Get the support you need to restore your baby's gut after a c-section birth

Tiny Health's Root Cause Assessment and Eczema Gut Rebalance Program are great tools to use in conjunction with your provider's services. There is no one- size fits all approach to gut health. Tiny Health's services will be able to give your provider a clear view of what is happening in your baby's gut so that a personalized plan of care that addresses your baby's specific needs can be implemented. We also offer guidance to your practitioners at no additional cost, to help them best understand your results and utilize them in your care plan.

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• Rebalance the gut: increase beneficial species, reduce unfriendly and overabundant ones
• Many families see a reduction in eczema symptoms
• Eliminate gut imbalances as a contributing factor to eczema

While microbiome testing does not test for eczema, we can show associations between your baby's gut microbiome and their symptoms of eczema. Or the potential risk of these conditions developing. How do we do this? We use something called biomarkers. Microbial biomarkers are bacteria associated with a higher or lower likelihood of developing a particular condition. But not everyone with biomarkers will have that condition. And everyone with a condition may not have the biomarkers. Microbial biomarkers are developed from research. The Tiny Health Bioinformatics Pipeline uses a custom built database of over 120K complete microbial genomes. We sift through the research surrounding the microbiome and use this information to develop a list of bacteria that we feel are important to track in early life. Beyond the gut, there are a lot of other factors that also contribute to these conditions. Like genetics, lifestyle, and environmental exposures.

If your child already has eczema or food allergies, it is likely that their gut could use some support! This is where Tiny Health would love to help provide insight. If your child does not have any symptoms, let's check in on the gut and see how we can help keep things on track.

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If you join the program you are committing to a 12-month subscription. While you may cancel and stop your coaching sessions, you will be charged an early cancellation fee for the remaining balance of the program. If you are unsure about committing to a 12-month program, we recommend starting with the Root Cause Assessment to determine if your baby’s gut requires extended support and testing. If so, you can then opt into the 6-month program for additional support.

Yes! By restoring your baby's gut microbiome and reducing their "C-Section Signature" by the age of one, can help you reduce their microbiome risk for developing these conditions. For example, this is an expert from one of our White Papers regarding C- Sections and asthma. "Studies have shown that C-section-delivered infants are at more than double the risk of developing asthma later in life[30]. However, the risk of asthma can be mitigated after a C-section birth if the baby's microbiome restores to a "healthy range" by 1 year of age [1]. Children who retain a C-section gut microbial signature at 1 year old have a 3 times increased risk of developing asthma by age 6, while C-section babies without the microbiome signature have the same risk as vaginal born babies. This suggests that appropriate maturation of the gut microbiome mitigates the risk of asthma linked to C-section birth and provides a window of opportunity for intervention."

If a baby has high levels of unfriendly bacteria in their gut microbiome for prolonged periods of time, especially in the first 1,000 days, it can elevate their risk for developing eczema, food allergies, asthma, and a host of other chronic conditions later in life like metabolic and autoimmune conditions. While only one piece of the puzzle, the microbiome plays an important role in the developing immune system and immunological conditions.

Thankfully, studies have shown there is a window of opportunity for intervention, and by acting early to restore your baby's gut microbiome, you can reduce their microbiome risk for developing these conditions.

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