During vaginal birth, the baby collects precious info from the mother’s immune system as it squeezes down the vagina, kickstarting the baby’s own immunity. During caesarean section, the baby gets none of this immune info and may be prone to many sorts of immunity-related complications during the first few years of life.
I don’t know nuthin’ ‘bout birthin’ no babies, but it would seem that the stress of being excreted out of the mother might have this effect - activation or bootstrapping of some change that has later beneficial effect.
Sure, what you say about impaired immunity due to not being born vaginally may be true, but what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Born by C-section 50+ years ago, I did probably have more than my share of allergies, colds, flus etc as a little kid. But then, at some point, a switch flipped and I was rarely sick. I got over covid in 2 days.
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I've read numerous articles about this.My suggestion is to put vaginal fluids into the baby's mouth at birth.