>Hello Everyone,
>
>I've been reading the archives but would like to post this situation anyway...
>
>Helping a second time mom with 18 day old baby.
>Baby weighed 7 lbs 14 oz at birth born at home- no complications...
>Lowest recorded weight was 7 lbs 5 oz on day 3.
>Highest recorded weight was 7 lbs 15 oz (mom recalls this as being on day 6).
>Today baby weighed 7 lbs 11 oz.


I would question the accuracy of those weighings. A baby does not 
normally gain 10  oz between  day 3 and day 6....either the mother's 
recall of the timing, or the weights, is incorrect, I would say. Are 
there no written records of these?  This sort of thing should not 
rely on mother's recall.

How was the baby weighed? Electronic scales with recent calibration? 
Or some other way? Naked? Or clothed? At the same time of day and in 
the same relation to feeding or not? Who weighed the baby?

I can't comment on whether this mother sounds as if she has 
insufficient 'raw  material'  to  make milk, but most women as we 
know can make more than enough milk for at least two babies, 
especially at first,  if they're given a baby/babies who suck 
effectively and often.

I would be looking at improving the way the baby attaches to the 
breast to improve this effectiveness, plus suggesting breast 
compression to encurage the baby to continue feeding when he stops 
sucking.

But mostly,  I'd be sceptical  of those weights....and I'd ask about 
the accuracy of the birthweight, too.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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