Preventing diseases in infants delivered via caesarean section

A method for stimulating the development of a healthy intestinal flora and/or decreasing the occurrence of intestinal pathogens in infants delivered via caesarean section comprising administering within 3 months of birth to the infant delivered via caesarean section a composition that is not human milk and comprises:

• (a) 0.5 to 75 g of non-digestible oligosaccharides per 100 g dry weight of the composition, wherein the non-digestible oligosaccharides comprise galacto-oligosaccharides having at least 50% of its saccharide units of the galacto-oligosaccharides as galactose units, and
• (b) at least one Bifidobacterium selected from the group consisting of B. Longum, B. Breve, B. infantis, B. catenulatum, B. pseudocatenulatum, B. adolescentis, B. animalis, B. gallicum, B. lactis and B. Bifidum.