I'm 99% certain that, here in the UK, all measurements, including birth
weights, are done in metric.
I am fairly sure that birth weights are converted to imperial (for whatever
reason!!) for the parents benefit. The media tends to use solely imperial
weights when talking about new born babies when, I am fairly positive, the
actual weighing is in SI measurements.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pierre Abbat" <[email protected]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 4:31 AM
Subject: [USMA:45674] height and weight at the doctor's office
I went to the memphispractor on Friday and was handed a stack of forms to
fill. The form had a space for height, labeled "ft in", and one for
weight,
labeled "lbs". I scribbled the units out and filled both blanks in metric.
Is
there any progress toward having doctors ask for these in metric?
Pierre
