Far too high.....these days, with our extra knowledge and extra data, we
should not be only looking at amount of weight gained, anyway, but where
these babies are in terms of rate of weight gain. The WHO weight charts
start at age 2 weeks.

A baby gaining weight more slowly might not be reflecting his mother's
sufficiency/insufficiency, but his own physiology.  Assessing babies'
health and growth is a complex art, which should be combined with
assessment of the mother's breastfeeding. Weight is only one part of the
picture.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK


On 25 June 2013 10:39, Karleen Gribble <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I have just been rereading Marianne Neifert's paper on lactational
> insufficiency. I find it interesting that they determined that a woman was
> not providing her baby with enough milk if they gained less than 200g a
> week between weeks 2 and 4 of life. That seems to be too high as a cut off
> to me. I would be interested in the opinion of Lactnetters.
> Karleen Gribble
> Australia
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