Canadian mom question

[rugbywife]

Always done in cm and kg. I convert...I can do it in my head but I use an app to check (the app just has all conversions, I needed it for when I tracked my caloric intake carefully).

It drives my father INSANE when I tell him what my kids weigh in lbs and oz. lol.

[bananapancakes]

They tend to give us both. For some reason at the Drs we get height in inches but head circumference in cm. Weight depends on who is doing it. I know he was 8.1 pounds and something like 3785 grams. Even though we're mostly metric, I find most people in day to day life still use imperial when talking about height and weight.

[rugbywife]

Yes, it's weird...I know weight and length/height in imperial.

Distance metric - until I started running, now I use both.

Temperature celcius but then our house's thermostat would only give us F so I had to get used to that.

[deo]

They do all the measurements in metric but some of the nurses would look up the conversions for you since most people still talk about lbs and oz when it comes to baby weights. I only remember the lbs/oz stats for my kids.

[katiecj6]

Always cm and kg. I just use google to convert.

[momin2013]

They give me cm and kg and I always ask right then what that is in inches and pounds. I know we converted ages ago, but most metric measurements really mean nothing to me.

It probably didn't help that I grew up in a border city so all our news was from the U.S. When I hear someone say it's 25C out, I actually need to do the quick math before I go, oh, yeah, that's pretty warm! 

[rxbeth]

My office tells me height and head in cm and then I can just use my calculator. They give weight in grams but then toggle the scale to lbs/ozs. If they didn't I would just calculate it on my own. Due to my work, I'm used to converting back and forth. I still understand weight and inches better.

[Deleted]

Babies seem to always be in kg. then I convert before I tell my family- post on Facebook. Lol.
But for adults, nobody talks in kg.

[Dezi]

They always give me both. I'm pretty good at converting it myself though.

[heygrey]

Our chart that they plot growth on has both, but the nurse reads it off the scale/measuring tape in kg and cm for the volunteer to record. If they aren't very busy they'll tell me the conversions right there.

[rugbywife]

Sept 1, 2015 20:35:01 GMT -5 @vicmo said:

My family doctor weighs me in kg during early pregnancy so I just never convert and stay ignorant. But my ob has an old school manual lbs scale with the pieces you push across so I knew when I flipped to over 200 lbs.

Actually, I hadn't thought about it but my OB used lbs for my weight at each visit.