New research: Sleep-brain-gut link is important for infant development

Toni Harman
5 min readJan 7, 2022

QUICK SUMMARY: A new study links a baby’s sleep pattern to the infant gut microbiome.

This sleep-brain-gut link is important for infant development.

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The new study by SF Schoch et al., (2021) found infant sleep habits and neurophysiology are connected to a baby’s gut microbiome.

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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