Microbiome Rebirth Incubator

François-Joseph Lapointe (CA), Marianne Cloutier (CA)

The Microbiome Rebirth Incubator is a device designed to seed babies born by emergency C-section with vaginal bacteria and breast milk essential to infant growth, either by dipping the newborn in the incubator, or by soaking a sterile compress in the probiotic cocktail to wash the baby’s mouth, face and body.

Microbiome Rebirth Incubator / François-Joseph Lapointe (CA), Marianne Cloutier (CA), Credit: vog.photo
Microbiome Rebirth Incubator / François-Joseph Lapointe (CA), Marianne Cloutier (CA), Credit: vog.photo

This project symbolically explores the possibility of ​​repairing the microbiome, as a way to re-empower the mother and her child, and to erase the traumatic experience of caesarean birth.

This is a prototype of Microbiome Rebirth Incubator, an original commission for the SPARE PARTS exhibition coming to Science Gallery London in 2019.