In a message dated 6/5/2006 2:38:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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The moms  said the scale allowed them to know, with greater certainty, how 
much  post-nursing supplementing (of expressed milk) and subsequent pump use 
had  to be going on.

Liz,
 
glad you brought this up.
 
Often the scale proves to a mom that pumping and  supplementing is not needed.
 
and, in 30+ years of working with moms and babies it is my experience that  
it is not just pre-termer moms who like scales, they just about all do. 
 
As new moms are bombarded daily with people and ads and  authorities and 
relatives and other moms and media, doubting that Bf works, or  will continue to 
work, and no matter how much we verbally reassure moms (look at  that perfect 
baby!) many moms come to Bf group weekly for reassurance and  the thrill of 
seeing that irrefutable measured proof that Bf works, ...to  some moms it is an 
important *piece* of information that enhances  confidence that they are indeed 
doing a good job of mothering their  baby.
 
In the US we measure stuff, this will not change just becuz it is not  really 
needed or the rest of the world already knows better.

 
Debbie  Tobin
RN BSN IBCLC LCCE

Fairfax County, Virginia suburbs  outside the Washington DC beltway

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