if you'd like, I have a link somewhere to an Australian study that compared the two and found that neither strategy better than the other.
Yes please - I would like to have any info at my fingertips that is available! The only Cochrane Review info available was pretty brief. I also note that the studies in favour of the routine administration of a/biotics are based on poor samples - and there doesn't seem to be much info on the instance of checking for resistant bacteria and other types of sepsis in neonates. It's like, "We can test for this one, so this one's the bogeyman!" when of course it isn't as straightforward as that, is it?