Please help settle an argument with DH - Vitamin K............

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when was it first routinely offered to new borns in the UK??

When I first was training to be a midwife, all babies that were preterm of delivered by forceps got vitK and that was in 1983. It then changed to all babies getting it about 1986 as far as I can remember. That was in my unit, not necessarily in UK.

YES YES YES YES YES - that's good enough

He reckons it was still really new when DS1 had it in 2000 - YAY!

Thanks Mears - he just came upstairs (having been googling downstairs) and informed me that Vitamin K has been offered to babies in at least some hospitals in the UK for 30yrs