Equally, if a perfectly healthy dyad - baby gaining well -  presents to someone with a scale with all the usual, culturally determined, anxiety about her baby 'not getting enough milk' and is subjected to what we call here, 'test weighing' the following may ensue.
Anxious mother, sits down to feed a not very hungry baby.  Mum doesn't let down well to baby.  Test weigh show that bay is 'only transferring X mls'.  Mum freaks out. Exclusive breastfeeding is terminated.
I hear that the scale is a useful tool for some of us.  What bothers me about it, is that we don't know how much breastmilk is enough in any given feed for any given dyad.  The only research we have tells us that the range of 'normal' is enormous.
Nina Berry
Australia 
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