Advice re Vitamin K ....

[Duritzfan]

Hi everyone... I a due this week and still cannot decide whether to have my baby have vit k by drops or by injection...both my other children had the drops but I cannot for the life of me remember why..

We do have a small family risk of leukaemia ..which I gather is the worry about injecting vit k ..but I just cannot make up my mind

can anyone shed anymore light on this for me ?

I believe the study that showed a small link to risk of leukemia was discredited and no other study has been able to duplicate the results. I am not a fan of injections (none of my 3 DC are vaccinated at all), but did give the vitK by injection to all three at birth, and have decided to give it again this time (due in 1 week). It is just a vitamin after all, and it didn't seem to cause my others any problems, so hopefully this one will be fine too. I considered requesting the drops but DH would rather give the injection and be done with it, so I gave in. :) HTH.

thank you .. good luck with your delivery ..

think we might do the same then ...

Good luck to you too! Hope your labour and delivery goes well. x

my dh is a pharmacist and looked into it and said the research showed the risk is with births that involve intervention, cant remember the exact reason but thats the link. So we didnt plan on having it unless there was intervention-in the end having a forceps delivery we decided ds should have it.

I went for the injection - as others have said the theoretical link to cancer has been discredited, but also I felt there was so much to think about post-birth that I didn't want to have one more thing to remember in terms of making sure I got the drops done.

Muslimah makes a good point, I also read that it is more of an issue for a newborn that has had a traumatic delivery, so you might consider that if the delivery is straightforward and baby fine, he/she may not need it? Its a hard choice because we can't really know whether it has made any difference to have it or not if baby is well and fine afterwards...

I figured it was a bit mean to inject a tiny newborn and so DD had the drops!