Misreading statistics
A recent(ish) study of births reported a mean birth weight of the sprogs involved as 3210g (or just over 7 lbs).
According to the scales in my bathroom (which I suspect are not 100% accurate), this means that I have, um, passed 2.4 babies in the past week. Seventeen lbs of, well, you know.
I’ve been to see Dr Quack and he was equally sceptical about the scales’ figures but was concerned enough to take a sample of my B rhesus negative for testing.
Although I may well have lost over a stone in the past week, there’s still a fair way to go before I get worried by being too light.
“Yes, but I’m not prepared to go through another five weeks of that.”
“Fair enough.”
His interim diagnosis was a bad bout of IBS and his advice was to take some loperamide as required.