Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

[Coventina]

They entered the world the way babies should, with piercing cries announcing their arrival. They passed their newborn screening tests. Some made it to their 2-week wellness visits without concern.

Then, without warning, their systems began to shut down. A 7-week-old boy in Maryland developed sudden seizures. An 11-pound girl in Alabama stopped breathing for 20 seconds at a time. A baby boy in Kentucky vomited before becoming lethargic. A brown-haired girl in Texas, not yet 2 weeks old, bled around her belly button.

Desperate to save them, records show, doctors inserted tubes into their airways and hooked them up to IVs. They ordered blood transfusions. They spent half an hour trying to resuscitate one boy until his parents told them they could stop. They shaved another boy’s soft locks to embed a needle directly into his skull to reduce the pressure in his brain.

None of it was enough.

At the morgue, the babies were brought in with their diapers and blankets and with their hospital ID bracelets still wrapped around their tiny ankles. The pathologists’ findings were like those you would typically see in ailing adults, not newborns — the kind of bleeding seen during strokes or brain tissue loss similar to what happens when radiation is administered to treat cancer.

https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns

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[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. "Some families are also rejecting the eye ointment."

In December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped recommending that all newborns get the hepatitis B vaccine, which has been highly effective at fighting a virus that can lead to lifelong infections and liver cancer. A federal judge in March temporarily blocked the revised childhood vaccination schedule that included that recommendation. Some families are also rejecting the eye ointment.

Two weeks ago, at a House subcommittee hearing, Rep. Kim Schrier, D-Wash., pressed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reassure parents that the vitamin K shot is safe. He refused and pushed back.

[Traildogbob]

2. Post womb

The love of life ends.

[Skittles]

7. to be fair, they don't give a fuck about fetuses either

it is all about control

[RockRaven]

3. I want to say this as clearly as I can: declining Vit K and Hep B vaccines is evil.

It is morally wrong.

If you do that, you are a bad person doing a bad thing.

Yes, I am judging you and saying that, yes, you have done wrong, you have hurt someone.

And to any who reply "but my kid turned out fine, so there" I will say that purposely exposing a child to a hazard, an avoidable hazard, of increased chances of irreversible injury, disability, and death is a harm. You are not clairvoyant and did not know what the ultimate clinical outcome would be, yet you chose the path of hazard for a child. Not your own hazard, hazard for a dependent child. Shame on you.

[Attilatheblond]

5. Wondering what the Venn Diagram of people who declining the shots and people against reproductive choices

looks like. Guessing there is a lot of overlap.

[mercuryblues]

6. Well at least they didn't have an abortion.

[riversedge]

4. ...The pathologists' findings were like those you would typically see in ailing adults, not newborns --the kind of bleedi

.............The pathologists’ findings were like those you would typically see in ailing adults, not newborns — the kind of bleeding seen during strokes or brain tissue loss similar to what happens when radiation is administered to treat cancer.