For generations it was considered an old wives’ tale, the tendency for new mothers to become somewhat scatterbrained for the first few months of parenthood.
A curated edit supporting the journey through pregnancy and motherhood.
Probiotics
For fertility, pregnancy and infancy
In the previous issues we discussed microbiome in relation to fertility and pregnancy. Let’s now continue the journey for newborns.
We’ve previously written about how a healthy vagina is not bacteria-free but hosts trillions of bacteria, dominated by Lactobacillus species. Below is the first of a two-part feature discussing probiotics’ roles in relation to the first 1,000 days of life: fertility, pregnancy, and infancy.
There used to exist a silly schoolboy poem about what medieval knights used as contraception (socks, so went the rhyme), but have you ever wondered how birth control really did work way back when?