Vitamin K

[Guest guest]

I just read this on ivillage.com:

 

" In the US, Canada, Great Britain, and many other countries, all

newborns receive vitamin K injections to prevent the possibility of

hemorrhage (particularly in the brain) just after delivery. Newborns are

at risk for bleeding in the brain because of the trauma of coming

through the birth canal during delivery. Vitamin K is not readily

transferred from mother to child during pregnancy. Therefore, even

though vitamin K deficiency in the newborn is very rare, it is

considered sufficiently dangerous to warrant these measures. Newborns at

greatest risk for vitamin K deficiency are those who are born

prematurely or whose mother had to take seizure medications during the

pregnancy. Mothers on seizure medications are often given oral vitamin K

for 2 weeks prior to delivery. "

 

If Vitamin K isn't provided to the newborn through the placenta and if

breast milk is low in it, doesn't that maybe mean that that's how nature

designed it? Also, what's the opinion on Vitamin D supplements for

breast-fed infants?

 

ILANA xoxo