>Seeking advice with permission to post...
>   
>   Baby will be seven weeks tomorrow.  Birth weight via fish scale 
>was 9 pounds.  Lowest weight on day four, was 8 pounds, 10 ounces 
>using clinic scale.   Birth weight was regained in just over two 
>weeks and has increased with every subsequent recheck, but rather 
>slowly.  We are averaging four ounces, with some just shy and some 
>just over, each week.  For interest, I did a twenty-four hour check 
>this week, which showed only a 5 gram weight gain.


Penny,  none of this rings alarm bells with me!

It's on the normal spectrum, and as there are no other worrisome 
issues about health, development or feeding practice, then weighing 
would seem only to make people unnecessarily anxious :)


For what it's worth, UK good practice -  as outlined in 'Health for 
All' by Hall et al, but hardly ever followed ;) - is to weigh healthy 
babies opportunistically only,  once they are beyond the newborn 
stage (this works out at a handful of times only, when the baby comes 
for routine imms and so on).

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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