I am not hospital-based so I don't know what the full implications would be of instituting 2nd day weight as standard. You know studies would need to be done, LOL. I have seen many "inflated" babies. Just a couple weeks ago I had a 4-day-old infant referred to me by a pediatrician who received a panicked call from a home health nurse who noted the infant, who had a birth weight of 8 pounds 8 ounces, was down 14% from birthweight. When the parents came in with the baby they looked frightened (of course!) But, the baby looked terrific. He was alert, was feeding well, was peeing and pooping appropriately -- everything about him proclaimed "healthy baby." I weighed him and he was down 14% from birthweight, sure enough. I asked Mom about her labor -- and she had received many bags of IV fluids over the course of a 36 hour labor. I advised them to keep doing what they were doing and sent them home with nothing more than reassurance. The baby has continued to thrive. I am not anti-scales but I wish we had more faith in our eyes. Margery Wilson, IBCLC *********************************************** 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