----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Jozwiak BS, IBCLC, RLC" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: [LACTNET] Lslow weight gain


On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 13:27:05 -0700, Patricia Berg-Drazin
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

**Hello Mary,

>is it always with all clothes off?

Just a diaper. I leave the same diaper on for the pre and post feed weighs.
(I've weighed the diaper alone, they barely weigh 1/2 oz when new.) Doctor
also weighs with diaper.

Mom is getting rather nervous with the post feed weighs. I wanted to do one
last night. The baby cries when he is naked, or even in just a diapers, and 
she
didn't want to upset him. So, she declined a post feed weigh. (Also, did not
want him weighed at all today, saying she needed to go get the Fenugreek.
*sigh*)

**I was at a symposium a few weeks ago and heard Molly Pessl. She suggested 
we make it more of a habit to weigh babies on their tommies instead of on 
their backs, because the supine position makes them feel so 'naked' and may 
cause them to cry. If the weighing is absolutely necessary, maybe this could 
be a way to make it less traumatic...?

Kindly,

Marianne Vanderveen, Netherlands 

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