In a message dated 10/17/2002 9:24:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Deb C writes:


> Recently we have been plagued at our hospital with "inflated" birth weights
> usually related to mothers having IV fluids prior to vaginal and/or c/s
> deliveries.24 hours after delivery we are having newborns that now are
> exceeding their 10% weight loss.Question:  Are any institutions using
> adjusted weights (retaking the weight in 6-12 hours) to readjust for the IV
> therapy issue.
>

Not formally, yet anyway. When talking with peers/nurses, I've been calling
this phenomena "skewed" birth weights, ...when talking with new parents about
assessing if the wt loss is an issue that needs intervention or not, and the
need to look at several parameters, not just wt loss, we may discuss how mom
got X amt of IV fluids in labor and baby's face was so puffy he could not
open his eyes well for about two days, and some of the wt loss we are seeing
may be excess fluid loss.

Would love to see this theory documented in the research.

Debbie Tobin
RN BSN IBCLC LCCE
Springfield, Virginia USA
In the Fairfax County suburbs outside the Washington DC beltway
where we usually have a room full of moms and babies for Bf Moms Group, but
not this week.
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