Hello all! Here is one very rare situation where test weighting was useful: if a baby has congenital diabetes. After NICU it might be useful to know how much baby is taking to adjust her insulin doses. At NICU we did the usual test weighting to know how much supplementing my daughter needed. When she came home (she was about 2,5 kg then) after nine weeks at the hospital with severe nipple confusion after all those bottles and only some hours breastfeeding daily I needed to know how much she ate from the breast so I could give her more milk and estimate how long I could let her sleep before waking her up to feed. The insulinpump gave me little leverage with eating but she had to eat something at some point. If the diabetic baby is nursing well then there is no need to weight. When baby is breastfeeding on cue, she is probably eating smaller portions frequently and with insulinpump you can find a suitable dosage of insulin per hour to keep bloodglucose on wanted levels. Of course "you can not breastfeed her because we have to know how much she eats..." But luckily her MD let me try in my own way and when they saw how she thrived after coming home, I proved that you can indeed breastfeed a diabetic very SGA baby. (Later there were other medical problems but she is still nursing at two years of age.) Best wishes, Pia Ruohotie RN, breastfeeding counsellor, breastfeeding counsellor trainer, mother-to-mother bf support group leader Mother of two daughters from Helsinki, Finland, (Scandinavia), Europe *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html