When you had your babies (in the UK)

[MargotBamborough]

Did they tell you the baby's weight in kg or in lbs and oz?

Kilos. Very annoying.

We got told in grams and juat converted it ourself to lbs and ozs

Kilos and that was 20+ years ago

Kilos but there’s a conversion chart in the red book so it’s not a problem.

Both

Also worth adding that the conversion chart in the red book isn’t accurate so I found out weeks later that my baby’s birth weight was different.

Had my babies between 2003-2013 and they were weighed in kgs and then converted it for us to lbs and ozs.

Ibs and oz- 26 years ago, I wouldn’t have understood kilos !

Kilos, and we said we had no bloody clue and made them convert it

Both! My husband and the consultant are both from a country that uses metric and I am from and gave birth in a country that still uses imperial for babies weight so the nurse announced in pound and ounces and the consultant quickly converted for my husband.

Kilos. I’m a midwife and we always give the weight in kgs

Grams, trying to convert 2375 g to pounds was annoying!

Both. 1995.

I was born 37 years ago and I recently found the piece of paper from the hospital that my details were written on and it gives my weight in kg.

2016. Both.

They recorded it in kilos and might have told me this figure as well. But they also told me the approximate weight in pounds and that’s the one I’ve always remembered.

Pounds in 1999 kilos there after but always converted for us

2020 for my twins it was Lb and oz

So far this thread is confirming my suspicion that babies born in the UK are weighed in kilos and have been for decades, but the first thing most parents do is convert back into pounds and ounces!

This must be a deeply cultural thing.

I bet most people who do this quite happily cook and bake in metric.

I suppose it is a cultural thing. I’m 37 and I don’t think anything of buying milk by the pint and petrol by the litre. I weigh my cooking ingredients in grams but people always in stones and pounds. I measure driving distances in miles but will buy carpet by the square metre.

Kilos - and I never converted it to pounds and ounces - I don't know how these work!

All mine have been weighed in KG and subsequent weigh in at the baby clinic or HV are also KG but they convert it into Oz&LB when updating their red books.

Grams, which was fine for me as I go to the gym a lot 😁 & “the weight of a small dumbbell” meant a lot to several friends!

Why annoying? This isn't the 1950s.

Yes to all of this. And we are the same age. It's odd, isn't it?