“…In this article, Rives-Lange and colleagues investigated the impact of MBS on obstetric, neonatal, and child outcomes (up to 2 years of age) by analyzing more than 3000 women in the French nationwide database who had pregnancies both before and after MBS. They found MBS was associated with improved fertility as well as significant decreases in many maternal and neonatal complications, including gestational diabetes, delivery of LGA infants, skeletal birth injuries, febrile convulsions, viral intestinal infections, and carbohydrate-metabolism disorders.…”