Newborn injections.

Vitamin K. There is a trend going on now where Moms are rejecting Vitamin K given at birth . Vitamin K helps the clotting factor in newborns. A year ago we received an infant whose mother thought it would not be a good idea to give vitamin k to her perfectly healthy newborn as she planned to breastfeed the infant. When the infant was a week old, it developed a brain bleed that bled out through the fontanells and turned the child into an alien head. We spent months and months trying to keep this child alive. The infant was very critical and had several urgent life saving measures. Eventually, the child bought a brain shunt and a G-tube and we sent the now severely brain damaged, crippled child home. The infant spent the first 7 months of life inside a hospital. All of that because Mom thought that her baby did not need a vitamin k shot. Be very careful when playing doctor with your baby.

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Permalink Reply by Almasy on April 18, 2012 at 10:22pm

And that's why women should make damn sure that they're getting the nutrients they need when breastfeeding...

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Permalink Reply by Georgia on April 18, 2012 at 11:14pm

Just because you see one case with one baby or even a few does not mean you need to scaremonger mothers and idolise doctors. Doctors make bad decisions every day all around the world that leave people dead or disabled or severley impaired or ill. None of my children have had vit K injections and all live to tell the tale.

How was the child born? Any interventions by doctors? What was the mothers health/diet like? Blanket statements about what we all should do are useless at best and dangerous at worst. I was made severely ill in my early twenties by doctors and their "knowledge" and if I had entrusted an obstetritian with my pregnancy care I would have had all three cut out of me cos I labour for longer than they will "allow", instead I had all three vaginally at home in my own time.

What happened to that bub is tragic and sad, but let's not turn it into a crusade.

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Permalink Reply by Georgia on April 18, 2012 at 11:19pm

Oh, and before doctors came along to manage births and heroically jab all our babies with vitamin k, where did women and babies get their vit K from...greens. So a better suggestion would be to tell all women wanting to avoid jabbing their new born babies, to eat lots of greens and breastfeeding and birth naturally in an emotionally safe birthing environment with a supportive midwife so that they are likely to have an intervention free birth so the bub is at less risk of damage from a doctor that causes a bleed.

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Permalink Reply by Lovely Lauren on April 19, 2012 at 1:02am

And who are you? Don't talk to Myca that way. Scaremongering mothers? That is exactly what everyone else on here is doing when they speak against vaccinating.

Telling me that it causes autism and auto-immune disease, and neurological disorders, and to get your child vaccinated is a threat to health and well being.

So what if I don't because of your advice and then my baby gets really sick? It must be something I did wrong? That's a very bold statement. Or it's something the doctor's did wrong by intervening? Well, actually, the doctors wanted to give the vit k shot to the baby but it was refused. So it wasn't the doctors making mistakes.

Doctors do the best they can with the tools and knowledge they have to save peoples lives.

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Permalink Reply by Peter Csere on April 19, 2012 at 4:01am

Natural hygiene theory of disease.

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Permalink Reply by Morgan on April 22, 2012 at 6:45pm

'Doctors do the best they can with the tools and knowledge they have to save peoples lives.'

Wow.. Lovely Lauren, you have lots to learn about 'doctors.'

I've had a lifetime full of negative experiences with them. I am surprised that you haven't.

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Permalink Reply by Morgan on April 22, 2012 at 6:42pm

Georgia,

I agree w/ all you said. Well put. Also, I think it's terrific that you had your children @ home. I had two horrible c-section deliveries and plan on having more @ home if I am able to.

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Permalink Reply by Myca on April 18, 2012 at 11:48pm

Georgia, I am not on a crusade. I am talking about a child and what the child will live with the rest of his life. I am happy for you that your experience with your three home birth went well and I am sorry that my experience offended you. I will withdraw from the forum now.

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Permalink Reply by Myca on April 18, 2012 at 11:43pm

You are banking a lot on breastfeeding providing vitamin k. First, that the mom will produce it. Second, that she will produce enough, third, that the infant will absorb it. Take the gamble if you wish. Our mom was well educated. Not her first.interesting the reaction to vitamin k when so many people here don't mind taking B12.
Vitamin K is one of the most benign things out there. We have more and more moms spending a lot of time on the internet and in groups before birth. I used to be thrilled when they understood what I was talking about. Not so much anymore. It was very difficult to watch this kid with his huge swollen head and completely devastated brain seize for hours on end. The codes we did. The blood and platelets we poured in. Knowing the first week of his life, he was perfectly fine. "Jabbed" ? A needle stick was nothing to what this kid suffered and will continue to suffer. I brought this up as a information for those who are open to hearing about reasons why vitamin k is given. It is your choice to close your mind to it.

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Permalink Reply by Lala M. Apples on April 19, 2012 at 12:23am

I don't think you should leave the forum based on this discussion. :-) You are only trying to help people based on something you are passionate for. With so many people on one forum there are bound to be many many many different thoughts about any 1 given issue

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Permalink Reply by Lovely Lauren on April 19, 2012 at 12:44am

Myca don't leave!!!!! =(

I appreciate this information so much.

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Permalink Reply by Peter Csere on April 19, 2012 at 12:51am

Big resounding lol.

I'm pretty sure that if infants required vitamin K shots at birth, the human race would not have survived this long.

However, I'm sure many SAD babies born to SAD moms in hospitals would die without vitamin K shots.

So if you are unhealthy, living an unhealthy lifestyle, and giving birth in a hospital which actually raises the risks of complications because of over-intervention, you should give your baby a vitamin K shot or it will likely die.