In this time of fear of disease, what can we do to protect our new borns? What is the best way to promote a strong immune system? The answer is surprisingly simple... do as nature intended.
Take a look at this well written piece about birth and your baby's microbiome. We are human because of the microbes who live in us and on us. Without them we would not survive! We depend on them to help us to extract nutrients from our food, manufacture the hormones we need and deal with waste in the body amongst many other jobs. If you were to count the cells in the body, they are actually outnumbered by the microbe cells! Crazy but true. It may feel a bit weird to think that we have so many microbes living alongside us, we have been taught to believe that bacteria are bad, but actually they are an essential part of being human.
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AuthorCheryl Rowe - Midwife Archives
May 2023
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