Hi Duaa, I'm just a dad of 6. I just read your story about this baby. Maybe because I have helped my wife through pregnancies, deliveries, and midnight feedings, (And yes care for the umbilical area!) I too cried. Until my wife sustained a traumatic brain injury, she took care of all these medical decisions. I trusted her as a very intelligent woman who did thorough research. I know that we had given all our children vitamin K shots but I don't know that I was told why. I suppose I'm pretty naive but I think that beyond giving the shot at birth, this child could not have been saved. Of course the biggest mistake to me was not getting the child to the right hospital and that has to be on the ER doctor but also on the ER's policies. We live in the Salt Lake Valley. We had incredible doctors who knew when they did not have the means to care for our children. We had circumstances when we went to Primary Children's hospital. I think it should be mandatory procedure to have a doctor and a registered nurse present information to the parents about this kind of result. There are simply too many rural areas where there isn't a place for even minimal care.
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I am a neonatal nurse with decades of experience. Please people, give your babies the vitamin K injection at birth. Please. Do not “do your own research“
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the saddest, most disturbing part of this story is that these two idiot "parents" we're supposed to feel sorry for have gone on to procreate, not once but TWICE, after losing this poor infant due to their own abject ignorance. the story took place in 2023.
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Doctors aren’t perfect. They make mistakes. The board ruling unfair. The parents wanted blame elsewhere when it fell squarely on them. On one hand, they don’t trust medical science, on the other, when desperate, they selectively seek help. Are there kids now vaccinated?
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Respectfully, your headline is click bait. I know you probably didn't write the headline though, and the article itself is less biased. This is on the parents.
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Idiot parents should be brought on up manslaughter charges. Giving Vitamin K after the bleeding started would not have done a thing to save the baby. The parents 100% killed that baby with their stupidity. I hope they put "my parents were idiots" on the baby's grave marker.
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Was any legal action contemplated against the people whose horrible advice the parents took, in refusing the vitamin K shot for their baby at birth?
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Tragic preventable death…
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many thoughts: the consequences for the doctor seem inadequate to the harm done. low-level street crimes get punished more harshly than lack of care leading to an infant's death! the doctor seemed to lack insight as well. +
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