I think Rachel hit the nail on the head with this.  I remember being almost 
frantic about my slow gainers.  Then when my now 20 month old was slowly 
gaining as an infant, I came across something that said "watch the baby, 
not the scale", and what a relief that was.  She was very developmentally 
advanced, happy, cooing, satisfied.  She just looked like a waif.  She's 
now a close to 26 pound 20 month old who still nurses three times a day and 
eats solids like a horse!  And then there's my almost 7 year old who has 
weighed 38 pounds for close to three years now and just gets taller and 
taller (and so looks more and more scrawny).  Then I have two average 
weight kids and two obese ones (one of them medication-induced).  Only one 
of the six was a "rolly-polly" infant.  The point is, a new mom has enough 
to worry about.  There are LOTS of factors besides effective breast-feeding 
that affect growth.  If the baby seems healthy and happy, can't we fore-go 
the twice a week weight checks that are common and one ounce a day 
parameters and save the new parents some worry AND money?!

Beth Fitzpatrick, mom of 6, breast-feeding advocate, biomedical engineer 
student
"When in despair, remember that all through history the way of truth and 
love has always won; there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time 
they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall." Gandhi

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