A newborn doesn’t need a vaccine for hepatitis unless the mother has it or could possibly have it. If the mother is or was an injecting drug user, prostitute, or is promiscuous. The disease is transmissible by blood or sɛҳuąƖ contact.
Vitamin K is protective against excessive bleeding and somewhat, against jaundice. There should not have been a commotion over this. It sounds as if advance preparation was not made.
Sometimes, a C-section is necessary to save the life of the mother and/or baby. I agree, too many of them are performed. But let’s not “throw out the baby with the bath water!” 🙄
Home births with a midwife were certainly the norm in this country up until about 1900. Birth was one of the first of normal, natural occurrences to be medicalized. Now, everything in that category is treated as an illness in need of medical supervision and intervention. Think about it! Even conception is a medical procedure, IVF, check ups and prenatal tests during pregnancy and childbirth, early infancy-multiple vaccinations, and for some, circuмcision, all done before leaving the hospital!
“Well Child” checkups, vaccines and more vaccines, lots of antibiotics prescribed, hit or miss every time a child gets sick, although the trend is, thank God, away from this due to drug resistance. More than half of childhood sicknesses are from viruses never identified. God made us with this wonderful thing called the immune system. If given a healthful diet and lifestyle, it usually removes pathogens all on its own. We also have simple medical tests that can diagnose illnesses via study of a blood sample, urine, sputum, nasal secretion, fecal matter, or secretions from the reproductive system.
We’ve medicalized the academic environment, puberty, adolescence—-rebellion is “normal”—-sex from pre-puberty to death, adulthood, (gotta get tested for all those nasty STDs, all those cancers!), pre-menopause, menopause, both female and male, (get your viagra), then geriatric medicine, medicine, and more medicine because we’re in denial that we’re never going to feel like we’re 30 again, the orthopedic surgeries, meds, and devices to combat arthritic joints, thinning bones, etc. We die under medical supervision or as a result of medical intervention, (known as murder, or more politely, euthanasia). There has to be a harvesting of organs before we can die. After death, comes the autopsy if we happen to die under certain circuмstances, and dealing with the body, a whole new industry!
Medical workers no longer believe the Hippocratic Oath, or, to do no harm.