Vitamin K at Birth: To Inject or Nothttp://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/05/26/vitamin-k-injections.aspxBy Linda Folden Palmer, DC Newborn infants routinely receive a vitamin K shot after birth in order to prevent (or slow) a rare problem of bleeding into the brain weeks after birth. Vitamin K promotes blood clotting. The fetus has low levels of vitaminenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)