{"id":335203,"date":"2026-05-28T00:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/335203\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T00:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:26:08","slug":"valley-childrens-urging-parents-to-give-newborns-vitamin-k-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/335203\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley Children&#8217;s urging parents to give newborns vitamin K shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, May 27, 2026 11:18PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Valley Children's urging parents to give newborns vitamin K shot\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Pediatricians at Valley Children&#8217;s Healthcare are urging parents to understand the importance of the vitamin K shot for newborns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The shot is given shortly after birth, and medical experts say it plays a critical role in preventing dangerous bleeding in newborns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Dr. Patrick Nwajei joined us to discuss the shot and the impact it has.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, May 27, 2026 11:18PM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Pediatricians at Valley Children&#8217;s Healthcare are urging parents to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[138487,112,114,113,128905,10866,294,138485,138486],"class_list":["post-335203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-138487","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-newborns","tag-shots","tag-timely","tag-valley-childrens","tag-vitamin-k"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}