The way things are going I am of the opinion that it is safest to avoid all health professionals and have your baby in private at home without interference.
My children are grown and I have adult grandchildren at this point. If I were to do it again, I would have a home birth. Staying out of the hospital has always been a goal, and at this point, it's essential.
This was much needed! Thank you. I’m a birth worker and I get questions about the Vit K shot all the time. I’ve been doing a deep dive and your article came right on time.
Thank you. This is a post worth saving for the coming years when I will be having children and trying not to mess up (to the best of my knowledge and ability)
Thank you so much for commenting. You are exactly my target audience and it makes my heart swell to know that my work has reached you and may help you in the future. Please keep researching. <3
Maybe the normally low levels of K at birth would help the cord stem cells make their way through the newborn.
It would make so much more sense to offer the vitamin K supplementation to those who are at high risk, rather than imposing it on everyone. But then, that's not the mindset of public health.
'Viewing this as a design flaw (during the era when it was deeply believed that Nature was faulty and needed to be improved upon), modern medicine quickly came up with a solution...'
Is it too much too hope that modern medicine will someday start respecting evolution?
My daughter just gave birth a month ago. Unfortunately she risked out of the home birth she had planned and had to have a hospital C section 3.5 weeks early. I had passed on info of the k shot risks and bought her the drops. The hospital neonatologist tried to tell us there was some question on how much of the oral drops actually got absorbed and they still recommend the shot. Oh how I would have loved to give her a print out of the Danish study! My daughter said no thank you! She also said NO to the HepB. That baby never her left her for one second. She has also found a pediatrician through her midwife, who, so far, is respecting her wishes to not give any vaccines. Thank you for all your well researched information.
THANK YOU for this. I can share it with my daughter who is pregnant with her first baby. I didn't investigate the Vitamin K shot like I did vaccines when she was born. All my kids received it. All my kids had a little jaundice, now I know why.
She was unvaccinated until she became an adult. Very healthy. Then, she received 8 vaccines over the course of one year in order to become a Registered Nurse. She was diagnosed with hypothyroidism at age 19. I warned her of the risks but it was her choice.
She will not vaccinate her baby. I encouraged her to learn more about Vitamin K, so this is perfect. Thank you again!
Maybe the fact that I was born 77 years ago, before modern medicine began its assault on patient health, ex;plains why I am active, healthy, and possessed of sound mind today.
Informed consent is so important so I’m glad you mentioned how vitamin k might prevent stem cells from reaching the areas they need to, since it thickens the baby’s blood when God didn’t design it to be this way (along with all the other harmful ingredients it contains)!
Some more information pertaining to the actual risk of bleeding:
Vitamin K deficiency bleeding risk is very uncommon - 1 in 11,000 or 6 per 100,000 of untreated infants will develop this. Additionally, there’s two different types of vitamin K deficiency bleeding:
1) Early onset vitamin k dependent bleeding - mostly seen in mothers on anticoagulation, anticonvulsants, or antibiotics.
*note: if you’re delivering in a hospital and GBS positive, you will probably be given antibiotics. This is why it’s a good idea to test before the hospital, and if you test positive GBS, use lactobacillus rhamnosus vaginally for 10 days along with a good spore based probiotic (saccharomyces boulardii) orally, then chances are when you retest you'll be negative as it's highly effective. In the hospital, they typically won’t retest. So it helps to be proactive. Even if you’re planning on a home birth it’s helpful to follow this protocol in case you need a hospital transfer for emergencies or maternal exhaustion.
2) Late onset vitamin k dependent bleeding - occurs between 2-12 weeks of life, risk factors are diarrhea, hepatitis, cystic fibrosis, celiac disease Alpha 1-Tryptophan deficiency
Obviously most people don’t have any of these risk factors, and even if they do, the actual risk is still very low. But everyone should know this to decide though informed decision making rather than through coercion or peer pressure, as is typically the case, especially when they pull the “dead baby” card 🙄
I’m not convinced that giving newborns a vitamin K injection is something where the benefits outweigh the risks. Wouldn’t it be a better idea to test a baby to see is s/he actually is at risk for the bleeding, and THEN decide if vit K supplementation would be necessary? I find it hard to believe that nature isn’t supplying adequate Vitamin K levels to healthy newborns who don’t have the identified risk factors.
Thanks for the article! I was curious if you’ve come across anything that talks about oral vit k NOT causing the increase in cellular response like the injection does? Or does the oral do the same thing? The Denmark studies show good results with the oral-yay! But that doesn’t tell me if the effects are the same as injection-does that make sense?
The way things are going I am of the opinion that it is safest to avoid all health professionals and have your baby in private at home without interference.
My children are grown and I have adult grandchildren at this point. If I were to do it again, I would have a home birth. Staying out of the hospital has always been a goal, and at this point, it's essential.
