Will you be giving your newborn the vitamin K injection?

[Emmiedarling]

Just the above question really. I want to make an informed decision!

Vaccinations have saved countless lives, so how does that demonstrate that science doesn't know best? I'm very grateful for the science that has led to medical advances that have saved members of my family's lives, such as the major heart operation my father had a few years ago, or the cs that saved mine and my daughter's lives.

Leonie doesn't vaccinate her dds at all. We just have to hope like hell Mother Nature plays nicely with them and doesn't introduce them to any of her pet nasties.

I do Vit K jabs, but then I have epilepsy so have a higher risk of having a baby who has clotting issues anyway - the risk is such that I have to take Vit K tablets from week 36 until birth as an extra back up.

But that's just me, if I didn't have epilepsy I think I would probably not have Vit K at all but I haven't given it the greatest amount of thought as it's a bit pointless in my situation

Yes.
If the medical body recommends it, then yes. Medicine is complicated, I think doctors are more competent than I am to make judgements with regards to my DC's health and mine. No brainer.

Well...dd2 had an IM dose this morning after arriving 10 days ahead of my elcs date. I can report no ill effects and a beautiful baby (if I do say so myself )

Many congratulations! x

My bf reckons we shouldn't and make sure he gets it another way.
But I'd rather he had the injection and that way I don't have to worry and stress about forgetting it or something else going wrong.

I'll tell the doctor to sneak it in whilst he isnt looking (then again, I don't think he will be there on the day)

DS had it. Any future children will have, no question. The evidence is clear. Yes, it is to prevent a very rare event, but that rare event can be fatal. There are no side effects. I fail to see why you wouldn't.

(And as for people who don't vaccinate their children... Yes, Mother Nature works things out well in Sub-Saharan Africa, doesn't she? )

"sneak it in" ? you are joking about going against the wishes of your baby's father aren't you datingthedevil?

If my baby's father was suggesting something dangerous, like not putting DS in a car seat and leaving him loose in a car or not giving a proven treatment that might prevent serious disability & death, then, yes, I'd happily go against his wishes!

Yes, I am planning on going against his wishes. He hasnt read anything about it so has zero knowledge and doesnt know what he is talking about.

How do you know he hasn't read anything about it?

Not giving your baby a vitamin K injection can't be compared with the danger of not using a car seat safely.

I know because he had never heard about it before and I offered him the literature but he refused. He already has two children so you'd think he would know. But he doesn't.

He isn't a very nice person, he is abusive - verbally, financially, emotionally and more recently physically. He has also told me he doesn't love me or care about the baby. Oh and if he finds I've posted about him he will dump me.

This is something i looked into, in the end all 5 of mine had the injection.

Whilst researching it i did find out that the vernix a baby is covered with in utero and oftrn born with on its skin, is sctuslly high in vit k! So dont wipe/wash it away. I left it to soak into their skin and massaged it in gently before dressing them for the first time :)

There is vit k in breastmilk and in vernix so mother nature does provide it, i still opted for the back up of the injection as i didnt want to spend the newborn days worrying re internal bleeding.

crikey datingthedevil, I did wonder what sort of person he is based on your name. Sounds like you need a thread of your own! I was being a bit tongue in cheek before and had a feeling what your answer would be.

All mine have had vit k.
They gave drops for dd and inj for ds1 (I think they were new)
I was happy for DC 4 to have it until the MW casually mentioned a link with childhood leukaemia. Why she did that I have no bloody clue as the research had been disproved since or something and the sample small.
Once she said it I couldn't ignore it though [anger]
It caused me a lot of unnecessary stress.
I opted for the drops for dcs 4 & 5 .
Not very logical but I am not very logical when it comes to childhood leukaemia.

DS had it. Given he was an instrumental birth and had to have his blood sugar monitored, the vit K injection didn;t register.

And I wouldn't have wanted the first thing he tasted (after ambiotic fluid) to be medicine instead of milk.

There is no childhood cancer risk. That has been completely debunked.

Yep I know but once it was said, it was said.
So she shouldn't have said it.