The speaker who presented the talk on weight loss in the early postpartum
was Jane Heinig, PhD.  Jane is the editor of the Journal of Human Lactation,
and is on the faculty at UC Davis.  She participated in the Darling Study
work ten years ago, and works in tandem with a dedicated team of LCs in a
very bfg friendly community with tremendously high initiation and duration
rates.  The study was a prospective design with extremely close follow-up
and a sample size of over 250.  The work will be published within the next
year, I think.  She talked about re-weighing the babies who were obviously
peeing out excess water from IV fluids.  Markers for poor feeding
included direct observation of feeding behavior as well as weights.
 I should clarify that Dr. Heinig was talking about initiating interventions
when markers for poor bfg were observed.  These focused on assisting with
better,
more effective bfg.

 Early intervention (before down-regulation of milk supply and
maternal panic set in) has always been, in my exper. the way to go.  Early
intervention
can be gentle, non-hysterical, and very supportive.  Intervention way down
the line is
often too little, too late.

Barbara Wilson-Clay BSEd, IBCLC
Austin Lactation Associates
http://www.lactnews.com

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