>I believe there is a citation for the 5-6% wt loss, I've seen Barbara 
Wilson-Clay mention this and so this might be in her BF ATlas book, which I 
don't have here at home, or it may be in a JHL article.< 

Sam Oddie (neonatologist) and I looked at the literature on this in a paper 
we did a few years ago, of course there may be new literature.
Sachs M & Oddie S (2002). Breastfeeding - weighing in the balance: 
reappraising the role of weighing babies in the early days. MIDIRS Midwifery 
Digest 12, 296-300. 

I seem to remember there should be some posts in the Lactnet archives, too.  
I just tried 'newborn weight loss' and a large number came up, you would 
have to trawl through and think of some more search terms if you don't get 
what you want. 

Magda Sachs, PhD 

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