1 in every 3 American births by Cesarean & newborn's stomach flora - Page 2

[Belle15]

My almost 3 yo DD was born via CS at 42 1/2 weeks after a 3-4 day induction. She was given antibiotics and put in NICU because of my temperature. Aside from a bit of baby acne, she has no food sensativies, allergies and rarely gets sick. We BF for just over 2 yrs. I have a scheduled cs next week for my DS at 41 weeks.

[linnea27]

I haven't read all the posts so I apologize if this has been discussed, but has anyone heard about some of the research about intestional flora and autism? I was really skeptical when I first heard about it, but I'm now intrigued after reading more about it. The gist, if I remember it correctly, is that scientists have found certain bacteria (clostridia?) in the gut of children with autism that is not inside average children. When this bacteria is cultivated it produces a kind of toxin. When the toxin was given to rats they exhibited autistic-like behaviour. It was suggested that antibiotic use in young children and/or c-section birth and/or not breastfeeding creates a deficiency of sorts in the gut flora which leaves room for this other bacteria to take over. I thought it was interesting if nothing else.

http://cogentbenger.com/autism/interviews/

you have to read all the interviews to get a fuller pictures- there are several scientists looking at different pieces of how bacteria *may* correlate with autism and why.