| BF | Breast-Fed |
| Bif-GroEL | Bifidobacterial groEL Gene |
| CS | Caesarean Section |
| HMOs | Human milk oligosaccharides |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| Lac-GroEL | Lactobacillus groEL Gene |
| LDA | Linear Discriminant Analysis |
| LEfSe | Linear discriminant analysis effect size |
| MF | Mixed-Fed |
| MPF | Milk-Powder-Fed |
| OTU | Operational Taxonomic Unit |
| PICURSt | Phylogenetic Investigation of Communities by Reconstruction of Unobserved States |
| PCA | Principal component analysis |
| PCoA | Principal coordinate analysis |
| PTS | Phosphotransferase System |
| PyNAST | Python Nearest Alignment Space Termination |
| QIIME | Quantitative Insights into Microbial Ecology |
| RDP | Ribosomal Database Project |
| SVD | Standard Vaginally Delivered |