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#TIL.
So (at least in my journey) this was literally the only thing that both the top MDs and nurses, and the hippie midwives and doulas, all agreed on… this being the family’s choice.
Having said that I do everything scientists tell me to do and gave him all the fucking shots. But the K thing is a dicey hill to die on
It’s peoples choice, but when lots of people are choosing to take a needless risk (even if small) that says something about society and the information environment that they’re embedded in.
Tragic, but probably for the best.
this is a pretty poetic counterpoint to people who think Idiocracy is prophetic. nature doesn’t give a fuck about what you think or how you feel, it is what it is. being an ignorant fucking moron meant death for the majority of human history, either for you, or as in this case your children. there’s a large evolutionary pressure for humans to be intelligent and well educated, and the worse things get the more that will be true.
Evolutionary pressure has basically gone away since the birth of agriculture and modern medicine was the final blow
— are declining the single, inexpensive injection given at birth to newborns to help their blood clot.
Aren’t you suppose to prevent blood clots?
You want to clot so you don’t bleed to death. You don’t want clots floating around in your arteries because they can block something important
Ah I see, I’ve been meaning to take a first aid course and learn a little about hemorrhages. Thanks for the knowledge.
Makes me feel like a piece of shit saying it, but those kids are probably better off dead rather than being raised in an antivaxxer household where they’re going to be indoctrinated with all that idiotic bullshit, forced to attend “parties” with diseased kids to intentionally catch their illnesses, probably have no chance at higher education thanks to shitty religious based homeschooling, take a bunch of quack medicine when they are ill ranging from useless to actively harmful, and possibly experience permanent damage from a preventable disease. Just seems like a lifetime of needless suffering.
You never know, I was raised evangelical and Ive managed to have a good life once I got out of there.
seen alot of those stories yt, ultra conservative people leaivng thier bubble and flourishing, but i wish they actually come out and say its evangelical,christanity instead of trying to obfuscate what thier saying.
I have four natural born kids and all of them had their Vitamin K shots, and I would do it again in a heartbeat. I trust my doctors’ recommendations on what course of action is best, knowing that there are risks and benefits to any medical treatment, and we do these treatments because the benefits outweigh the risks.
With that said, the article doesn’t mention that the risk of the vitamin K shot is that the newborn’s bilirubin levels can be raised far enough that they have to be treated for it. One of my daughters had to be blindfolded and put under a very bright blue light for several hours or maybe it was overnight, which is not a nice thing to see your newborn go through.
But it is surely better than seeing them bleed to death.
One of my daughters had to be blindfolded and put under a very bright blue light for several hours or maybe it was overnight, which is not a nice thing to see your newborn go through.
Completely painless and done every single day in any NICU.
Isn’t this for Jaundice? Or just happens to be the same cure? Anyway my baby went through the blue light special for jaundice - the worst part was having to be in the hospital longer
High bilirubin levels are the indicator for jaundice, so yeah, same thing
The blue light turns breaks down bilirubin as livers not yet active in some newborns to do this. It’s an amazing therapy without drugs.
An HHS spokesperson did not respond to questions but in an email blamed the administration of former President Joe Biden for the rise in parents rejecting vitamin K shots. “Vitamin K at birth,” the spokesperson added, “remains the standard of care.”
For fuck’s sake. These assholes can’t even take responsibility for the results of what they’re spewing.
Why did Joe Biden eat all of the vitamin k?
“party of personal responsibility”
It’s all projection.
Seriously!!!
Remember when most of their grievances were about an overreaching government that dictated how they lived their lives? Now that their party is in power that’s all they want to fucking do to the rest of us.
How does ‘personal responsibility’ translate into ‘I don’t want this and you shouldn’t have it either’?
Do you have a Justin Trudeau version for Canada.
Sorry, I was too busy being jealous of how much better he was than our president
Seriously, wtf was wrong with that guy?
At what point do we just turn it into the new “Thanks Obama” meme? I feel like at a certain point, embracing it as a joke is the only way to get them to stop using it as an excuse. Because as long as they can say it and be taken seriously, they’ll continue using it.
As far as I’m concerned “Thanks Obama” already captures it.
Right? At least those kids are being spared any further neglect and abuse.
Yep. Sucks to be born just do die of preventable illiness but that’s literally evolution. Maybe the reason the world sucks so much is because we put up bumper rails and allow the weak to survive.
If you ask any right wing smooth brain they’d agree, they’re not smart enough to recognize it’s them that lose.
Exactly, being born to idiots is a rough existence anyway, those kids got spared
I was wondering when the MAHA vaccine fixation would bleed over to simply anything that comes from a needle.
This is horrific.
The part of me traumatized by our society drives my cynical obtrusive thought: this will cull some of the stupid genes from the pool.
Maybe idiocracy is not inevitable. Maybe the stupid, selfish,fear-consumed will remove themselves from the healthier parts of humanity. Too bad I won’t be around for the better world.
This is society healing itself of modernity and returning to its natural form. Soon the average lifespan shall once again be a healthy 25, just as Mother Gaia intended.
At this point I am much worried about the future effect of evil bloodlines then of stupid ones.
They do often go hand in hand, granted, but there are some wonderful stupid and/or mentally handicapped folks out there.
I don’t believe in evil bloodlines, except in genetics that cause a predisposition to sociopathy. Even those people can learn to have empathy with intervention.
The absolute numbers are still very low, and these folks tend to have more babies overall, so I don’t think there’s much silver lining here, even a grim one. They’re just accepting higher infant mortality for no good reason because they don’t understand statistics or that evolution doesn’t care about “perfect” or about any individual baby (or anything else of course, because it’s just a biological principle, but you take my meaning).
