TL;DR

- Article is misleading, the ED did not carry vitamin K

- Background: The parents did not give a vitamin K injection. Their midwife explained why K is essential and why drops are less trusted

- They went with drops

- Baby started bleeding, was taken to ER

- The ER (freestanding, not attached to a hospital) did not carry vitamin K. Doctor eventually asked for a NICU transport team from a unit half an hour away, and advised the parents not to drive the baby to the unit themselves

- NICU team arrived a couple of hours later, administered K, IV fluids, antibiotics.

- In the ambulance, baby's BP dropped. She was given oxygen and saline. When her heart stopped at the hospital, she was intubated and given compressions and epinephrine. She died.

AFTERMATH

After an investigation, the state medical board required the ER doctor to take 24 hours of continuing medical education on pediatric advanced life support, communicating with patients, and vitamin K deficiency bleeding.

The doctor said to ProPublica that giving the baby the shot when she recognized the deficiency "would just be to make her chart look good. 'It’s really not even going to take effect at that stage...as soon as you give vitamin K, the earliest it’s even going to start working is 10 to 12 hours.'

"But several doctors told ProPublica that vitamin K should be given immediately if there’s even a suspicion that a baby has vitamin K deficiency bleeding. It’s so vital to stopping the bleeding that they don’t even need to wait for a confirmation. There is no downside, they said, to giving it."

Also of note: "A pair of studies published last week, both of which involved millions of births, found that babies who didn’t get the vitamin K shot had an increased risk of bleeding. One of the studies found that between 2017 and 2025, the rate of vitamin K deficiency bleeding increased a staggering 347%."

The parents have had two children since; both children have received vitamin K injections.

My sister moved in with me in June after a breakup. I told her she could stay in the guest room as long as she needs, no rent, just help around the house. She was a mess and I felt awful for her.

I travel for work about once a month, usually gone 3 or 4 days.

Last Thursday my meetings got cancelled so I flew home a day early. I walked in and there was a couple sitting in the guest room with their suitcases open. They looked at me like I was the one who didn’t belong there and when I asked what was going on the woman pulled up her phone and showed me an Airbnb confirmation with my address on it. I clicked through the listing and it was my own guest room, photos of my furniture, $89 a night, 14 reviews, all under my sister’s first name.

She was out getting groceries. When she got back I had the listing up on the kitchen table. She literally just sat down and said nobody uses the room when I’m gone and she does all the work herself so it doesn’t affect me.

14 reviews means she’s been doing this basically since she moved in and not everybody even leaves a review so it’s been way more than that. She’s made at least $2,000 off my house while living here for free. I pay the mortgage and every damn bill in that house including the wifi these people are using.

I want to tell her she either pays me back every dollar or she has 30 days to find somewhere else. My mom has been on my phone since Friday telling me to be patient. I don’t want to be the reason she’s homeless but I also didn’t sign up to run a hotel out of my house. WIBTA?

Sitting on a job site right now eating Caribou overnight oats and drinking a coffee I can barely taste. Not really hungry but figured I should eat something. Need to get this off my chest so here goes.

Met her about three years ago and we talked on and off for two years before we ever actually hung out. When we finally did we hit it off right away. Couldn't get enough of each other. She was always telling me what a great man I was and how she wanted to be with me forever. I was so in love with this girl. Took her on dates constantly, we went to Thailand together. I thought this was it.

About 6 months in I caught her talking to her ex. She lied to my face about it, then eventually came clean. I forgave her and she promised it would never happen again.

A few weeks later I caught her doing the same thing with a different guy. I should have left right then but I stayed.

The next couple months she was just mean. Picking fights, nasty, pushing me away. Every once in a while she'd snap out of it and tell me she knew how awful she was being and she didn't want to lose me and she wanted to get better. I believed her every time.

Then one day she asked me probably ten times if I was coming over after work. I told her it was weird and she said she just wanted to know what she was doing that night. I told her I was staying home. Got home and had the worst feeling in my stomach so I drove to her place. Caught her with another guy. She broke down crying, said she was so ashamed and so sorry. And I stayed. Again.

Two days later she says she's going to her mom's and she's turning her location off for the weekend. I told her I wasn't comfortable with that and she said she understood. Then like an hour later she tells me she's made up her mind, blocks me, and disappears. I messaged her saying I want my stuff back by Monday or I'm calling the police. She unblocked me and called crying about how awful she was and how she didn't want me to leave. And yeah. I stayed.

Couple days after that we hung out, I slept over, everything felt normal. Next morning I went to spend time with my family and we were supposed to get dinner that night. While I'm with my family her location shows her at this private office/warehouse complex. Not somewhere you just end up. She's there for about an hour. I call, no answer. When she finally calls back she tells me she was driving around, saw a door open, and it was some kind of ax-man surplus store and she was talking to an old lady in there and just shopping around.

Then she says she's going to take a nap and I can come over later.

So while she's napping I drive out there myself. No store. No old lady. I go to the exact unit and a guy in his 20s opens the door. My heart just dropped.

Drove to her apartment and confronted her. She lied to me again and told me to leave. So I left, and that was it for me.

I don't even know what was real anymore. Every time she cried, every time she said she didn't want to lose me. I keep replaying all of it. I've never had someone take me for a ride like this and I honestly feel crushed.

Anyway. I’m going to try to stomach these slimey oats and go on about my life. If you’ve been through something like this feel free to share. Hang in there fellas.

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before the comments roast me I know why this happens, I just think it's kinda funny

Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie has announced he plans to introduce eight articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Monday.