Your first memory of vitamins may involve Flintstones chewables. But if you were born after 1961, a doctor probably gave you vitamin K shortly after birth. For decades, U.S. health officials have recommended the shot to prevent dangerous internal bleeding in babies.

Facts on the vitamin K shot for newborns
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