Colorado is the first state to offer paid NICU leave for parents. But most U.S. NICU parents face impossible choices while their babies are sick.

A family alleging their baby boy was born in June with severe, permanent brain damage due to a delayed cesarean section at Lovelace Women’s Hospital in Albuquerque filed an amended complaint against ...

An estimated 1.7 million women in Bangladesh underwent unnecessary caesarean sections (CS) in 2025, exposing mothers and ...

A procedure called vaginal seeding may help babies born via cesarean section develop healthy microbiomes, despite some health experts warning against the practice, according to NPR. 1. Babies who are ...

While C-sections do cause an initial shift in a babys gut bacteria it is not a permanent health sentence Most changes are short-lived as the gut matures ...

Babies born via cesarean section aren’t exposed to the suite of bacteria that populate their mothers’ birth canals, often an infants first exposure to the “good” bacteria that will populate their ...

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new study found that babies born by C-section had 83% lower odds of developing eczema when their families participated in a 6-month gut health ...

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WASHINGTON — Sharing bacteria in the operating room normally is a no-no, but in a novel experiment, researchers are giving babies born by C-section a dose of presumably protective germs from their ...