What is the instrument for measuring baby's weight called?

Answer 1

Moments after each of my children was born, an expert and highly trained obstetric nurse placed the baby on a large pan that was covered with a fresh 'receiving' blanket and connected to a complex electro-mechanical apparatus, to which in every case she referred as a "baby scale".

I was well aware that they were dumbing down the conversation to the level where a nervous and untrained new father might understand what was going on and what people were saying to him, so I didn't simply accept this low-class term blindly.

Later, as each child grew and I began taking them for regular appointments to see their baby doctor, I had the opportunity to investigate and acquire some of the lingo of the industry, in comparative leisure and in greater detail. I learned first that a 'baby doctor' is a full-sized adult who is a specialist in pediatric medicine, and who is referred to by his peers as a 'pediatrician'.

I also noticed that he had his own electro-mechanical apparatus in his examining room, similar to the one at the hospital, and upon which he placed each of my babies whenever we visited him. Summoning up the courage to ask him, I learned that the device is referred to as a "pediatric scale", at least among those who are in the know.