Magda wrote: "The UK government recomendation -- to be published any time now as the 4th edition of the Hall report -- is going to be that -- after the weighing at birth -- babies are weighed *routinely* FOUR TIMES IN THE FIRST YEAR (intervals set in the report). (recommendation leaked in the health visitor's journal last year)." This is amazing, Magda(and about time too). :-) Cant wait to get a hold of the report! I just did a count from my Child Health Record Book, of how many weighs my third son (now 20 months)had in the first year ang got 12!This being the third, I haven't been as often as I was expected to either ,in fact I haven't been back since his hearing assessment at 8 months! He was weighed at birth, Day 2, discharge, day 11 at 1st child health nurse visit, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12,and 16 weeks (phew!), then 6 months till I stopped going as he is healthy and who has *time* with 3 kids, husband and work etc! So he got 8 more weighs than your recommended 4! We are talking about a normal baby, who apart from needing a snip of his tongue tie on Day 10, all was well. Regards Karen Clements IBCLC Melbourne Australia *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html