I work in child care, and one of the little ones had her 18 month shots last week. Ever since then she has been inconsolable and non-stop screaming (the pain scream), hitting the other kids, hitting us teachers, just absolutely miserable. She can be sassy, but never mean. There was none of her usual sweet silliness last week.
Her mother messaged yesterday that she was staying home with a cough. An hour later, she frantically called my boss saying that little one was in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. They couldn’t get her heart rate under control, so she was helicoptered to the local Children’s Hospital. Her heart stopped on the way and they brought her back. No news on when she will be out of the hospital.
I looked up what the 18 month shots are. Hep A Hep B DTaP Polio And an optional Flu shot, which the child was given.
Every child I work with, after their shots, is HORRIBLE. It’s because they cannot communicate how their bodies feel. The worst is the infants. Stop the planet, I want to get off. 😢
Not to mention a synthetic vitamin K shot with it. Vit K is produced by the liver, which is why baby doesn't have any and vitamin K is needed to clot the blood. IF the baby is born correctly and mother breast feeds, baby gets Vitamin K through breast milk until their livers start to work and produce Vit K themselves which doesn't start till 3 days after the baby is born. Don't get me started on cutting the umbilical cord right after birth...... ugh This world couldn't be more fucked up.
?? most animals (the ones giving the birth) sever the cord soon after birth. I'm lost as to what you think should happen?
The placenta holds upwards of 30-40% of the baby's blood at any given time. It actually pulses after delivery until all the blood is pumped back into the baby, which takes roughly 10 mins but some people wait longer.
There are two large arteries that run into and out of the placenta to the baby, when its born the one that runs out of the baby auto shuts off so the blood can be pushed back into the baby. The placenta is what filters the blood while in utero. I don't know how it works with animals but I know how it works with humans. We didn't start doing that till the mid 1900s for the most part.
If its left on the baby can go up to 2 mins without breathing because it is still getting oxygen through the blood coming back from the placenta.
This is another reason SO many babies are born with heart murmurs. Part of that might also be due to what the mother puts in her body while pregnant, but I do know that the heart of the baby is only two chambers until birth. While the placenta is still pumping the heart has time to close those chambers to make 4 correctly. When you sever the cord to early the heart isn't able to always close correctly.
Its kinda like a shock to the baby's system. They are forced to breathe etc.