Vitamin K

[babyface15]

Has anyone used Oral Vitamin K instead of shot? Has anyone refused Vitamin K when circumcising?

[NatureMama3]

I have no answer for your first, but on the second, I would wait at least 8 days before circumcizing, if I were going to. The baby's body will be able to care for itself by that time.

[annettemarie]

Moving to Birth and Beyond.

Additionally, please note that MDC does not host
discussions on the merits of crying it out, physical punishment, formula feeding, elective cesarean section, routine infant medical circumcision, or mandatory vaccinations. ,
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[alegna]

We refused all vit. K, but we would never consider circing.

-Angela

[babyface15]

annettemarie-sorry if I posted something I wasn't suppossed to. I'm a bit confused. I didn't ask specifically about circumcision it's self but there is a thread for that subject anyway: "The case against circumcision". Can you explain so I can be sure of the guidelines.
thanks

[annettemarie]

You can discuss the case against circumcision all you want. It's pro-routine medical circ posts we don't host. Hope that helps!

[ani'smommy]

We will not be doing the vitamin K shot, and we would never ever circumcise a baby.

[QueenOfThePride]

We're skipping vitamin K, and they'd have to kill me before I'd let anyone circumcise my babies!

[BetsyS]

When I worked as a midwife, if we had a mama that didn't want Vit K, but did want circ, we recommended that they wait at least a week before the circ. In my practice, I never saw any problems with this approach (doesn't mean it couldn't happen, but I didn't see any problems, and I would be comfortable choosing that route for my own children, were I to circ).

[Radish4ever]

We didn't do the Vit. K - I feel that God designed our bodies perfectly!

HOWEVER, I did supplement my own diet with liquid chlorophyll which is high in vitamin K, thus was transferred through breastmilk.

[Yulia_R]

Please do NOT circumcise your baby! LEARN! READ! RESEARCH!

Hi,
Congrads on your new baby! I can’t write much right now, so sorry for being brief and very straightforward.

Please do your research before you make a decision to circ! Here is The Case Against Circumcision http://www.mothering.com/discussions...splay.php?f=44
All the ladies there are very knowledgeable and helpful! Please read BEFORE you do that to your baby as there are SO MANY mothers out there that would have given anything to just take it back…but they can’t and so they live with this guilt every single day of their life!

Just to get you started here is a very good post "I'm pregnant"; some pregnant girl had posted it a while ago and she got TONS of responses with alot of good info and links. http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=604463

Also please watch video of the procedure (turn your speakers on!)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...umcision&hl=en

and you can also watch Penn and Teller, video Circumcision~Bullshit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?search=...&v=8bpPZ2p0lh0

In case you are Jewish. Jewish people do NOT have to circ! There is a whole website “Jewish against circ”. I’m from Russia and Jewish people have NEVER circ'd their boys there.

Just please don’t feel that I’m rude and pushy. I just care very much!
Yulia.

[TigerTail]

Please do not fold, spindle, or mutilate your new son. (I didn't really give a rat's patoot about vitamin K; an injection is rather a small pain compared to skinning & amputating. No offense to those who skipped it, I was saving my energy for fighting off sugar water & hepB once I got to the hospital . I did take some orally myself before planning a homebirth though.)

[LavenderMae]

I think the better question is why would you consider circumcision for your baby. Remember it's your son's penis and he should have the say when it comes to cutting parts of it off. I would skip the circ and the Vit.K. I hope you will research circ and realise there are no good reasons to remove an important and vital part of your son's body!!

[tamagotchi]

Originally Posted by Yulia_R

In case you are Jewish. Jewish people do NOT have to circ! There is a whole website “Jewish against circ”. I’m from Russia and Jewish people have NEVER circ'd their boys there.

Hi Yulia, not to argue with your main point, but it isn't true that Russian Jews never circ'd. My DH is Russian Jewish, and his generation was mostly not circ'd, but previous generations in his family were more religious and were definitely circ'd. Many (most?) prewar Russian Jews were more religious and lived in small communities where they were able to practice their religion. As I understand it, there was a big difference between the prewar and postwar generations in that regard.

[Yulia_R]

Vit K

http://www.hpakids.org/holistic-heal...-K-in-Newborns

...Injected vitamin K ran into a problem when researchers in 1990 noted an increased incidence of childhood cancer in children given vitamin K injections at birth. Specifically, they found that injected vitamin K doubled the incidence of leukemia in children less than ten years of age. A subsequent study in 1992 revealed the same association between injected vitamin K and cancer, but no such association with oral vitamin K. These researchers recommended exclusive use of oral vitamin K...

[Yulia_R]

Originally Posted by tamagotchi

Hi Yulia, not to argue with your main point, but it isn't true that Russian Jews never circ'd. My DH is Russian Jewish, and his generation was mostly not circ'd, but previous generations in his family were more religious and were definitely circ'd. Many (most?) prewar Russian Jews were more religious and lived in small communities where they were able to practice their religion. As I understand it, there was a big difference between the prewar and postwar generations in that regard.

I think it is true, at least for most part. I have NEVER heard of anyone circ (of course I had plenty of girls chats with my friends, like any other girl) and have never heard of ANYONE being circ.
So, we had this argument with my dh who is from Israel and was sure that Jewish people circ all over the world. So I told him to ask:
1. His dad who was living in russia for many years during WWII and after that.
2. His best friend who is director of a large company in Israel who has plenty of russian jewish artists working for him.

So dh did ask and to his surprise both have confirmed that I was right.
yulia.

[TigerTail]

I'm not at all pro-K injection, but serious researchers would include cites for that 'more cancer' thing. (It's a little fear-mongering, if you can't back it up- imagine how many women that birthed in a hospital here have already done it & can't change it.)

If it's true, people definitely should know. If it's a homeopath saying it on his site without backing it up, well... I don't like to see our assertions so easily laughed off by anybody who requires proof. There are bad studies, but it's hard to tell if they aren't even quoted!

[NatureMama3]

here is an analysis on vitamin K administration that includes both the risk factors and causes of VKBD and the effects of routine administration vitamin K.

http://www.babyreference.com/VitaminKinjectORnot.htm

it has references for studies on both sides of the coin.

[Rhiannon Feimorgan]

I just have to chime in and add to those who hope you will do some reserch on circumcision. Take the whole baby home!

[tamagotchi]

Originally Posted by Yulia_R

I think it is true, at least for most part. I have NEVER heard of anyone circ (of course I had plenty of girls chats with my friends, like any other girl) and have never heard of ANYONE being circ.

I know this is OT for this thread, but ... Again, you're talking about postwar generations of Russian Jews who for the most part are indeed not circ'd. I have plenty of experience with them too so I know what you mean. It would be difficult to find a Jew born in Russia younger than 65 or so who was circ'd as a baby.

It's the prewar generations, like DH's dad (who is 68) and older generations, who were generally circ'd. According to DH's dad and other older men I've talked to, in his youth you could tell who was a Jew and who wasn't by whether they were circ'd, and during pogroms it's said that sometimes that was the way they'd decide who to shoot (by having all the men pull their pants down). DH's dad says that was the main reason that Russian Jews, like his family, stopped circing in the postwar period, because they were afraid of future pogroms where they would be killed because of that. I've read elsewhere that the decline in circ among Russian Jews at that time was due to the "forced assimilation" during the 20s and 30s in which Russian Jews were pretty much forced to stop practicing their religion.

Here is a link with some history of Russian Jews. Earlier generations were for the most part very religious, "ruling themselves according to halakha" (Jewish Law). Later generations were almost completely secular, not following Jewish Law or custom at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...e_Soviet_Union