Wow thank you
I feel we should always get all our products information before deciding wether to use it
Seems common sense
This was much needed! Thank you. I’m a birth worker and I get questions about the Vit K shot all the time. I’ve been doing a deep dive and your article came right on time.
I'm so glad to know that the timing was right and the information is helpful! Thanks so much for the positive feedback and the restack!
Of course! I’m so happy I came across your Substack! Looking forward to more.
Thank you. This is a post worth saving for the coming years when I will be having children and trying not to mess up (to the best of my knowledge and ability)
Thank you so much for commenting. You are exactly my target audience and it makes my heart swell to know that my work has reached you and may help you in the future. Please keep researching. <3
I had no idea.
Maybe the normally low levels of K at birth would help the cord stem cells make their way through the newborn.
It would make so much more sense to offer the vitamin K supplementation to those who are at high risk, rather than imposing it on everyone. But then, that's not the mindset of public health.
'Viewing this as a design flaw (during the era when it was deeply believed that Nature was faulty and needed to be improved upon), modern medicine quickly came up with a solution...'
Is it too much too hope that modern medicine will someday start respecting evolution?
My daughter just gave birth a month ago. Unfortunately she risked out of the home birth she had planned and had to have a hospital C section 3.5 weeks early. I had passed on info of the k shot risks and bought her the drops. The hospital neonatologist tried to tell us there was some question on how much of the oral drops actually got absorbed and they still recommend the shot. Oh how I would have loved to give her a print out of the Danish study! My daughter said no thank you! She also said NO to the HepB. That baby never her left her for one second. She has also found a pediatrician through her midwife, who, so far, is respecting her wishes to not give any vaccines. Thank you for all your well researched information.
THANK YOU for this. I can share it with my daughter who is pregnant with her first baby. I didn't investigate the Vitamin K shot like I did vaccines when she was born. All my kids received it. All my kids had a little jaundice, now I know why.
She was unvaccinated until she became an adult. Very healthy. Then, she received 8 vaccines over the course of one year in order to become a Registered Nurse. She was diagnosed with hypothyroidism at age 19. I warned her of the risks but it was her choice.
She will not vaccinate her baby. I encouraged her to learn more about Vitamin K, so this is perfect. Thank you again!
Maybe the fact that I was born 77 years ago, before modern medicine began its assault on patient health, ex;plains why I am active, healthy, and possessed of sound mind today.
Informed consent is so important so I’m glad you mentioned how vitamin k might prevent stem cells from reaching the areas they need to, since it thickens the baby’s blood when God didn’t design it to be this way (along with all the other harmful ingredients it contains)!
Some more information pertaining to the actual risk of bleeding:
Vitamin K deficiency bleeding risk is very uncommon - 1 in 11,000 or 6 per 100,000 of untreated infants will develop this. Additionally, there’s two different types of vitamin K deficiency bleeding:
1) Early onset vitamin k dependent bleeding - mostly seen in mothers on anticoagulation, anticonvulsants, or antibiotics.
*note: if you’re delivering in a hospital and GBS positive, you will probably be given antibiotics. This is why it’s a good idea to test before the hospital, and if you test positive GBS, use lactobacillus rhamnosus vaginally for 10 days along with a good spore based probiotic (saccharomyces boulardii) orally, then chances are when you retest you'll be negative as it's highly effective. In the hospital, they typically won’t retest. So it helps to be proactive. Even if you’re planning on a home birth it’s helpful to follow this protocol in case you need a hospital transfer for emergencies or maternal exhaustion.
2) Late onset vitamin k dependent bleeding - occurs between 2-12 weeks of life, risk factors are diarrhea, hepatitis, cystic fibrosis, celiac disease Alpha 1-Tryptophan deficiency
Obviously most people don’t have any of these risk factors, and even if they do, the actual risk is still very low. But everyone should know this to decide though informed decision making rather than through coercion or peer pressure, as is typically the case, especially when they pull the “dead baby” card 🙄
I’m not convinced that giving newborns a vitamin K injection is something where the benefits outweigh the risks. Wouldn’t it be a better idea to test a baby to see is s/he actually is at risk for the bleeding, and THEN decide if vit K supplementation would be necessary? I find it hard to believe that nature isn’t supplying adequate Vitamin K levels to healthy newborns who don’t have the identified risk factors.
Seems you can't even get k1 drops in Canada. Only k2. That tells me it must work
I would not think that hospital would not do as the new mum wants. Lol
My child was born November 1975, in a military hospital. Does this mean she was given a vitamin K injection without my knowledge?
Thanks for the article! I was curious if you’ve come across anything that talks about oral vit k NOT causing the increase in cellular response like the injection does? Or does the oral do the same thing? The Denmark studies show good results with the oral-yay! But that doesn’t tell me if the effects are the same as injection-does that make sense?