During pregnancy, a woman’s body goes through major physical, hormonal, and emotional changes. For mothers-to-be, this special time brings with it unique concerns about their health and wellbeing as their bodies change and their babies develop.
The changes that occur during pregnancy impact the natural balance of the microbiome. For the mother-to-be, it can lead to occasional digestive discomfort and require extra support to her immune system1.
These changes also play a vital role in the development of her baby’s microbiome. Throughout pregnancy and birth, the mother helps her baby establish and develop a healthy gut microbiota2.
When you help a coming mother with probiotics for her pregnancy issues, she’s both helping herself and setting the stage for successfully seeding her baby’s microbiome.
The changes that occur during pregnancy impact the natural balance of the microbiome. For the mother-to-be, it can lead to occasional digestive discomfort and require extra support to her immune system3.
Nature orchestrates an amazing series of events meant to produce a healthy infant. At birth, the mother helps her baby establish a healthy microbiota that will contribute to its healthy development4.
Mom’s with the tendency of having red, itchy skin want to help prevent it in their babies since it can lead to other skin challenges down the road5,6.
In late pregnancy, hormonal changes increase the amount of Bifidobacteria in a woman’s gut,7 so she can pass these on when she seeds her infant’s microbiota.
Istilos™ is a Bifidobacteria known to thrive in the infant gut and is thought to help develop the immune system and support gut barrier function.8,9
So she knows she’s giving her baby the best start.
This heavily researched probiotic is known for its gut health benefits, like helping to normalize bowel habits and strengthen the immune system.10
Several studies have also shown that it may help babies avoid getting red, itchy, skin.11-13
Our unique synbiotics contain MyOli™ HMOs. HMOs are the only prebiotic that the human bodies can produce. They’ve evolved to modulate an infant’s microbiome to optimally support the baby’s development, and encourage growth of Bifidobacteriaum.12
Do your customers believe more strains equals more relevance?
The Astarte™ probiotic is a combination of bacterial species commonly found in healthy vaginal microbiotas. After careful research into the specific traits of many strains isolated from healthy women, four Lactobacillus or Lacticaseibacillus strains were selected that represent the four most dominant vaginal species.
Astarte™ won “Probiotic of the Year” at the 2019 NutraIngredients Awards, where the judges noted its strong science and market success. So if you’re looking for a winning product for vaginal health, build it with an acclaimed probiotic.
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When a mother gifts her baby with a microbiome during birth, that becomes the basis for lifelong health. At six months old, more than 80% of bacterial strains in a baby’s microbiota are still same as the mothers.
A good start is important, as a baby’s microbiome helps it develops a strong gut and immune system and even influences brain development and metabolism — especially in the development window up to 24 months.15
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1 Zakaria et al. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2022ORZakaria et al. Physiological Changes and Interactions Between Microbiome and the Host During Pregnancy. Frontiers. 2022 Vol 12
2 Mueller et al. The infant microbiome development: mom matters. Trends Mol Med. 2015 Feb;21(2):109-17.
3 Zakaria et al. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2022ORZakaria et al. Physiological Changes and Interactions Between Microbiome and the Host During Pregnancy. Frontiers. 2022 Vol 12
4 Mueller et al. The infant microbiome development: mom matters. Trends Mol Med. 2015 Feb;21(2):109-17.
5 Kalliomaki M, et al. Probiotics in primary prevention of atopic disease: a randomised placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2001;357(9262):1076-9. Link
6 Kalliomaki M, et al. Probiotics and prevention of atopic disease: 4-year follow-up of a randomised placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2003;361(9372):1869-71. Link
7 Sinha et al., The maternal gut microbiome during pregnancy and its role in maternal and infant health. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2023 Aug;74:102309.
8 Melsaether et al., Seeding the Infant Gut in Early Life-Effects of Maternal and Infant Seeding with Probiotics on Strain Transfer, Microbiota, and Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Healthy Breastfed Infants. Nutrients. 2023 Sep 15;15(18):4000.
9 Hermes et al., Variation in the Conservation of Species-Specific Gene Sets for HMO Degradation and Its Effects on HMO Utilization in Bifidobacteria. Nutrients. 2024 Jun 15;16(12):1893.
10 See LGG® product page (LGG®)
11. Kalliomaki M, et al. Probiotics in primary prevention of atopic disease: a randomised placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2001;357(9262):1076-9. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11297958/)
12 Kalliomaki M, et al. Probiotics and prevention of atopic disease: 4-year follow-up of a randomised placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2003;361(9372):1869-71. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12788576/)
13 Kalliomäki, Marko et al. “Probiotics during the first 7 years of life: a cumulative risk reduction of eczema in a randomized, placebo-controlled trial.” J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2007: 1019-21
14 Thomson et al., Human milk oligosaccharides and health promotion through the gut microbiome. Dairy in Human Health and Disease Across the Lifespan. Academic Press, 2017. 73-86.
15 Gilbert SF. A holobiont birth narrative: the epigenetic transmission of the human microbiome. Front Genet. 2014 Aug 19;5:282.
