Conclusion
The results indicate that the labour process is an important and
necessary part of delivery for the infants’ immune system, and also add
to the growing body of evidence suggesting an unnecessary
“overproduction” of CS leading to not only maternal and socioeconomic,
but certainly also neonatal consequences. The long-term outcome, after
pre-labour and in-labour CS, on the developing immune system in the
children in this study, remains to be investigated. When the children in
the CODIBINE cohort gets older, and thus have obtained an age where more
diagnoses have been set, we plan to make a full study on several
disorders and birth complications.