The delay on the cord cutting is only like 10mins, its only untill it finishes pumping the blood into baby. The cord will chang color to whitish and is noticeable. Vitamin k is good. We didnt do the eye drops. Also no vaccine for the first 1 year then space them out. Whooping cough vaccine would be a good one to get, i forget when they offer it. Get your dtap shot before the baby is born its also a tetanus shot so you can keep baby safe and get that out of the way for 10 years. Dont let them bully you or your wife. Do your research and enjoy your sleep now. Once you are a parent that shit goes away for a long time. Congratulations.
I don't trust the vitamin k. They mindlessly give it to everyone as if all kids are defective.
Vitamin K is for the rare occurance of neonate hemorrhage. It's stats-based medicine, like the eye drops. There is a study that says giving every baby vitamin k prevents x number of hemorrhages a year and the eye drops prevent x number of cases of blindness from undiagnosed gonnorrhea.
*Stats based with no conditional probabilities applied. If your mom doesn't have std's, you're not going to get blinded by gonnorrhea (or get hep b for that matter). I assume vitamin k has similar conditional probablities that aren't applied and refuse it on the grounds the medical system is lazy, corrupt, and unwilling to consider politically incorrect facts in their calculations. If the preventative treatment is automatic, I'm out.
Vitamin K is not needed otherwise it would've been given to the baby by the mom, just like every single other vitamin/nutrient. Low vitamin K is actually a good thing in the case for high mitotic activity (cell growth), like the case of a baby.
It is just another stupid meme that they try to sell.
Vitamin K is like thousands of percent higher than their body's can process. I'd just say let a child be born they way God intended.
This is good advice, uh, SpiderDick.
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