Anonymous wrote:FTM, planned to get a hatch because my husband is nerdy like that! Besides weighted feeds, is there anything else the Hatch would help be aware of? Any other justifications for the fancy scale? Lol

I think it's just nice to get a sense of your baby's growth in between visits, especially these days when you don't want to just drop by the pediatrician's office to weigh them. At first you're there what feels like constantly, but then the basic well-visits are 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, 9 months, and a year. My baby's weight percentile had dropped at 4 months but not enough for the doctor to recommend bringing her back in at 5 months during a pandemic. I wouldn't have minded a Hatch to check in on her. (I'm the one above who bought the useless cheap scale off Amazon.). You can hold the baby on an adult scale, then weigh yourself not holding her and subtract to get the difference. But that's obviously not super precise.

FTM, planned to get a hatch because my husband is nerdy like that! Besides weighted feeds, is there anything else the Hatch would help be aware of? Any other justifications for the fancy scale? Lol

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah but in the age of COVID some of us want to reduce our exposure to germy pediatrician offices.

Anyone with common sense would go to see a pediatrician right now if they were concerned about their child not eating enough as a newborn. If “some of you” don’t then you should not have a child.

Oh good lord some of us are not FTMs, we know how to do a weighted feed, and we want to monitor our own children’s growth. Don’t have histrionic.

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Anonymous wrote: My lactation consultant said do NOT do this as unless you’re paying the thousands of dollars a professional scale costs it’s not accurate or helpful. Just go into their office to do weighted feeds.

yeah - I think at the point that you're worried enough to do weighted feeds for a newborn, you need to be seeing an LC and/or pediatrician almost daily. When we needed to carefully monitor intake for our baby in his first 2 weeks, I think we went in for weigh-ins at least 4-5x.

I disagree completely. With my first, I was at the LC’s office every two days for a weighted feed because my baby always seemed hungry. It cost me a fortune. With my second, I got a hatch scale and did weighted feeds and it relaxed me - which relaxed him.

I say definitely get a good scale.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah but in the age of COVID some of us want to reduce our exposure to germy pediatrician offices.

Anyone with common sense would go to see a pediatrician right now if they were concerned about their child not eating enough as a newborn. If “some of you” don’t then you should not have a child.

Not sure how helpful they are for weighted feeds, but they can still be helpful for monitoring growth when there are concerns over intake. With my first, I used a scale on Amazon (not US, though so no rec unfortunately). Weighed him most days and got a feel for where he was trending/average daily gain. It worked fine for us, though obv may have been less appropriate in a more severe case).

Yeah but in the age of COVID some of us want to reduce our exposure to germy pediatrician offices.

Anonymous wrote: My lactation consultant said do NOT do this as unless you’re paying the thousands of dollars a professional scale costs it’s not accurate or helpful. Just go into their office to do weighted feeds.

yeah - I think at the point that you're worried enough to do weighted feeds for a newborn, you need to be seeing an LC and/or pediatrician almost daily. When we needed to carefully monitor intake for our baby in his first 2 weeks, I think we went in for weigh-ins at least 4-5x.

My lactation consultant said do NOT do this as unless you’re paying the thousands of dollars a professional scale costs it’s not accurate or helpful. Just go into their office to do weighted feeds.

Whatever you do, don't buy a cheap one off of Amazon. They don't work if the baby doesn't stay totally still; completely worthless. Probably worth springing for something like the Hatch.

I used the Hatch baby scale. Loved it.

Thank you!