I'm doing doing up my birth preferences to give to my ob/midwives at the moment and was going to go with the vitamin K injection. DD had it almost immediately after birth and I just never thought not to do it. Anything to protect my baby, no matter how small the chances of complications.
Having now read this thread, I might change my mind about it if we have another 'normal' birth. The link to childhood cancer is alarming to say the least.
Will have to give this some thought and maybe get DH to read this.
****ETA: Just reading some info from my ob about this. He says the condition affects 1:100 babies and he recommends the injection as the effectiveness of the oral dose is a bit uncertain.
Last edited by Willow; August 31st, 2007 at 03:03 PM.
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