> Paul Meier's studies show clearly even the best LCs cannot tell how
> nuch an infant is taking in at any given feeding.

I'm just curious about how easily one can "guess" at how much a baby is
taking in by bottle in the following situations:

a) baby takes 6 oz. out of an 8 oz bottle & then spits up what "looks to
be a large amt" (i.e. probably "more than 2 tbsp" or so)

or

b) baby seemingly takes 6 oz out of an 8 oz bottle and yet is soaking
wet around the neck when done, from having dribbled the foul-tasting
stuff out of his mouth through the feeding.  how much did he actually
swallow???

how much was left after case A spat up?

Obviously if a baby swallows the 6 oz, is not wet all over, & doesn't
spit up, it's fairly accurate...but would it not be easier to estimate a
guess (i.e. with pre/post-feeding weighing, etc.) in both these 2 cases
(eating from bottle and a bf infant, nursing from the breast)?

I'm curious...because if I had a child who nursed fine, but dribbled all
over drinking from a bottle, or who spat up copious quantities of
formula, I'd think it would be easier to guess (fairly closely) at his
intake nursing with the weighing system than to try & guess the amount
dribbled/spat out.  I remember back when I gave simethicone drops to
Sandrine for her colics (6-12 weeks approx.), how I'd spend a long time
feeding it to her 1 drop at a time (there was 0.5 mL of the stuff to
give), and at the end I'd pick her up & notice a wet patch under her
neck (that smelled like mint, same as the drops!) & wonder how much of
the stuff she actually swallowed...0.25, 0.125 ml or???

fio
n@k

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