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Magda Sachs <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:22:32 +0100
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I couldn't agree more about making sure that any scale is of the best 
quality and calibrated. 

In the UK, most babies have a unneccessary number of (fairly) inaccurate 
weight data collected about them.  What is the point of that?  It does not 
establish a base line so that any concern identified can be informed by 
previous weight gain, aside from its potential to undermine continued 
breastfeeding. 

IN one of the tapes in my fieldwork in a UK clinic, you can hear a rythmic 
tapping noise in the background as I speak to a mother -- this is hte sound 
of the health visitor tapping the scale to try and get it to register a 
weight -- it wasn't responding -- while a baby sat in it.  You have to 
wonder about the quality of data collected like that.  I have also seen a 
screaming toddler weighed on a portable infant scale, because the larger 
scale would not register a weight, the child was distraught, but the 
childminder (who had come to the clinic) did not dare go home without a 
weight to show the mother. 

some of you are nurses -- do you take blood pressure in similar 
circumstances? 

Magda Sachs, PhD
Breastfeeding Supporter, The Breastfeeding Network,
UK

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