From implantable devices that provide a steady trickle of medicine over months, to patches that reduce the need for injections, to ingestible sensors that track how people take their meds, the bold new science of drug delivery may be doing as much to improve medicine as the medicines themselves in some cases. (fortuneconferences.com)
It also can help to describe the need for injections and blood testing in kid terms. (kidshealth.org)
If the mother has been consuming Vitamin K in some form or another, it will immediately begin transferring through her colostrum, which is rich in Vitamin K and breastmilk and by eight days of age, baby will have the «right» amount of Vitamin K (and since formula is fortified with vitamin K, formula fed babies shouldn't require it at all)-- since the disease it is meant to prevent doesn't tend to occur until between 3 and 7 weeks I personally question the need for the injection. (diaryofafirstchild.com)