On Oct 23, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Safe Passage Birth Services wrote:

> I talked to Sandy Klein, our region's Hollister Rep this weekend at
> our LLL HCP seminar, and she said they re-measured and the second set
> (with the chicken egg) is more accurate in terms of actual volume.
>
> I'd never seen the first set, but have a "homemade" set using stones
> of similar sizes, and their smaller sizes prompted me to ask her what
> the difference was.

I was at a conference last week where I got the second set of belly  
balls and Nils Bergman talked about measuring the stomach capacity of  
newborns.  It sounded like the original data came from the 1920's  
from deceased infants.
The small ball probably represents an amount of colustrum that a  
newborn might get, the ping pong ball, or second ball is probably the  
actual size of an infant's stomach.  He said that the third ball  
represents amounts given to ten day old infants, which he thinks is  
an amount which is larger than the infant's stomach and tends to lead  
to more upchucks and dumping into the intestine.
This is from memory, I imagine that the information is actually at  
the Kangaroo Mother Care site.




Pat Thomas RN IBCLC
1335 Lakeview Avenue
Winona, MN 55987
1-507-458-8227

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