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Fiona Dionne <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 4 Dec 2002 08:49:15 -0400
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>The digital aspect of the newer scales can also be misleading -- people
>assume that since they are capable of reporting a weight to within 5 grams
>(or even a gram), that they must be both accurate and precise within plus or
>minus 5 grams, but I don't believe this is necessarily so.
>

Yes, this was in fact a digital scale Barb.  :-)

I take this to mean that we can't be sure of any weight, though I figure
it ought to be precice enough to give a general ballpark figure.  Nyssa
was weighed (only once) at birth and came in at 7 lbs 1 oz (3200
g.)...although the student midwife wrote down 3700 g. (8 lbs 1 oz or so)
as a mistake and for a week or so they were arguing over whether she had
lost any birthweight or not (she didn't, though a weight of 3500 g. [7
lbs 9 oz or so] on day 5 would have been a loss had she weighed 3700 g.
at birth).  So, I think I can safely assume she has gained a bit over 2
pounds or so.  :-)  Somewhere in there...  I know my own midwife who did
the weighing did say 7 lbs 1 oz and wrote it down along with 3200 g. in
her booklet...but other official papers filled in by her student said
3700 g.  I specifically remember, even through my hazy afterpains state,
listening and hearing 3200/7-1 from the midwife...and she was not near
big enough to be an 8 lbs baby.

Fio
(with a new webpage up and photos of Nyssa:
 http://www.geocities.com/macbump/nyssa.htm )

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