Newborn Babies are Internally Bleeding to Death — a Troubling Parenting Trend is to Blame

Doctors across the country are seeing an alarming rise in newborns bleeding to death — and a concerning trend by parents is the culprit.

While all initially healthy at birth, a 7-week-old boy from Maryland experienced sudden seizures, a Kentucky newborn threw up before becoming lethargic and a girl in Alabama stopped breathing for several seconds at a time before they died, as reported this week by ProPublica.

Their conditions could have easily been prevented with one standard recommendation at birth, which parents are refusing in droves.

The babies developed vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB), a rare but potentially fatal condition that can be averted with a single vitamin K shot.

Vitamin K plays an essential role in our bodies, and it’s especially important for newborns.

“Babies are born with a limited amount of clotting factors that get used up pretty quickly,” Dr. Candice Foy, a pediatrician and medical director of the newborn nursery at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, previously told The Post. (Read more from “Newborn Babies are Internally Bleeding to Death — a Troubling Parenting Trend is to Blame” HERE)