I like Susan's thinking, and Helen I agree with you, I just have not great feelings about test weighing and what it does to mom's confidence.  If needed I prefer a daily or 2 day weight check(whole baby :-) , monitoring output etc, as opposed to test weights in isolation. (one feed out of many feeds in a day in a not stressful situation - like a dr vss) 
Further more, I think test weights in first 2-3 days are a really poor idea.  In US, nurses' brains are looking at ounces, when we know colostrum doesn't usually come in a large volume.  So if no ounces, oh my goodness, we had better supplement!  Colostrum has a different composition  and doesn't need to come in large volumes.  Pat in SNJ

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