When The Epoch Times published a story on the dramatic increase in parents refusing newborn vitamin K shots in March, readers had a comment deluge, including concerns about what is in the injection, what the real odds of a bleeding crisis are, and whether there’s a defensible explanation for babies to have low vitamin K.
Many parents, such as 37-year-old mother-of-three Courtney Jane Gackstetter, have to make decisions about vitamin K moments after giving birth. They receive inadequate information from questions they ask.
