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> Val
>
> I have to admit I'm preplexed by these numbers.  I'l tell you why.  Riordan
> and Auerbach list this info on two different pages.  P. 461 says Butte, Smith
> and Garza found in 1990 that breastfed babies gain an AVERAGE of 35 gm
>  (approximately one ounce) per day for the first month and 19 gm. (0.6 oz)
> per day at four months.  On p. 515 they drop out the word AVERAGE for some
> reason.
>
> Now I have done the arithmetic every which way and I only get 28.41 grams
> equal to one ounce.  Now as far as I know recommendations for weight gain in
> a breastfed infant are 4 -7 ounces a week.  That is equal to 113 g to 198 g
> per week.  Three hundred fifty grams would be 12 ounces!!  I have to admit my
> roly-poly first born had doubled his birth weight in 3 months and triple it
> in six.  But that means since he started out at  7 1/2 lbs. he gained 84
> ounces which is only 766 g/month.  So that's a little under 7 oz.  a week.
>
> Did someone who wrote the standards mistakenly use 35 grams a day  [which
> still only gives you 245g/ week] as the minimum gain instead of seeing that
> this number represents AN AVERAGE weight gain in breastfed infants!!!  It
> would represent a 3 pound gain in one month!!  No baby needs to gain that
> much.  Something is wrong with that 35 g number!!
>
> I agree that one breast per feed and using Chole Fisher/Micahel Woolridge's
> technique of dropping back for a day to only the same breast offered in a
> threee hour period and then just using one breast per feed might deal with an
> oversupply problem.
>
> Hoping this helps,
>
> Mardrey Swenson in New Hampshire, USA
>
Thank you so much for all your arithmatic, there must be something
wrong, I agree.  I am going to confront the child health nurse with
this, using your calculations (hope thats ok).  There will be a delay in
telling you the outcome as we are going away for 3 days, my husband is
having an op.  Thanks again.