After your baby is born, it is still incredibly important to nurture your own and your baby’s gut health.
For you, postpartum concerns include sleep disturbance, depression, breast infection and perineal healing. These issues are all aggravated by disturbances in your gut microbiome called gut “dysbiosis,” which can be caused by stress and poor diet.
For your baby, concerns include prevention of skin rashes and colic, boosting digestive health to promote easy, painless feeding, reducing allergic response (especially in the case of Cesarean section delivery) and boosting the immune system to reduce the risk of colds and flu.1 All of these issues have been linked to gut dysbiosis in newborns.