The increasingly popular practice of “vaginal seeding” — in which cesarean-delivered babies are immediately swabbed with the mother’s vaginal fluids — is declared unjustified and potentially unsafe in a 2018 critical review of scientific literature. Differences between the bacteria and other microorganisms (microbiome) in cesarean- and vaginally born babies are thought to account for the… Continue reading Swabbing Cesarean-Born Babies with Vaginal Fluids Is Potentially Unsafe and Unnecessary