M. et al., (10th May, 2021) published in Nature Microbiology

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Toni Harman

I help parents and health professionals better understand the science of pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and the microbiome. https://linktr.ee/toniharman