I never ever weight a child for lactation consultation. Lactation consultancy is not a health check up. My concern is mother-baby-breastfeeding. Weighing is done by midwifes, GP's, well-baby clinic doctors and nurses - my weighing an extra time will not add any valuable information and probably only add to the confusion of yet another scale and another method. I instruct mothers to have baby weighted at certain intervals at their preferred place at roughly the same time of day and on the same scale. I concentrate on 1) getting baby fed, 2) preferably at breast or 3) at least with mom's milk.
Could this have to do with were a LC ''comes from''? I have no health care background, but a teaching and a BF counselor (LLL) one.In my view lactation counseling is not healt care, but counseling and teaching.
Warmly,
gonneke, IBCLC in PP, LC lecturer in southern Netherlands
Twitter @eurolacpuntnet
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Date: Friday, June 3, 2011, 5:40 PM
I do feel that a weight check would be fairly common practice if an LC is seeing a baby under one month old. I am presuming they are there because of some problem or concern. If the baby had recently been to the pediatrician or other reliable weigh in, then that step could be skipped.
Laurie Wheeler RN MN IBCLC
Mississippi USA
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