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I had an interesting interaction with our daughter's pediatrician recently. Our daughter was born a bit early and spent the first couple of weeks in the NICU wh

I had an interesting interaction with our daughter's pediatrician recently. Our daughter was born a bit early and spent the first couple of weeks in the NICU where her feeding was watched very closely. All of her feedings were discussed and recorded in mls. A few weeks after we were out of the hospital we were at a routine checkup and when we reported her recent feedings in mls the doctor told us it was "time to start talking in ounces". Specifically she said that her preemie parents that continue to talk in mls tend to over-obsess over slight swings in the daily numbers. I found it intriguing that we'd been jumped out of the metric system for this, but it occurred to me that I never hear anyone talk about centiliters (the closest metric equivalent to an ounce). I guess my question is: what's on non-US baby bottles?

medecau 13y ago
Not sure what's on baby bottles but on beer bottles I see stuf like: - 2L - large coke - 1.5L - popular for large wate bottles and regular coke - 1L - Large beer bottles, medium coke and co., most family sized juice or iced tee packs, pretty much all regular milk. - 0.75 L - wine - 75cl - common in wine and some water - 50cl - mostly water and some larger beer cans - 33cl - regular beer bottle and cans - 25cl - I think I have seen beer and wine bottles of this size - 22cl - 20cl - "minis" are small beer bottles, lots of juice packs and chocolate milk Smaller is probably what they give babies, wouldn't find it weird to see mls used. I overhear my cousins talk about full doses or relative comparisons. e.g. "one flask", "more than yesterday", "he was hungry" Note that I rarely refer to the quatities. Usually I ask for a certain sized bottle like this: - "small bottle of water" - I expect 25-33cl but 50cl is not rare. Sometimes I get asked in reply, "half a liter"? - "a beer please" - 33cl superbock - "coke, plese" - .33 either can or bottle - sometimes a cup with too much ice and the total volume of 20cl but I know I'm getting fucked - "food for babies" - whatever I get handed...

medecau 13y ago

Not sure what's on baby bottles but on beer bottles I see stuf like: - 2L - large coke - 1.5L - popular for large wate bottles and regular coke - 1L - Large beer bottles, medium coke and co., most family sized juice or iced tee packs, pretty much all regular milk. - 0.75 L - wine - 75cl - common in wine and some water - 50cl - mostly water and some larger beer cans - 33cl - regular beer bottle and cans - 25cl - I think I have seen beer and wine bottles of this size - 22cl - 20cl - "minis" are small beer bottles, lots of juice packs and chocolate milk Smaller is probably what they give babies, wouldn't find it weird to see mls used. I overhear my cousins talk about full doses or relative comparisons. e.g. "one flask", "more than yesterday", "he was hungry" Note that I rarely refer to the quatities. Usually I ask for a certain sized bottle like this: - "small bottle of water" - I expect 25-33cl but 50cl is not rare. Sometimes I get asked in reply, "half a liter"? - "a beer please" - 33cl superbock - "coke, plese" - .33 either can or bottle - sometimes a cup with too much ice and the total volume of 20cl but I know I'm getting fucked - "food for babies" - whatever I get handed...