What you eat while pregnant may affect your baby's gut

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What you eat while pregnant may affect your baby's gut

mother's diet during pregnancy may have an effect on the composition of her baby's gut microbiome - the community of bacteria living in the gut - and the effect may vary by delivery mode, according to study published in the open access journal Microbiome.

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Maternal diet during pregnancy is related with the infant stool microbiome in a delivery mode-dependent manner 
Microbiome 2018 
Sara N. Lundgren, Juliette C. Madan, Jennifer A. Emond, Hilary G. Morrison, Brock C. Christensen, Margaret R. Karagas and Anne G. Hoen

Links : https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/bc-wye062918.php 

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