{"id":129635,"date":"2016-02-02T14:11:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T21:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/02\/life-is-messy-and-sometimes-thats-a-good-thing.html"},"modified":"2016-02-08T17:13:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T00:13:49","slug":"life-is-messy-and-sometimes-thats-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/02\/life-is-messy-and-sometimes-thats-a-good-thing.html","title":{"rendered":"Life is messy &#8212; and sometimes that&#039;s a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found some indications that C-section babies are healthier (develop a more natural skin microbiome) if smeared with vaginal fluids from their moms after delivery. Which makes a lot of sense, once one thinks about it, but isn&#39;t the sort of thing one normally thinks about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2016\/02\/birth-of-a-microbiome-researchers-smear-babies-with-vaginal-fluid\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/PDIsG2gCXxxw8-rgHmPnElVY8VXN37M7jVll26IMENHTl3b074LFwHzE2f89G-Q2VKvvhmNU0941Zowyov9QG2X8J6VJJh6hMpEit1kINPQJIGREpXesiZZSl0mFWr1-smyNzLvJlx--=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2016\/02\/birth-of-a-microbiome-researchers-smear-babies-with-vaginal-fluid\/'>Birth of a microbiome: Researchers smear babies with vaginal fluid | Ars Technica<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nC-section newborns slathered with moms&rsquo; secretions may dodge lifelong health problems.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/cKyNbbktN56'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found some indications that C-section babies are healthier (develop a more natural skin microbiome) if smeared with vaginal fluids from their moms after delivery. Which makes a lot of sense, once one thinks about it, but isn&#39;t the sort of thing one normally thinks about. Birth of a microbiome: Researchers smear babies with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/02\/life-is-messy-and-sometimes-thats-a-good-thing.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life is messy &#8212; and sometimes that&#039;s a good thing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-health-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9907,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/11\/baby_baby_baby.html","url_meta":{"origin":129635,"position":0},"title":"Baby, baby, baby","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Oct-06 1:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A history of obstetrics -- and how the impulse for standardized reliability means that C-sections continue to grow in popularity. 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