I forget the exact reasons but it’s not needed and even maybe the wrong kind. I believe it’s for clotting and most babies are fine, they are very delicate for a few months and most extra intervention always comes with risks. When you get a tongue tie cut, they try to require it but some places let you do it anyway. Then they proceed to use a laser and there is no bleeding, it just cauterizes the wound. Likely this kind of requirement came from when they might cut it but clearly not needed now. Mouth cuts also clot really fast
Indeed. We had twins in September. Denied their shots despite their frequent reminders about how your child can spontaneously bleed out without the vitamin k. When it came time to do the blood tests for the state, they poked one of our girls foot at least four times and had two different nurses trying to get enough blood out to fill the spots on the paper. Failed the test because there wasn't enough blood on the sheet!
Home birth wasn't an option for us with the twins. Thankfully we were at an awesome hospital too, because one of them was having some breathing difficulties for the first few days. All is well now, thank God.
Oh my, I’m glad you made it through ok. My twins were like that except the one with breathing issues had more serious things and we had to stay for almost two weeks.
I forget the exact reasons but it’s not needed and even maybe the wrong kind. I believe it’s for clotting and most babies are fine, they are very delicate for a few months and most extra intervention always comes with risks. When you get a tongue tie cut, they try to require it but some places let you do it anyway. Then they proceed to use a laser and there is no bleeding, it just cauterizes the wound. Likely this kind of requirement came from when they might cut it but clearly not needed now. Mouth cuts also clot really fast
Indeed. We had twins in September. Denied their shots despite their frequent reminders about how your child can spontaneously bleed out without the vitamin k. When it came time to do the blood tests for the state, they poked one of our girls foot at least four times and had two different nurses trying to get enough blood out to fill the spots on the paper. Failed the test because there wasn't enough blood on the sheet!
Thankfully we didn’t have to do any of the state tests recently, though we had to do a home birth. That means no poking at all for the baby
Home birth wasn't an option for us with the twins. Thankfully we were at an awesome hospital too, because one of them was having some breathing difficulties for the first few days. All is well now, thank God.
Oh my, I’m glad you made it through ok. My twins were like that except the one with breathing issues had more serious things and we had to stay for almost two weeks.