Thanks Winnie

Regards

Jenny
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From: "Jim & Winnie Mading" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 12:40 AM
Subject: "acceptable" weight loss


> It used to be that 10% loss was seen as either the time for action
> or at least the time to look at why it was happening.  When hospital
> stays were longer, by the time mom/baby went home, if all was going
> well, weight had turned around.  Now with moms going home at 24 to
> 48 hours, some acceptable weight loss can still occur after
> discharge, hence the need for a lower threshold for that time
> period.  I believe it was lactation resources that began to say we
> should be LOOKING AT it when weight loss got to 7 or 8%.  This means
> checking to see whether baby is nursing effectively or if there is
> some problem with milk supply getting going.  It did not mean that
> supplement is automatically needed at 7-8%!  The whole topic of
> weight loss as one factor rather than the "be all and end all" of
> assessing whether a baby needs supplementing has been discussed at
> length on LN.
> Many times a weight loss of 7-8% will only need to generate a
> recheck within a couple days rather than waiting 2 weeks.  In other
> cases it may lead to discovery of a problem with positioning/latch
> which the sooner it is corrected, the sooner baby's weight will
> "turn around".
>
> Winnie
>
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