Another Phoenix Flies!!

[Phoenix]

Reigan Mackenzie Green arrived yesterday at 9:52 AM and tipping the scale at 8lb.

Mum and bub are both doing well, and I get to enjoy 4 weeks of paternity leave now :D

[digger]

congrats
hope mum and bub have an easy trot!

(bottle of "infants friend" on hand!)

cheers
digger and clan

[d@rk51d3]

Congratulations!

Some quality landy time coming up ;)

[JDNSW]

Well done! :rulez:

John

[haggisbasher]

yay... congrats!:)

[fraser130]

Congrats!
Maybe we should merge our 2 threads!


Fraser

[abaddonxi]

Congratulations.

[scrambler]

Congrats, Phoenix.

Enjoy!

[Sprint]

congratulations!

[Rangier Rover]

Well done:D, When I saw the thread, I was expecting a cut down aircraft:o:wasntme:

Sounds a good size too:eek: All the best to you all:)

Tony

[Shonky]

PICS or it didn't happen! :p

[one_iota]

Congratulations and well done. (insert champagne emoticon)

[LandyAndy]

Well done!!!!
ENJOY!!!
Andrew

[markus_80]

congrats mate best wishes to you and bec.

at 8lbs you know she's a green baby :p

you guys take care and have a blast

Mark

[cewilson]

Congrats again mate! :)

[VladTepes]

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/08/1359.jpg CONGRATULATIONS :twobeers:

to you and Rebecca.

And good for Callum - a little sister to torment !

[agrojnr]

Congrats guys well done:D

Adam

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Reigan Mackenzie Green arrived yesterday at 9:52 AM and tipping the scale at 8lb.

Mum and bub are both doing well, and I get to enjoy 4 weeks of paternity leave now :DCongrats Phoenix good thing you've got a decent back seat now.

Just one question: I've been a midwife for 30 years (+ a nurse for 36 years) and I've never weighed a baby in lbs, ever. Can you explain the 8lb for me? ;)

No offense to anyone, but it bugs me, we buy everything in metric, yet babies we all convert to imperial. Our children will never have any concept of what a pound is, yet we continue this archaic system just because that's what they did in Captain Cooks era and it is what our great grandmother remembers. (Inc. can you move this bit to "rants".)

[incisor]

No offense to anyone, but it bugs me, we buy everything in metric, yet babies we all convert to imperial. Our children will never have any concept of what a pound is, yet we continue this archaic system just because that's what they did in Captain Cooks era and it is what our great grandmother remembers. (Inc. can you move this bit to "rants".)

lighten up ...... this isnt the time or the place...

as for the main players..

best wishes to you all!

how come she does all the work and you get 4 weeks off richard?

[JDNSW]

Congrats Phoenix good thing you've got a decent back seat now.

Just one question: I've been a midwife for 20 years and I've never weighed a baby in lbs, ever. Can you explain the 8lb for me? ;)

No offense to anyone, but it bugs me, we buy everything in metric, yet babies we all convert to imperial. Our children will never have any concept of what a pound is, yet we continue this archaic system just because that's what they did in Captain Cooks era and it is what our great grandmother remembers. (Inc. can you move this bit to "rants".)

Almost everybody I know refers to birth weights in pounds, and rainfall in inches. It is simply a matter of using units that enable comparison with previous measurements. And I suspect that in your case you only have to go back to your mother not your great grandmother to find someone who uses birth weights in pounds.

But while you are about it, why not extend your rant to include the use of weight when you really mean mass? After all, the use of the more correct term was specified at the same time as metric units, yet there are still people who use weight when they mean mass.

John

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Almost everybody I know refers to birth weights in pounds,
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But while you are about it, why not extend your rant to include the use of weight when you really mean mass? After all, the use of the more correct term was specified at the same time as metric units, yet there are still people who use weight when they mean mass.

JohnYou are correct about mass V weight issue John, but they still record the "birth weight" in Government perinatal statistics. So I guess it's a use of soft science.

It all came home to me after two incidents, I caught a baby and took it outside to weigh and dutifully did the conversion to archaics (sic) and wrote both the measurement and the conversion on the cot card (pink card of course because it was a girl and that's what grandmother did), then went back into the delivery suite and announced the weight in ancient Englishes to mum and grandmum. The reply was "don't you have it is Kilos"? The family were of continental European decent and didn't understand British Empire measurements.
I was discussing things with a mum in the ante-natal ward and up came the issue of weight. The mum, a primary school teacher, had recently done a test with her class where she asked them to describe what a hundredweight (CWT) was the answer from each child was different and included a Volkswagen. Then one of her pupils asked "Miss, why are babies weighed different to everything else?"The pupil had no concept of pounds and yet we continue to announce the mass of babies in lbs, and this is probably the only time in a child's life that we do it. We need the Metric Conversion Board to come back and head slap any of us who announce a baby's mass in King Arthurs.

[UncleHo]

We need the metric conversion board to come back and rectify the stupidity of pandering to the people that can't count past the number of their fingers and toes, and return to the imperial measurements as used in US and GB

MILES, GALLONS, TONS,ACRES,Feet Inches,rods,roods,perch

good old AVOIRDUPOIS :D

[FenianEel]

Congrats Phoenix and Mrs Phoeny, great news...they really are a blessing;)

[Lotz-A-Landies]

We need the metric conversion board to come back and rectify the stupidity of pandering to the people that can't count past the number of their fingers and toes, and return to the imperial measurements as used in US and GB

MILES, GALLONS, TONS,ACRES,Feet Inches,rods,roods,perch

good old AVOIRDUPOIS :DHowever in health even the US uses the metric system for drugs. Far far safer.

Calculating child growth and milestones in Bodeca's are a nightmare, converting ounces to pounds then stones is fraught with risks of errors. Similarly caculating measurements in emergency procedures is quicker, easier and far safer if the measurements are continuous in a base 10 system. Herry VIII's are always a mixture of dozens, scores and perches. I have a kilderkin of saline solution and I need 5 drams measured in minims! Sorry doctor my syringe is calibrated in grains.