Ep 222 Vitamin K: Calling the shots
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The firsthand account contains some descriptions that listeners might find upsetting. Please listen with discretion. Olive was breathing and her heart was beating, but she was otherwise non-responsive. She was fitted with an IV, had blood drawn, and even had a lumbar puncture to help the doctors figure out what was going on. It turned out there was blood in the fluid that they pulled from her lumbar puncture. The pediatric intensivist came and asked me if we had given our daughter a vitamin K shot at birth, and I just stared at him and said I had no idea. The doctor explained that a clot had developed that was placing immense pressure on Olive's brain. Not only that, but there was bleeding on the back of the right side of her brain as well.
The water pockets that are within the brain were completely destroyed, and the tissue on the left side of the brain looked damaged. He said that the lack of vitamin K in Olive's system resulted in her blood not being able to clot. Anything as small as putting her down in her bed could have caused this bleed. Since she couldn't clot, the bleeding didn't stop. Olive began clotting a little over an hour after they began her vitamin K treatment. Our decision now was whether we could have her undergo the risky surgery or see if the clot would resolve on its own. We felt the surgery was the best option, and it began just after 2 a.m. Our little girl survived the surgery, and it was a success. Thank you so much.
I ran through the situation in my mind, trying to understand why I would say no to something that would keep my daughter from being in this much pain. In Olive's situation, unfortunately, it was largely accidental. That didn't stop me from feeling guilty, however, and only recently did I accept that although this happened to Olive, it doesn't have to happen to another person's baby. Olive was born in a birth center. I loved the experience that I had there, and to this day, I hold no hard feelings against the wonderful midwives that were present when she was born. A few weeks before her birth, we went over the routine shots that infants are given in the hospital and decided whether or not Olive would receive them.
For most of these, I knew my answer. But since I knew nothing about the vitamin K shot, I decided to do my research and then decide at the birth what I would do. When I began hemorrhaging after Olive's birth, the discussion of the shot was completely forgotten, and she ended up not getting it. After all, things that are deemed to be optional are probably not essential, right?
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