Showing posts with label newborn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newborn. Show all posts

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Vitamin K shots

Vitamin K at Birth:
To Inject or Not


This is another issue that has come up in my studying the early vaccinations and shots. Until I did this research, I was going to go ahead with the vitamin K.
In cooperation with a "national standard," most, if not all states have mandated that U.S. hospitals routinely administer to all newborns a synthetic, fat-soluble vitamin K injection (generic name phytonadione) that exceeds an infant’s recommended daily dietary intake of the vitamin by 100 times.
Peer reviewed journals have linked large doses of vitamin K to childhood cancers and leukemia. Animal studies have linked large doses of vitamin K to a variety of conditions that include anemia, liver damage, kidney damage and death.

I understand the reasoning behind the K shot, there is a deficiency bleeding that occurs in newborns between 3-7 weeks that the K shot prevents. But exceeding the infant's intake by 100 times? Good grief, what are they trying to do. After further research, it seems best to really utilize the colostrum in breast milk which is rich in vitamin K and also, if concerned, use a liquid supplement. Here is another quote which is logical and well put:
Commonsensically, VKR poses the question, "...how could God (or nature)have erred so badly as to give all newborn babies only an infinitesimal fraction of their required vitamin K? Surely the human race could not have survived to this point if all newborns were born with this deficiency and none being administered at birth until very recently."
(this information found here: Vitamin K)
Also:
Newborn Vitamin K administration linked to higher cancer rate for 1-6 year old children

Sigh. I need to just collect data, decide what we are not going to do, get liquid vitamin K on hand(or I will supplement while nursing) and be done with this. The most important thing is to sign that waiver to nix this CDC/big brother mandated junk before they get their hands on my newborn. See, I told you I get over-protective(with good reason). After the lies about vaccines I have been fed, I won't fall for it again. I had a normal child that woke up autistic after shots. That is criminal and won't happen again.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Vaccinations and newborns


My brain has been on this lately and it is hard not to worry. I am convinced that vaccinations caused my boys autism. I found this 2003 article on WND that sums up my rage against the CDC:
Newborn vaccinated over parents' objections
Orwellian nightmare for 'persecuted' couple
as armed guards ensure infant's vaccination

Of particular interest and in total agreement I found this:
"We believe in God, and that God has created us in his image. In being created in God's image, we are given his perfect immune system. We are bestowed with His gift, the immune system. We believe it is sacrilegious and a violation of our sacred religious beliefs to violate what God has given us by showing a lack of faith in God. Immunizations are a lack of faith in God and His protection, the immune system," the father maintains.

If we are to be people of faith then this has to be true. I first have religious objections to vaccines and second, I believe the government is trying to poison our children because they are "in bed with" big pharmaceuticals. I have a right to believe this(it's a free country, or so we are told).
A friend of mine told me Jenny McCarthy was on Oprah yesterday discussing her new book about her son, Evan, who is autistic. Like my younger son, he started showing obvious signs much after birth(age 2). For my son it was age 4. The connection? Both my son and Evan were vaccinated right before they "lost" everything. All those milestones, eye contact, for my son, toileting, sleep, happiness. It is a parents worst nightmare. You wake up one day and someone has taken your happy, precious child and replaced him with an apathetic robot who you can never keep content or happy. Thankfully, we have stopped vaccinating completely and my daughter has no signs at all. She had no vaccines after 6 month(much to the dismay of her pediatrician).
Why am I spouting off on this subject? I believe it is my job to warn other parents. No one else will. The government won't do it, the hospital won't do it and your doctor certainly won't do it.
As a family, we are in damage control mode now. Whatever we can do to make their burden lighter and their lives a bit easier, we do for them. But I can't go back and say no. I live with that guilt everyday. Now that I am informed, I'm a doctor's nightmare. That's what a protective mother bear should be. Here is the link for the book:

Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism

Another interesting link/study can be found here:

California/Oregon Unvaccinated Study
"We surveyed over 9,000 boys in California and Oregon and found that vaccinated boys had a 155% greater chance of having a neurological disorder like ADHD or autism than unvaccinated boys." -Generation Rescue, June 26, 2007

Scary stuff, no?