Lots of suggestions on this so I would just add two obsevations:

* in any situation where weights are being used as clinical 
information, the *basic* essential is that weights are done naked on 
a properly calibrated digital scale by people qualified and trained 
to carry them out and interpret them.....I would wonder how accurate 
the scales are, and weighing a baby sometimes clothed sometimes naked 
is just poor practice

* this is not a situation that a peer supporter should be handling, 
IMO, and at least in the UK this would be way, way outside a peer 
supporter's boundaries. The only role for a peer supporter in this 
situation is to support and encourage the mother, and to signpost her 
to the right help. Clinical or potentially clinical situations are 
not part of  a PS's territory, and it is very unfair to the PS, and 
potentially unsafe for the mother and baby, for this to happen




Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK
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http://www.heatherwelford.co.uk

http://heatherwelford.posterous.com

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