Becky
I know you say the scales are calibrated but maybe someone wrote the birth
wt down wrong? If he is 18 days old and really lost that much wt I would
think the doc would have noted that even before weighing. And I would think
the description would be the baby looked starved  jaundiced, scant urine and
stool etc. Was this the picture or does the baby look normal?
Most babies come into my office in a car seat carrier. I can almost always
tell before they take him out whether he has been feeding well or not. I can
see the healhty look or the not thriving look.  So I am wondering, did this
baby look bad or could the orig. wt be off?

Laurie Wheeler, RN, MN, IBCLC
Violet Louisiana, s.e. USA

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