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gonneke van veldhuizen <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 10 Jun 2006 23:59:40 -0700
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Dear Friends,
  I do understand Susan's explanation about precision, reliability and and dependability. What I -still- do not understand is: why would anyone want to know how many grams of milk *exactly* a given baby consumes? 
  (as a sidenote for precision's sake: we're talking about weighing mililiters, that is very imprecise: when weighing one counts grams. 1 gram of milk does not equal 1 mililiter of milk, that's only tru for water. Fat rich milk will weight considerably less per mililiter than lowfat milk)
  When weighing the baby the only thing one knows is the amount of grams consumed. Not a thing about proteins, carbohydrates or fat, not about other nutrients. Just grams of something.
  In formula knowing the amount of grams will give a precise picture of real intake, when one is sure that the bottle is prepare according to directions. With milk right from the tap nothing is sure from knowing volume or weight alone.
   
  Warmly greeting from warm and shining southern Netherlands,
   
  Gonneke, IBCLC, LLLL, MOM, grandma2B
   
   
  
Susan Burger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
  Nina again asks about test weighing from a single feeding given Harmann's research. This is 
exactly the problem of dependability versus reliability and precision. 

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