My two were Evan, 3690 g (1984) and Jeffrey, 4390 g (1986). This was at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in San Francisco. Kaiser didn't do pounds/ounces and neither did the State of California birth certificate. And that was back then!
Carleton From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of Pat Naughtin Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 04:06 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:45394] Isaac Newton - birth mass On 2009/07/16, at 7:22 AM, Bill Potts wrote: O.K., Stan, how do you put a 50 m insert in a 50 yard pool? Reminds me of the old expression about putting a quart in a pint pot. Bill Dear Bill and Stan, Your reference to the old - now out-dated - pints and quarts reminded me of a reference to the birth of Isaac Newton. It is said that when he was born prematurely he wasn't expected to live because he was too small. The expression at the time was that he would fit inside a quart pot. See: http://space.about.com/cs/astronomyhistory/a/isaacnewtonbio.htm and http://www.lycos.com/info/isaac-newton--woolsthorpe-manor.html for details of Isaac Newton's early life. As a quart was roughly the same size as a litre we can guess that his birth mass must have been close to 1000 grams - or perhaps even less than this - to fit into a litre container. I suppose that you could compare Isaac Newton with the world record small baby. At 260 grams, this baby would go close to fitting into a standard 250 millilitre kitchen cup. See http://news.dcealumni.com/214/1002-worlds-smallest-baby-sent-home By the way, my rule of thumb for babies is: Normal baby 3500 grams Small baby 2500 grams Big baby 4500 grams Cheers, Pat Naughtin Author of the forthcoming book, Metrication Leaders Guide. PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com <http://www.metricationmatters.com/> for more metrication information, contact Pat at pat.naugh...@metricationmatters.com or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
