Why do they put vaseline on newborns eyes?

What the nurses put on newborn's eyes is not Vaseline but erythromycin. Erythromycin is a antibiotic that the nurses put on the baby's eyes to keep the babies from getting eye infections. 

1.)dr. natterson- horowitz came to realize that their isn't much of a difference between animals and humans. just like humans, animals can suffer from illnesses and diseases like breast cancer, self injury, anxiety, and many more. she also discovered how they even treated and performed surgical procedures on animals just as if the animal it self were human. the los angeles zoo called dr. natterson- horowitz because they knew that she was a doctor and that  she would be able to recognize what was wrong with the gorilla. they knew that humans and gorillas were similar, so instead of calling another veterinarian, they called a doctor.