04/05/2025
This is a wee bit biased…but there are some beautiful truths woven in.
Babies ARE born with very little Vitamin K because their bodies don’t start making it right away. One of the many question marks in creation. In the womb, babies get all their nutrients from the placenta, but Vitamin K doesn’t cross the placenta very well. Vitamin K is super important for things like blood clotting (think of it as nature’s bandaid, babies just don’t get enough of it before birth.
Additionally, babies are born with a “sterile” gut, meaning there are no bacteria in their intestines yet. And Vitamin K is partly made by friendly bacteria that live in our digestive systems. Since babies don’t have these bacteria right away, they can’t produce Vitamin K on their own at first. They picked day 8 to start that production. We encourage you to research all the pros and cons and ask questions…that’s true informed consent.
Because of this, you’ll get to make the choice on rather or not you feel vitamin k is the right choice for your baby.
It takes a village…start at The Shire
Xoxo Andie, Kristen and Blair
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