...to my post.

I said:



>  NICE guidance has first week weighings for every infant done at
>birth, day 3 and day 5 (NICE is the UK's body that advises on
>evidence-based best practice).


I was not correct - I should not have relied on memory.

NICE postnatal guidance is to weigh as part of a full neonatal check
within 72 hours (in practice this is day 3, but might be done on day
2 from what I see and hear - can be done in community or in hosp) and
then again at the end of the 'newborn period' which is undefined as
far as I can see, but probably 10 days . Baby will already have been
weighed at birth).  I don't know where I got '5 days' from except
this is policy in some places.

I am right however in saying that this is not always done, and when
it is done it is not always reliable.

Sorry :(

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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