I find them helpful. Parents find them helpful. Kay Hoover has a couple of nice, reproducible ones that she has made up. I would presume they are not given out willy-nilly, but with instructions that are tailored to # of days after delivery etc. Heinig reported at ILCA conv that they more commonly saw # of wets = # of days after delivery plus 1. So day one would be 2, day 2 would be 3 and so on. But we have to remember that these are babies delivered under some pretty optimal CA conditions. I wish the study of what is normal could be done in lots of places under lots of circumstances. It just stands my hair on end to hear a mom told 6-8 wet diapers on day 2! I would hazard a guess that even bottle babies don't have 6-8 wet diapers on day 2. Then the poor mom whose baby has 2-3 wet diapers on day 2 is SURE that she doesn't have enough milk and supplements. 6-8 doesn't happen until day 5-7 when mom's milk has come in and baby is sucking and transferring milk in a reasonable fashion. Must be off, sincerely, Pat in SNJ *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html