In Spain the debate between vaginal delivery or caesarean section is not too angry because most women give birth in a social security hospital or at home, where the delivery is always intended to be vaginal. Only those who go by private have a certain capacity for decision, or are directly influenced by gynecologists with few scruples that put the caesarean day and time because it is when they are working.
However, in many countries women can choose, and the sample is that many of the readers of the blog, from countries of America, have come to defend the caesarean section in both posts and on Facebook as the best way to give light, even listing the multiple benefits, above vaginal delivery. The problem is that it is a manipulation of the reality that many professionals there carry out, for economic reasons (a caesarean section costs much more money than a vaginal delivery) and this causes many women to give birth by caesarean section when it is best that Do not be like that. Why? Well, among many reasons, because if we compare vaginal delivery with caesarean section, immunologically (we talk about the baby), the differences are obvious.
What bacteria do you want to colonize the baby
Babies are relatively sterile before birth, and I don't mean their ability to have offspring, but rather that they don't have too many bacteria in their body. But we know that we all have our internal organs full of bacteria and good "bugs" that help us digest and defend us from many diseases. The best thing for a baby is that at birth it is filled with bacteria and "bugs" of his mother, because his defenses, which he has thanks to the mother, know these microorganisms perfectly. For it, ideally, a baby is born vaginally and that, as soon as it is born, it is put in contact skin to skin with the mother. Only with that already receives much of these maternal microorganisms and its internal flora begins to multiply based on that.
Now, if the baby is born by caesarean section, it does not receive all that load of maternal microbiota and tends to capture it from the environment in which it is born and from the people with whom it is at that moment, in addition to the mother. Being then, many of them, unknown to your immune system, and this is worse.
This is confirmed by a recent study conducted at the University of Copenhagen, which concludes that Caesarean section deliver long-term deficits of key factors in the prevention of immune diseases.
It is not the first study that talks about this. In fact in Babies and more We have also commented on occasion. The intestinal flora of babies born by natural birth is different from that of babies born by caesarean section, and the latter have fewer cells related to immune factors, thus having a higher risk of diseases such as diabetes 1, Crohn's disease or allergies, closely related to the immune role of the body.
Camilla Hartmann Friis Hansen, one of the authors of the study, says the following about it:
The study shows that babies born by caesarean section develop a smaller number of cells that strengthen the immune system ... first exposure to microorganisms seems to be crucial.
And that first exposure obviously depends on how a baby arrives in the world, to which we will have to add the type of food that he receives later, because a breast milk diet will cause the baby to receive maternal immune cells, but feeding with artificial milk does not provide those cells to the baby.
Vaginal delivery before caesarean section
For that, and for many other reasons, It is better for a baby to be born by vaginal delivery, and if it can be, by natural birth, since the lower the interference of professionals, the better the process usually goes (if the delivery develops normally). Caesarean section is not the best for the baby because of the comments and all the risks involved, which you can read here. If necessary, if necessary, a C-section can save the life of a baby and / or the mother. If it is not necessary, then vaginal delivery is much better.
