If your car booster seat is suitable for children up to 18 kg and your child is 1 stone 4 pounds and 11 ounces, are they safe in that seat in the event of an accident? In addition, body weight in kg is used to calculate medicine doses both in Britain and abroad, especially so for babies and small children, where the margin of error for medicines is smaller than for adults. In addition to weight two other indications of baby size are important.
One is the length and the other is head circumference. Centimetres are used internationally for measuring baby length and head circumference by the medical profession even in the USA.
It is easier to work out percentage growth with centimetres. Comments 10 Add a comment. I have always known babies to be in lbs than kg the same as when i was born haha but in australia they use kgs and that just confuses me so i always ask for lbs. I use kilos for everything, but for some reason I only understand pounds for babies!
I think because that's what everyone uses! Australia only went metric in the late 70s I think so I grew up with the metric system but with parents who used the old system.
For adults I can get a sense of weight in kilos but for babies I seem to have a much clearer picture if its in pounds. However, when my OB asked how big DS was when he was born, I said 8lbs 4 oz, and he was like what's that in grams? I was like ummm I don't know, I thought you used lbs here for babies, and he was like nope.
Hah, so I guess it just depends where you are and who you're talking to! I think it's just a tradition! When bubs is born they will give you their weight in grams but then also give you the conversion into pounds and ounces. She was right, everyone want to know the old way - when we tried to tell them he was grams, they just looked puzzled and wanted more info! I understand what you mean I dislike this whole pound thing Confuses the heck out of me! I'm so happy when I had my two kids they measured them both in kgs my DD was 2.
So I hope this bub they will do the same in Kg not pounds :. They normally use grams in hospital for babies but they will convert it to lbs for u if u like. My first two were given weight in lbs the last in grams.. Confusing hey! I think they give both now. For example, at 24 weeks' gestation, your fundal height should be close to 24 cm. Your healthcare provider may also use fetal ultrasound to check your baby's growth and development. Ultrasound uses sound waves to create a picture of your baby.
It is a more accurate than checking fundal height. Measurements can be taken of your baby's head, belly abdomen , and upper leg bone femur. These measurements are used to estimate his or her weight. Babies are weighed within the first few hours after birth. The weight is compared against the number of weeks of pregnancy gestational age.
If your baby weighs less than 2, grams 5 pounds, 8 ounces , he or she has a low birth weight. Babies weighing less than 1, grams 3 pounds, 5 ounces at birth are considered very low birth weight. Babies who weigh less than 1, grams 2 pounds, 3 ounces are extremely low birth weight.
It will also depend on how severe the condition is. Special feedings. Sometimes these are given through a tube into the stomach if a baby cannot suck. Or they are given through an IV intravenous line.
How well a baby with low birth weight does depends largely on how much the baby weighs at birth. Babies who weigh less than 1 pound, 1. Low-birth-weight babies typically catch up in physical growth if they have no other complications. Babies may need to have special follow-up healthcare programs. Low-birth-weight babies often have problems.
The baby's tiny body is not as strong as a baby of normal birth weight. He or she may have a harder time eating, gaining weight, and fighting infection. Low-birth-weight babies often have a hard time staying warm because they don't have much fat on their bodies. Babies that are born premature often have complications. It is sometimes hard to tell if the problems are because they were born early, or because they are so small.
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