Salter Electronic Baby and Toddler Scale - Digital Infant Scale with Removable Tray, 44 lb Capacity, Hold Function and Zero Tare Feature for Accurate Weight Tracking

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.

Our one-year-old has "failure to thrive" (is underweight), and it was driving me crazy to wonder if we would have good/bad news when we went to the doctor to check his weight gain. Also, I needed a way to record how many ounces of milk he gets from me when he nurses. After reading the reviews here, I bought this scale, and I agree that it seems very accurate for the money. The scale comes almost assembled, but you do have to attach the baby tray if you will be using it in that mode (or attach rubber plugs if you will be using it in toddler mode). It requires one 9V battery, not included. The scale's operation is very intuitive, and there is also a clear instruction booklet. The materials seem mostly sturdy, but I did subtract a star because it could have been less rough/plastic looking if they had made the baby tray of the same chunky-looking style of plastic, or something padded, as they made the toddler scale part. The accuracy of the scale seems fine. I tested it with some household objects with stated weights. For instance, I weighed a "4 oz (112 g)" applesauce cup, and it came out as 4.5 oz and 120 g. This might even be more accurate than promised (1/2 ounce) because of the weight of the cup, which I doubt is included in the manufacturer's weight claim. I have not yet had a chance to compare my son's weight at home with his weight on the same day at the doctor's office, but I did do it within one day, and the weights were within two ounces, which seems like it could be a normal fluctuation due to how much water he'd drunk, etc. My baby likes to sit in the tray, so it must be fairly comfortable. :) CAUTION: For best results, use this product only on Planet Earth. (Tee hee I teach physics and couldn't resist!)

Great product that can be used for measuring how much milk your baby gets for breastfeeding, but requires some practice because the baby moves and accuracy to the 0.5 ounce matters. First I put a pillow or towel for place to rest head on. You can zero before weight. I put baby on side because they tend to move less vs back. The key is the hold button. What you have to do is put your finger over the hold button and look at your moving baby. Did not look at the reading while doing this focus on the baby...that was my mistake. The moment the baby stops moving even a split second hit the hold button. Repeat 2 to 3 times to determine consistency. You can put a pacifier in thd babys mouth to calm them. It could take some practice but after a while u can get consistent readings. Additionally it is better a put scale on a harder surface we used cardboard. Other things I found you have to consider is wet diapers. I found weight diapers can add up to 5 ounces. My babies diapers is generally wet at start of feeding and we change him sometime midway. So I weigh the wet diaper and compare to a dry diaper. Additionally we wrap him so we weigh the swaddle if necessary. Hope this helps. Weighing with a swaddle is easier since he moves less. One last tip is I am usually concerned he eats will before bed so i remember the end weight after feeding before he sleeps. Than the next night I try to achieve an end weight close to that. Works generally well except for growth spurts. Amd my baby generally pees and poops just about everything out before he sleeps.

With breastfeeding you never know how much food your baby is getting, and with twins the problem is compounded by needing to schedule feedings, not remembering who pooped when etc. Seeing them gain every day really helps put my mind at ease. I weigh my boys every couple of days and see their weights go up by the recommended 0.75 ounces per day that infants are supposed to gain. I know enough not to freak out if they don't gain in 2 days, but I do like seeing the overall pattern, and being able to plug their weights into an online infant weight calculator and know they are gaining like they should be. My boys were in the 18th% and 25th% by weight 3 weeks ago, and now at almost 7 weeks they are in the 25th% and 32nd%. So I know they are not only gaining along their curve, they are actually gaining slightly over it. The scale measures to 0.5 pounds, which is enough to see a daily difference. I try to aim more for using the scale every other day or so to avoid being worried over nothing, but waiting every 3-4 weeks until my next pediatrician visit is just too long. I would hate to go in and find out my guys were significantly underweight. I think this is almost a requirement for breastfeeding moms, and just as essential as the breastfeeding pillow, dual electric breast pump, or the nursing cloak which I have also bought. In theory you don't need it, but for optional equipment it is a VERY good one to have. It helps you know what is going on with your little one, and assures you they are gaining well BEFORE it becomes a problem that your doctor has to inform you of.

This product is superb. Excellent build quality, great precisions and accuracy, and the price is unbelievable. My wife and I have been using this scale to track our newborn baby's daily weight and the scale has amazed us with how well it performs. This scale delivers consistent weight readings again and again, unlike most home-use digital scales. The ability to zero out before weighing our daughter means we can cancel out the weight of her diaper and a towel for her to lay on. This way she can be comfortable while being weighed accurately. We've also found it very useful to weight her before and after she is [...]-fed so we can know exactly, down to the 1/2 ounce, how much milk she has consumed. Everyone told us it was impossible to know how much milk she was getting and to simply count her dirty diapers. With this scale the impossible becomes possible! We can even zero out a clean diaper, and then weigh a dirty diaper to see how much her pee and poo she passed in her diaper. The sky is truly the limit with this scale. In terms of build quality, I'm confident this scale will last many years into the future. It has a very durable feel to it. As I said above, I am shocked this scale doesn't cost much, much more.

My cat has needed to lose weight and I was getting sick of the stress of weighing myself and then weighing him (and surely being picked up stressed him out too), so I ordered this to make our lives easier. I thought I would need a blanket to put on the weighing area to get him comfortable with the idea of being weighed on the scale, but to my surprise he was perfectly fine lying down on it without one. The readings have been accurate with the readings I got by subtracting his weight from my own when I used my bathroom scale to weigh him. Only issue I can say I have with it is that the pounds are measured with ounces rather than decimals and I had trouble making heads or tails of the ounces at first, but getting a kilogram reading and converting it to pounds isn't so bad. So if you don't have a baby or don't intend on having a baby but happen to have a small animal whose weight you need to track like I do, this is a worthy investment!

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.