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The human microbiome and its association with health and diseases are currently a topic of discussion and our understanding is enhancing on a daily basis. In India, there is a tradition since time immemorial that immediately after birth, the newborn is not allowed to suck the mother’s breast or any other hospital beverage, but the family will choose a most respected and legendary woman to put honey on her index finger and put in the mouth of the newborn, so that the baby can suck the sweetened finger. Only after this tradition, baby can take any other fluid or mother’s milk. It is believed that the baby will develop the same personality and health parameters as of this woman. It is also believed that this tradition was used as blessing to the baby. No validation studies have been done, but in the present era of the microbiome, with advances in gene sequencing and associated bioinformatics, a lot of data are being generated. It would be interesting to study, if this Indian tradition has some relation with the customized microbiome establishment and if the profile of microbiome determines the health and personality of the growing child. We know that fingers are the host of various personal and environmental microbiota, which can be divided into residual and transient types.[1] The count of culturable bacteria can be several thousand on the fingertips, and especially in ancient times, when sanitary toilets were not available, the hands were used to clean the anus after defecation, the fingers carried a plethora of gut microbes.

Can establishment of human microbiome be customized after birth with local traditions of first feed and intimate kissing?