Happy Mothers Breastfed Babies   Forgot Your LLLID? or Create
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support:  Or: Use the Map  Is Weighing Baby to Measure Milk
Intake a Good Idea?  Sue Iwinski Prospect CT USA From: LEAVEN,
Vol. 42 No. 3, July-August-September 2006, pp. 51-53  When I was
a Leader Applicant in 1994 I learned that "test weighing,"
weighing a baby before and after one or more feedings to see how
much milk a baby had received while breastfeeding, was not very
useful in most cases for a healthy, full-term baby. After all,
we knew there were other accurate yet easy ways of telling that
baby is doing well, like counting wet diapers/nappies and bowel
movements each 24 hours. Why would mothers want to focus on
individual feedings when we are well aware that babies do not
take the same amount at each feeding? As long as you feed them
whenever they are hungry, or wake them up for feedings when they
are healthy (albeit sleepy) full-term newborns, they will get
what they need from the