Weight Just A Minute

I know that people are waiting for brit stuff, but first I want to write about something that strikes me as pretty surprising. As a newborn, doctors like to keep pretty close track over David's weight. He was born at 7lb 7oz and subsequently dropped to 6lb 12oz which is completely normal. If he had lost any more weight the doctors would have been concerned but by his next appointment, David was already up to 7lb 1oz.

Why do I share all of this information with you? Because today, a visiting nurse came to our house to weigh David and her scale said that he still weighed 7lb 1oz. The fact that David hadn't gained any weight in several days wasn't an emergency, but the nurse felt that we should see our pediatrician just in case. As you can imagine, this didn't give Michelle and I any warm and bubbly feelings. When we arrived at the doctor's office a nurse re-weighed David. Low and behold, David weighed 7lb 6oz.

As you can imagine, Michelle and I were pretty relieved. However, we were also slightly disturbed. In a situation where a couple of ounces can make a pretty big difference, not to mention guide a course of medical action, how can scales be that far off? Maybe they should include a margin of on these things and save us all a lot of worry.