I am often asked if I will do a circumcision if the baby hasn't had a Vitamin K shot. [Hospitals tell parents different things, and not all parents want to give their child a vitamin K shot)
The answer is YES. And here is why.
More important and more complicated than the circumcision itself is the wound-care which follows. Circumcisions usually heal well, and while it sometimes takes a few weeks or even months for things to look "normal," none of that will happen if the baby's immediate post-op bleeding isn't tended to. Which is why a mohel's training spends much more time on bleed-control than on the mechanics of circumcision.
We have been circumcising our babies for THOUSANDS of years, and have developed excellent methods for wound-care, none of which ever took into consideration whether a baby had a Vitamin K shot.
On a different note - and this is my anecdotal experience - I have not seen a significant difference between the babies who had a Vitamin K shot and those who did not. Everyone bleeds, and everyone stops bleeding eventually.
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