Diane Spatz has done some great research here at the Univ. of PA School of Nursing. In what I believe is an as-yet-unpublished piece, she found that mothers of pre-termers who are using accurate scales at home *really liked them.* These moms were part of a group getting intensive lactation follow-up care. These were babies who were in the see-saw transition period where one feeding might be great; the next a snooze-fest. 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 Brooks, JD, IBCLC Wyndmoor, PA, USA *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html