I have a question about vitamin K.

We would like our baby to have vitamin K after birth.

But I am confused about the benefits of having it given orally as opposed to an injection.

OK, injections are bad. But so is having a nasty bad taste in your mouth. It seems to me that this might mess up with baby's taste and sense of smell and therefore with her ability to breastfeed right away.

What do you think? Am I missing something here?

Thanks!

Edit: mods, I realised right after posting (typical) that this should be in the "3rd and 4th stage" board. Please move it there, if you don't mind. Sorry for the inconvenience.