>I'm just saying that waiting until 2 weeks out may affect long term milk
>supply because of poor removal early on, or baby gets some really poor
>patterns of sucking ingrained or mom just simply gets discouraged and
>switches to bottles because baby doesn't seem satisfied etc, etc.  I'm
>just saying that weight, used appropriately, gives us a good idea in the
>early days whether or not effective milk transfer is happening.

I agree with all that, Pat, truly I do,  but here we feel  a 2 week
'window' is allowable *if the baby and mother are feeding happily*  or
looking as if they are getting there and improving day by day.

Trouble is, as I have indicated in other posts, too many HPs here are now
so relaxed about weight gain they allow poor feeding to persist. They look
at the weight, and nothing else...and because they want to get away from
the idea that a bottle of formula is the answer to everything, they ignore
poor weight gain. Now that would not be so bad if they knew to look for
effective feeding signs  elsewhere....but  they *do not know what on earth
to look for* , and even if they did, they are even less informed about what
to do to fix it. So what do they do? They don't look, they don't ask and
they don't listen.

<sigh>

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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