Dr. Vera Mikhailova, MD

Dr. Vera assessed my child in the hospital after birth. About an hour after birth she asked to assess my baby (I had been doing skin to skin). Prior to this I told the nurses I would be declining the Vit K injection and instead would be using oral vit K drops (show to offer similar efficacy to the injection and no black box warning). After assessing my child she proceeded to my bedside and attempted to deliver anecdotal fear-mongering stories to manipulate me into giving my child the vit k injection. This included telling me about a baby with a brain bleed she had recently transferred. She tried this again prior to discharge. My child also had an 8% weight loss in the first 24hr period - this is considered the high end of “normal”. She pushed formula supplementation on me multiple times. She continued to push formula even after I expressed my desire to breastfeed my baby.