In Germany the official recommendation is: all healthy newborns are given 2 mg Vit K orally at birth, with the second medical check (at 5 days) and with the third medical check (1month), all by MD. Mother doesn't need to think about it. Risk children become vit K. im. With this we don't see hemorrhagic disease of the newborn any more. Elien Rouw, MD, Bühl *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html