When you had your babies (in the UK)

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

Kilos. I asked for it in English, so got pounds.

I was told both kgs & pounds and ounces.

Youngest is 21 Weighed in kg then converted by Midwife

Kilos but I asked them to translate that to pounds which they did

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Exactly this. Bar cooking, I use lbs and ozs

Ds's weight was given to us in kilos and I Treherbert saying that's what the dog weighs as we'd been to the vet a few days before. DH converted as bar gym weights and the dogs weight I've no idea about kilos, I don't use them

It's much easier to scale quantities up and down if you cook in metric.

Lbs and Oz for DS1 9 years ago and in grams for DS2 6 month ago which I found very weird.

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Lbs but then everything else weighed in kgs iirc

Lbs, 21 years ago at a teaching hospital in London.

Both, kilos and lbs years ago. Can't understand why people younger than me are using imperial measurements. I'm in my 50s and was taught in metric. I can't even work in pounds and ounces. The only imperial measure I use is miles, haven't really got much choice.

My parents make me laugh, don't understand Celsius, rage against metric. So I ask them what temp does water boil at - 100 degrees apparently, hmm, and what temp does it freeze at - 0 degrees!

Kilos. I freaked out as I befuddled and just assumed it would be pounds and panicked that she was 2lb something.

And I always use imperial when cooking.

Kgs, in 2016/19. Very easy to convert though. I'm another who works in both systems.

I work in obstetric theatres quite frequently and nearly all parents ask for the kg weight to be "translated," which I quite like doing!

Child born in Reading, 1997 and birth weight was recorded in kilos.

Child born in Bolton, 2001 and birth weight was recorded in lbs and oz.

How is everyone baking in 1lbs and ounces. Do sixteenths and all that even work on digital scales.
I went into an industry where components are measured in mm and cubic metres. It's so much easier to scale in metric, working in 12ths or whatever seems crackers.

Ds 2000 weighed in grams, 815 and were reluctant to convert for us.

DD 2005 weighed in lb and oz, different hospital. Kilos were probably noted somewhere but I don't remember seeing it.

Mine were all weighed in grams

I've got a picture of the computer screen for the weighing scales they put dd on when she first came out, it's set in pounds

I think it's probably because a lot of us have an "newborn weight scale" in lbs in our head. Under six and a half lb, you buy a present of clothes from the "tiny baby" range. Over about nine and a half, you wince.

If somebody said their baby was 3.56 kg I have no idea where that fits in the scale, despite doing a job where I weigh a lot of things in kilos!

I can convert it, but I don't have that immediate "that's big/small/average".

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Digital scales in the UK can be set to either kilos or lbs/oz. There's usually a switch or a button or something. I bought a set of digital bathroom scales a few weeks ago, which had instructions on how to change it.

Everything was still imperial when I was growing up, so that's what we learned at school. We were also taught metric meaurements though. Anyway, most of my cookery books are in pounds and ounces.

Kg

Recorded in kilos but the midwifes in the operating theatre gave it in pounds verbally for both.

It was officially in kilograms (ie on his written records) but we were told the imperial equivalent by the midwife. That was over 40 years ago.