Salter Baby, Toddler, Pet Scale, Perfect Readings for Before and After Feedings and Parents and Breeders, 3-in-1 Function, Designed for Infants, Toddlers, and Pets, Hold Button, 44 LB Capacity, White

We bought this back in 2008 to help track our breastfed and slow-to-gain weight daughter's growth. We loved being able to compare her measurements at home rather than guessing and estimating and waiting till her next appointment. As she grew, she loved standing on it and asking how much she weighed, then dancing around shouting "I'm heavy as a boulder!". She's finally outgrown it at the 44 lb. maximum now at age 6, but this sturdy scale lives on. It's absolutely fantastic for weighing packages for things we've sold on eBay and elsewhere -- no waiting in line at the Post Office to pay for shipping labels, we can just weigh the packages and print 'em up at home in confidence. Pros: - It turns on and zeroes itself quickly - I like that you can turn it off rather than using up extra battery time while it times out - Our daughter thought it looked like Mickey Mouse which made it fun to stand on (some additional decoration with dry-erase markers encouraged that, too) - a fabulous second life as a postal scale! - it's taken a lot of jumping on, banging, being dropped, and other misadventures and still does an accurate job - exact enough (to the 1/2 oz.) for almost everything we've ever used it for, from child to packages :) Cons: - it's a little heavy Guess that's it. A sturdy, reliable, great little scale and quite reasonably priced. Update 2021: 8 years later, this scale is still a champ. We use it to weigh packages mostly, and it's quick, accurate, perfect!

I first became interested in purchasing my own baby scale when I decided to have my 2nd baby at home. I love numbers and stats, so I love watching my babies grow. I wanted to have something to weigh the baby at birth, but also weigh him/her on a monthly basis, along with occasional "weight checks" for my older children. I checked around for a ton of different reviews on all sorts of scales, but digital and non-digital. I originally purchased a Redmon Weigh To Grow non-digital scale for babies and toddlers, thinking that I wanted to avoid digital so that I could see the weight myself and determine the accuracy. But that was a mistake. I never got anywhere NEAR the same reading twice with the Redmon Scale. So I decided to go spend a little bit more on the highly touted Salter Baby/Toddler Scale. I am SO glad I did!! Shortly after receiving it, the first time I used it was prior to heading to the post office, so I weighed my packages on it before leaving and then weighed them again on the postal scale. They were both exactly the same, to the half an ounce! This thrilled me because now I could use the scale to ship packages as well, without over-estimating so much anymore (I had been using a 5lb max kitchen scale before, and it wasn't digital so I always rounded up a few ounces). I've been weighing my children on it regularly ever since, mostly just for fun, and I can put them on there 5 times in a row and always get the same weight. The scale has a capacity of up to 44 lbs and is incredibly accurate. The contoured baby tray is easily removable. It only requires 1 9v battery for operation, and shuts off automatically after a period of non-use, which saves battery live and keeps the scale calibrated accurately. I have owned mine for over 5 years now and have only replaced the battery once despite regular use. I really love the "hold" feature on the scale base. It makes it less difficult to have to remember the weight, and it's also so much easier if have something on the scale (e.g. a package) that blocks a good view of the digital LCD display.

I've only had this scale for a couple of days now, but I love it so far. We use it for monitoring the weight of our baby boy. I tested this against one of those really expensive scales at the doctor and it gave basically the same weight. The one at the doctor office has a resolution of 0.1lbs, while this one's is 0.5lbs. We first weighed our kid at home using this scale, and it sort of went back-and-forth between 9lbs 7.5oz and 9lbs 8.0oz. We then went to the doctor and weighed him and the expensive scale showed 9lbs 7.7oz. You can't get much closer than that. Some other reviews of this scale complain that it's hard to read because the weight shown fluctuates a lot. For me, I thought it was just fine. The baby wasn't doing jumping jacks, but he wasn't sitting still either. And the weight shown does move around a little bit as the little guy wiggles, but I didn't find it difficult at all to read the weight. I could imagine that if a baby is pitching a fit and flailing, it might be a little tricky to get an accurate reading, though. It's nice that the readout for pounds is pounds and ounces (e.g. 9lbs 7.5oz), whereas some other scales just show decimal pounds (i.e. 9.47lbs). Obviously it also has an option to output kilograms, for you people from those backward countries :) The battery compartment was a little shallow for the 9V battery that I had. Had to push a little hard to get the cover back on, and it bulges a little bit, but I don't think it's a big deal. I imagine there's some variation in 9V battery size, or maybe I put it in wrong. It doesn't seem like a problem, though.

While likely not as accurate as the ones used by the Doctors, it is overall very useful to have and simple to use. Very sensitive too. It picks up the weight of a swaddle wrap. It needs a single 9 volt battery, which you have to buy yourself. I was worried about our recent new born who had lost over 10% of her bodyweight. And she didn't seem to be gaining as fast over the following 2 weeks since birth. But by checking with this, it definitely motivated us to keep going at it with the feeding (mainly spooning milk in between feedings). I'm happy to say, it definitely helped push us over the edge for our daughter gaining weight as recommended and milk now producing better as one of the days, her weight actually went down, so we really blitzed it after a lower weighing which really helped turn the corner. It also took the anxiety out of the Dr. Visits and relying only on them to measure the weight.

Sturdy and good design

La báscula ha durado 4 años, funciona perfecto para pesar bebés y niños pequeños, ya que se remueve el portabebé. Muy precisa y fácil de usar en casa.

Good

Works great! Easy to use! Perfect for keeping track of my babies weight gain. I have used it for weight before and after a feeding to gauge how many ounces my daughter ate while breastfeeding and it seems very accurate. Only thing different about this scale to ones in our health offices is that the scale doesn't average the weight so the numbers change anytime baby moves, which is what the hold button is for but if you hit it while they squirm you can freeze it on a much higher weight than they actually are.