Does Adequate Weight Gain Also Help To Know Whether The Baby Is Getting Enough Breast Milk?
Yes, provided the weighing machine is accurate and the baby is weighed on the same weighing scale, either naked or with the same type of clothes on each occasion. Also, many people wrongly assume that a baby must gain 2 pounds or 1 kilo in weight per month. Some normal babies may gain only half that. And then, a baby may normally lose some weight in the first few days after birth and regain it after that to return to her original weight on the tenth day. The real gain in weight should be calculated after the tenth day. My personal experience shows that a mother who feeds her baby on demand from the time she is born finds that her baby regains her birth weight even before the tenth day.
