Hi all. I have 2 un-vaxed kiddos and am 28 wks along with #3. The first 2 births were in another state and we were able to birth at a birthing center. However, I had blood pressure with both and now have moved to another state where the birthing centers have "risked" me out. So, this will be our first hospital birth. We are going to the most natural friendly hospital in the area and are with a group of hospital midwives. We've already covered our basis that we wouldn't be having CPS called on us for not doing vit k, hep b, eye gunk, ect.
So, I've asked around (friends, chiro,midwife, looking on this site) and the only non-vaxing pedi practice in the area is now requiring Vit K at birth or they won't accept you. We obviously have to have a pedi sign off on the baby at a hospital and I do typically keep to the first year WBV even though we don't vax but to check baby, build a relationship with pedi, ect. I asked the receptionist and she confirmed that oral Vit K would be okay. But, I'm not sure how this would be verified since it would be something *we* would do and not the hospital.
In this situation what would you do? I feel like my hands are tied b/c all the other docs in the area would require vax before "allowing" us to be patients. But, unless we had a true reason we wouldn't do the Vit K...
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