Interesting about the '24 hour baby nurse' in this situation. In the
UK there is a trend among wealthier women, in London only,  from my
experience, to employ a 'maternity nurse' who lives in with the
family for the first few weeks. I think I can honestly say I have not
come across any situation where this has been helpful to the bf (I am
speaking of a skewed sample - the people who call for bf help - so
maybe there are other families where the maternity nurse has been an
angel. Maybe).

Maternity nurses are nannies, sometimes minimally qualified if at
all, who specialise in newborn care.

My question now is whether US paeds and others use charts to assess
growth rate of newborns? Because doing so is a useful way of getting
away from the question of 'how much weight does a baby gain per
week?'. The baby in cillakat's scenario was born on the 9th centile,
and at 5 weeks was still on the 9th centile  which is perfectly
normal - 9 per cent of healthy babies are there!  I don't understand
why there is concern about this (though I agree bf after reduction
does merit close attention to getting bf underway and maintained -
close attention reveals this baby is healthy, and the weight gain is
normal).

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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