Lizzy, You did well! Here are what I consider the important points (from someone with 40 yrs experience!): - you identified the risk factors - early baby, traumatic delivery, early discharge, low hemoglobin, sleepy, jaundice - you identified ineffective feeding - sleepy, not persevering, a little floppy, ? urates, stooling not progressing - You are ensuring baby is well fed and gets STS (supplement IF needed) - you are ensuring mother is expressing often - and she's doing both mechanical/hand expressing - you are validating mother's efforts (this is hard work but baby needs you) - you are supporting mother - you are arranging frequent monitoring of baby - wt checks, output, jaundice monitoring - I like daily or every other day until things go well Great job! Laurie Wheeler RN MN IBCLC MISSISSIPPI USA *********************************************** Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html To reach list owners: [log in to unmask] Mail all list management commands to: [log in to unmask] COMMANDS: 1. To temporarily stop your subscription write in the body of an email: set lactnet nomail 2. To start it again: set lactnet mail 3. To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet 4. To get a comprehensive list of rules and directions: get lactnet welcome