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Role of the Microbiome in Infant Development

Kate Raines

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Resources:

The Vaccine Reaction website: https://www.thevaccinereaction.org/

Considerations for Pregnancy, Birth, and Early Mothering

Rachel Reed, Ph.D.

References:

Human Microbiome Project: https://www.hmpdacc.org/
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Sara Wickham article. A Small ‘Seeding’. https://www.sarawickham.com/riffing-ranting-and-raving/a-small-seeding-rant/

Resources:

Microbirth – the movie
Birthful Podcast: Your baby’s microbiome with Dr Rodney Dietert
Science and Sensibility: The healthy birth: dyad or triad? Exploring birth and the microbiome
‘Is society being shaped on a microbiological and epigenetic level by the way women give birth? – the Crickey health blog
Eureka Alert – The infant gut microbiome: new studies on its origin and how it’s knocked out of balance
Belly Belly – Seeding baby with good bacteria using vagina swabbing
Gut feelings: the future of psychiatry may be inside your stomach
Gut bacteria might guide the workings of your minds
Original Article. https://midwifethinking.com/2014/01/15/the-human-microbiome-considerations-for-pregnancy-birth-and-early-mothering/

Natural Immunity

Philip F. Incao, M.D.

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