The goal of this clinical trial is to test the ability of different bacterial products in restoring natural gut microbiota in C-section born infants. The main question it aims to answer is: Do maternally derived strains of bacteria perform better than commercially available probiotic strains in restoring the gut microbiota of C-section born infants? Researchers will compare the gut microbiota of treated infants to that of untreated C-section born infants and untreated vaginally born infants to see if the bacterial treatments cause the microbiota to resemble that of vaginally born infants. Participants will be given a bacterial product orally once daily for either one or four weeks and be asked to collect faecal, urine and saliva samples.
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Microbiota composition, relative and absolute abundances
Timeframe: 1 week, 5 weeks, 11 weeks, 26 weeks and 52 weeks.
Fecal metabolite profiles
Timeframe: 1 week, 5 weeks, 11 weeks, 26 weeks and 52 weeks