On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
> At 14:58 11-1-01 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
>
> >Oh, and I had an ultrasound on Monday, the baby looks normal and healthy
> >to the trained technician, we were told it weighs 12 ounces now, we found
> >out the gender, and my own physiology was looking good as well. And at
> >the checkup yesterday, I got poked and then had part of my belly measured
> >with a tape measure, and I'm told my uterus is 19cm from top to bottom,
> >which is apparently good at this point. (Yeah, non-metric for one
> >measurement, metric for another....)
>
> Julia, not that I want to alarm you or anything, but er...
>
> Shouldn't you start worrying right about now? Or consider going to an
> other hospital? I mean, the last time some measurements were done in
> metric and some in imperial units, NASA lost a very expensive
> spacecraft... <GRIN>
Well, the ounces came from the ultrasound place, which is near downtown
Austin, and the measurement in centimeters was at my obstetrician's
office, in Round Rock; and as long as we know how to get from Austin to
Round Rock, it can't be all that bad, can it? ;)
Seriously, my uterus doesn't give a damn about measurement units, and
that's the vital component of the whole thing. I figure women were giving
birth for uncounted generations before this whole measurement system
problem ever came up.... (They'll give us the birth weight in pounds and
ounces, it's what they do here. Sigh.)
Julia
