vitamin K - oral or injection?

amandas · Sep 15th, 2009, 06:55 AM

Just wondered what people's plans are for giving their babies vitamin k? I've been reading up online and am erring towards requesting the oral dose rather than the injection, but am not really sure. What are you all going to request?

duffers · Sep 15th, 2009, 07:00 AM

I believe that the injection has been shown to be perfectly safe. However, we are going with the oral drops unless baby has a particuarly traumatic time during the birth.

MummyToAmberx · Sep 15th, 2009, 07:15 AM

Never got the option was drops

Chaos · Sep 15th, 2009, 07:23 AM

We're not doing it at all. Drops aint really an option in the USA for some reason.
I intend on breast feeding. This is an inter muscular injection and I don't want her in pain and upset when we're trying to establish that first feed. I know the needle aint much to us grown adults, but this is a baby with uber sensitive skin and a brand new nervous system.
We spoke in depth with the pediatrician about this and she said it's more important for the boys who are being circumcised straight after birth, to have it.

Kte · Sep 15th, 2009, 08:24 AM

Where would you find out ~ or is it something you would just stipulate in the birth plan?

MrsO29 · Sep 15th, 2009, 08:42 AM

Just the injection, same as with dd.

Dream.A.Dream · Sep 15th, 2009, 09:21 AM

I'm going to be keeping an eye on this, I got a leaflet about this when I was 9 weeks and have been thinking about it a lot but still can't decide what to do xx

firegal · Sep 15th, 2009, 09:30 AM

My birth plan currently says that I want to give my LO oral vit K. The injection just seems unnecessarily full-on to me.

purpledahlia · Sep 15th, 2009, 09:55 AM

Why do babies need it?

lalitas charm · Sep 15th, 2009, 10:02 AM

I'm going with the injection, it will be over and done with in one go rather than having to be administered a few times. Also was told by MW that injection was more effective.

I think that baby will have been through enough being born that having a little injection will not phase her too much.

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duffers Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: London Posts: 305	I believe that the injection has been shown to be perfectly safe. However, we are going with the oral drops unless baby has a particuarly traumatic time during the birth.

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MummyToAmberx Mum (Mom) BnB Elite Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Wolverhampton Posts: 11,184	Never got the option was drops

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Chaos Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 3,942	We're not doing it at all. Drops aint really an option in the USA for some reason. I intend on breast feeding. This is an inter muscular injection and I don't want her in pain and upset when we're trying to establish that first feed. I know the needle aint much to us grown adults, but this is a baby with uber sensitive skin and a brand new nervous system. We spoke in depth with the pediatrician about this and she said it's more important for the boys who are being circumcised straight after birth, to have it.

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Kte Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 4,533	Where would you find out ~ or is it something you would just stipulate in the birth plan?

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MrsO29 Mum (Mom) Chat Happy BnB Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Scotland Posts: 1,114	Just the injection, same as with dd.

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Dream.A.Dream Waiting To Try (WTT) BnB Elite Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: England Posts: 18,943	I'm going to be keeping an eye on this, I got a leaflet about this when I was 9 weeks and have been thinking about it a lot but still can't decide what to do xx

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firegal Mum (Mom) Chat Happy BnB Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: London Posts: 1,278	My birth plan currently says that I want to give my LO oral vit K. The injection just seems unnecessarily full-on to me.

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lalitas charm Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 3,409	I'm going with the injection, it will be over and done with in one go rather than having to be administered a few times. Also was told by MW that injection was more effective. I think that baby will have been through enough being born that having a little injection will not phase her too much.

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