Can someone point me to research that shows a 5 per cent weight loss
in the first 36 hours is a serious risk to babies?
I am not disbelieving it or challenging it - I just have not been
aware of evidence for this.
In the UK, healthy babies are not normally weighed until 4-5 days
postnatally at the very earliest. I think there is an evidence-based
case for making this 3-4 days, personally, alongside on-going
observation and assessment of how feeding is going, but I would be
concerned if weighing was introduced even earlier than this - 'cos
weighing is not necessarily benign, especially in a non-bf-supportive
environment - unless there was good evidence that doing this spots
problems earlier.
Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK
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