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Skim the patient.

Yeah.

Okay, vitamin K injections for newborns.

Okay, moms, I get it.

It's scary when someone comes out with a needle and your baby's just been born.

They've swallowed her and put her on the warmer and then incomes the nurse with a needle

saying, I'm going to give her an injection of vitamin K.

And people freak out because our natural inclination is to defend our child.

And more and more recently, parents have been declining the vitamin K injection for newborns.

And in Nashville in 2014, this led to disaster.

Four children had bleeds due to vitamin K deficiency.

In parents would refuse this life-saving treatment.

Now I want to tell you what vitamin K does, why we give it and why you should give it.

Because it's crucial to potentially save your child's life or save them from permanent

disability.

Vitamin K is necessary for humans.

We need it to clot our blood.

And it turns out we can only get it from leafy green vegetables or to a smaller degree

from intestinal bacteria that synthesize it.

Now, children, newborn babies have very low levels of it.

Why?

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