Another decision....

As Dakota's due date approaches closer and closer (6 weeks, two days) we are faced with more and more decisions. The most recent one would have to do with a vitamin K injection at birth. Vitamin K shots have been given to newborn babies in the U.S. since the 1960s and about 1 in 10,000 babies, which 90% are breastfed babies, has a vitamin K deficiency. Newborn infants routinely receive a vitamin K shot after birth in order to prevent a rare problem of bleeding into the brain weeks after birth, which happens in about 5 out of 100,000 births. The shots are generally considered harmless, although there's some controversy about a link between Vitamin K and an increased risk of childhood leukemia. In one article I read it showed a 80% increased risk of developing childhood leukemia! There is a safer way for a breastfed baby to get more vitamin K! Either the baby can be supplemented with several low oral doses of liquid vitamin K9 or the nursing mother can take vitamin K supplements daily or twice weekly for 10 weeks.


So what to do? For me doing the supplement more gradually with Dakota sounds better or me taking a vitamin K supplement; however one quick shot my be easier.... what do you guys think?