The Link Between C-Sections and Childhood Asthma

Did you deliver your baby by c-section? If so, your little one may have a higher risk of developing asthma than a child who was delivered vaginally. This is according to a study published this summer in the July 2008 issue of The Journal of Pediatrics. The study took a look babies born in Norway between the years of 1967 and 1998 and then followed up with those same children through the age of 18 or the year 2002, which ever came first. The researchers found that those children who were born through a c-section had a 52 percent increased … Continue reading