Annie says, "Recently, while doing home visits, I have started putting 3 Tablespoons of water in a clean diaper and then hand it to the parents and say, "This is what we are looking for in a wet diaper, it should 'feel' like this and be about this heavy" I like to suggest to new parents who are using disposable diapers and have any question about enough wet ones that if they put a 2 inch wide (approximately) strip of paper towel in a diaper when they first put it on baby it is very easy to see if it is wet when they change the diaper. Especially if they have a circumcised boy, it can be confusing as the circ has a yellowish coating as it heals and some parents have confused this on a diaper as urine! This doesn't address volume as closely as Annie's 3 T of water does, but at least will give some impression of dry vs a little wet vs soaked. Winnie *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html