Evelyn, Using a good scale *made* for assessing intake, like the Medela Baby Weigh scale (no financial interest in this product) which can tell you down to .1 oz how much was taken in, and records it, seems a good choice. A baby who is recovering from heart surgery will have better oxygenation, less resp and cardio brady and taci problems, better suck-swallow-breathe rhythm, and probably less recovery problems if given human milk DIRECTLY from the breast. See Paula Meirers ect for documentation to present to the surgeon about this. There is a wealth of info about heart health and breastfeeding. This type of scale (even if the hospital doesn't have one and she has to rent from an outside source) is at least as accurate as looking at a bottle to assess intake. Good luck, I hope this child does well. Mary Jozwiak IBCLC, RLC, LLLL, AAPL Private Practice *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html