What Can Happen to a Baby Whose Mother Was Treated for GBS During Labor?
While some studies are showing that giving antibiotics to women in labor with the GBS bacteria may decrease the rate of GBS infections among newborns, other research shows it’s possible that this “benefit” might be increasing the opportunity for other infections to occur. A study, which looked at the rates of blood infection among newborns over a period of six years, found that antibiotics during labor may have reduced the instance of GBS infection, but increased the incidence of other forms of blood infection. 4 What Other Problems Can Occur? Because we work with children with autism and because we specialize in an antifungal diet, we saw clearly that both fungal and viral infections are the foundation for autism. Babies are coming into the world with a weakened immune system. An inner ecosystem is not established in their little intestinal tract when they are born so they do not have an immune system, yet we foolishly allow them to be vaccinated. Rather than becoming protected from p