You have to work with who gets born and just try to bring as much critical thinking and empathy into the world as you can. If anything “good” will come of this, it will be as cautionary tales parents and doctors tell pregnant people.
Even worse, they’re accepting infant mortality because “master white race” and fear of being the minority in 2045.
I swear there’s a non-trivial percentage of new parents who simply want any excuse not to see their babies get poked with a needle and start crying. Combine that with the other MAHA, Jesus, and/or Woo nonsense, and especially with a fundamental misunderstanding of how much infant mortality the human population can absorb and still be evolutionarily “successful,” and you get stories like this one.
You’re giving them way too much credit. It’s as simple as what a credentialed authority figure says must be part of some agenda but what a whatsapp/FB post or contrarian podcaster/blogger says is good and credible.
I had my son get all his vaccinations on schedule. Even though he’d cry and skitter around the room like a cat when they came in the room with a needle.
Next few times he got over it and eventually it didn’t even bother him to get poked anymore.
I know it’s terrible to see as a parent and comforting them sometimes doesn’t work. You can’t walk out of there just giving up. Shots really suck when you are little, but they are much better than dying from the diseases they prevent.
Some of the most successful pediatricians I’ve seen will poke the baby with the closed syringe several times before and after administering the shot. So that the babies get poked with it non-painfully more times and they get poked with it painfully. From what I’ve seen it seems to work.
Its like innoculating them to vaccinefear
You know, if these parents believe they know better than medical professionals, why are they going to a medical facility to have their babies anyway? I feel it is just a waste of resources. Medical staff are stretched pretty thin already. Why waste time on people that will just ignore professional advice? Let them deal on their own, they obviously know better.
This is the fault of the US healthcare system and not necessarily the parents. I’ve had two kids in American hospitals and it was the single most exhausting, tortuous experience of my life each time. They don’t let you rest, so your decision making is impacted, then they have over 30 injections they want to give your newborn and God forbid you want to discuss any of them, you must be an anti-science monster if you dare to question a single one. If the practitioners can’t express plainly what is necessary and what is superfluous? Okay so the newborn baby needs a vitamin K injection, a vitamin their body will make on its own in a few days, to stop brain bleeds? And why is my newborn at risk of a brain bleed? Something to do with the constant stream of injections you’re giving them? Or maybe the cuts? Oh because of the jaundice? Well if you would allow parents to get their children any kind of natural light maybe that wouldn’t be an issue, but instead we’re being held hostage here until you are satisfied that you’ve solved every issue you create.
You can all sit behind your keyboards judging the sleep deprived new parents who are being misled and taken advantage of by the healthcare industry, and act like they don’t deserve to procreate, but like any other issue there is a lot more nuance to the problem than just “American dumb”
sigh I knew alekwithak’s comment would get misinterpreted and downvoted.
FFS, the negative reaction against the stream of “unreasonable” questions posed above is exactly the problem. A question is asked of a professional warrants a clear compassionate response, not prejudice and derision.
Yes, the single aspect of Vitamin K1 injections/oral for neonates is highly effective uncontroversial science based medicine, but one needs to remember the context: so much of what parents are pushed to do medically around pregnancy and childbirth in a hospital-based birth is controversial and questionable, and in many cases the norms pushed by hospitals have evidence against them yet are still pushed by that system (for example: GBS testing & prophylactic antibiotics, gestational diabetes testing, routine induction before 42-43 weeks, continuous electronic fetal monitoring, circumcision).
In any case, prophylactic vitamin K1 can be offered orally if the parent is averse to shots for the newborn, sidestepping much of the perceived issue. It’s unconsciable that this is not offered in some places (USA).
My mas a nurse and had them skip the HPV when I was born vaccine because it was spanky new and had some issues at the time and its not like if be exposed hepatitis any time soon. Claimed religious reasons, which is funny because she knew the Dr, and he knew it was BS.
That being said 12 years later in middle school they she signed the sheet for me to get it no fuss.
She ain’t anti-science, just doesn’t trust systematic organizations not to test shit on poor people.
She was also adamant about getting covid shots early because also has an understanding of risk vs reward, but advised to avoid J&J for obv reasons.
There are greater risks to using sunlight to treat newborn jaundice than to use the blue lights hospitals provide.
From that link:
Why Sunlight is Risky
While sunshine does contain blue light, relying on it to help jaundice in newborns comes with significant risks:
- Unpredictable Light Intensity: The amount of blue light in sunlight varies depending on the time of day, weather conditions, and location. This makes it difficult to ensure the baby receives a consistent and therapeutic dose.
- Sunburn Risk: Newborns have very sensitive skin that burns easily. Even brief exposure to direct sunlight can cause sunburn, increasing the risk of skin damage and potentially skin cancer later in life.
- Overheating and Dehydration: Sunlight can quickly overheat a baby, leading to dehydration and other serious complications.
- Difficulty Monitoring: It’s difficult to accurately monitor a baby’s bilirubin levels while using sunlight as treatment. Medical phototherapy allows healthcare professionals to closely monitor levels and adjust treatment as needed.
On the flip side, the potential side effects of the hospital blue light treatment include mild “skin rash, diarrhea, or dehydration,” which are usually temporary and resolve on their own after treatment. I’d rather a baby get a mild skin rash that goes away after being taken out of the light, than get sunburn that takes weeks to heal from and can increase the risk of cancer.
Having a new baby is stressful, I get it. But it takes nearly 9 months for the baby to arrive. Is that not enough time for new parents to learn about the medical treatments their baby will receive?
30 injections to newborns? Im calling bullshit on that.
The us is getting more dumberer.
there is no bottom for these dumberikkklans
wHaTs ThE hArM iN My BeLiEfS???
party of pro-life?
