If you’d like to support our podcast, you can find us on Patreon at patreon.com/milkminutepodcast.Get your breastfeeding journey BACK ON TRACK with a Lactation Consult with Heather! Telehealth available and some insurance accepted. Click the link below for the deets.Click here to Work with HeatherThank you to our sponsor Maureen Farrell (our co-host): shop her creative mom and baby items on Etsy at The Wandering Womb; click the link belowetsy.com/shop/thewanderingwom6Table of Contents0:00 We’re talking about the infant gut microbiome1:10 Special interview with Evolve Biosystems scientists: Part 1 of 23:47 Thank you to our sponsor Breastfeeding for Busy Moms4:35 Guests: scientists Tracy Schafizadeh & Bethany Hendrick6:35 Why study “baby poop” & breast milk9:55 Defining “human milk oligosaccharides,” aka HMOs10:05 Defining the (really important) “b infantis” bacteria10:35 Why and how Evolve Biosystems started11:15 Let’s talk about HMOs, details are important14:30 Understanding how b infantis works15:10 What is a microbiome?16:50 The birth fecal-oral transfer: it’s set-up by nature!18:15 B infantis and nonvaginal births21:25 Finding: 97% of US babies have no b infantis22:15 Relationship between b infantis and breastmilk24:15 How b infantis changes baby poop26:25 What changing pH mean27:10 Gut health connected to overall health28:00 Why don’t we have b infantis in the US anymore?30:55 Other countries’ babies have b infantis: Are they better off?35:15 Microbiome and immune system: bosom buddies36:00 What can we do to help infant guts in the US? Yes!37:30 Not all b infantis is the same!41:09 Thank you to our sponsor The Wandering Womb41:50 A summary of what we’ve covered in Part 1 (of 2)44:05 Part 2 next week: what we’ll cover45:45 Thank you for listening!ResourcesEvolve Biosystemshttps://www.evolvebiosystems.com/Credits and contactThanks to Cherie Louise Turner for editing and production and to Lindsay Brett Carothers for her musical stylings of our intro and outro.Additional music credits, thank you Wataboi and Mazzaccaro from Pixabay.Thanks for listening to The Milk Minute. If you haven’t already please like, subscribe, and review our podcast wherever you listen.To send us feedback, personal stories, or just to chat you can send us an email at milkminutepodcast@gmail.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/milkminutepodcast)