To watch how the child grows and becomes more mature, very interesting and exciting! When our parents were small, their moms and dads often made nicks or marks on the door jambs. To detect such traces it is possible and today in apartments where for decades there has been no repair. Today, such a variant of measuring growth is no longer relevant. But there is also a worthy alternative - special children's gauges, devices that allow you to accurately track how your child grows without damaging the interior.
Where are the rostomers used?
The device for measuring growth can be found in any pediatrician's office. In the conditions of a medical institution, this is a device made in a strict laconic design that allows you to accurately determine the patient's parameters. Interestingly, in modern hospitals, not only classical children's heightometers are used, but also modern electronic ones. Such devices can be directly connected to the computer and are immediately able to transfer the received information to the system. Household non-medical heightometers are performed in a bright, attractive design for children. Usually it is a large colorfully designed "ruler" made of plastic, wood or cardboard. Such a growth meter will be appropriate in the children's room, preschool or summer camp. Sometimes devices for determining growth are also used in public places, for example in amusement parks or water parks. They are necessary so that the staff can quickly determine whether a young visitor can go down the hill or ride a carousel that have physical / age limits.
Determine the growth of infants
For the first time the growth of a child is measured in a few minutes after it was born in the maternity hospital. Usually a baby scale and a rostomer are installed in the birth chambers. And as soon as the umbilical cord is cut and the baby is wiped, the doctors fix the indicators with which he was born. The norm for newborns is the growth of 46-56 cm. A children's growth meter for the youngest is a device with a horizontally arranged scale. Often the growth meter is built into the scale. As soon as the child learns to sit confidently, its growth can be determined with the aid of a special medical growth meter with a stand-chair. The growth of children who have already celebrated their first birthday is usually measured with a vertical device.
Medical growth-meters for children
Instruments for measuring growth in hospitals are made more often from metal. Classic mechanical models consist of a footrest, a measuring scale and a limiter freely moving along it. Due to their impressive weight, these devices are considered stationary. The child alone can not knock down the growth meter, the simplicity of the construction guarantees its durability. But usually medical rostomere simply set in a convenient place without additional fixation, and if necessary they can be moved.
Products from wood, plastic and other materials
No wonder they say that children grow by leaps and bounds. The home childrenschrometer, housed in the child's room, will become not only a stylish element of the interior, but also an excellent assistant for parents in observing changes in the growth of the baby. Today, you can find on the market such tools made of wood and plastic, as well as some other materials. The child's soft soft-growth meter, on a fabric base, with a decor made of textile elements, looks original and cozy. And if you want, you can find a bright and original measuring device made of polyurethane foam. Unlike medical rostomere, home have a simplified design, most often they are a decorative dial, which is attached to the wall.
Cardboard gauges and interior stickers
A growth measuring device having a solid base requires special fixing on the wall. If you do not want to nail a rostomer or fix it in another complicated way, pay attention to the lightweight options. You can measure the growth of a child using a special sticker made on self-adhesive film or cardboard. Such rostomery are as compact as possible, do not require any complicated "installation". In this case, the cardboard variants are quite dense, and if desired they can be removed from the wall and stored as a memory when they cease to be relevant. Rostomers of this type are produced by many companies, and if you wish, you can choose the design best suited to a particular room.
How to make a device for determining the growth of their own hands?
If you want and have a small amount of free time, you can make a growth meter for the nursery with your own hands. Start by creating a sketch. The growth meter can be made in the form of an even rectangle or have a complex shape - a tree, a fairy-tale castle - everything depends only on your imagination. At this stage, it will be useful to determine and with the material for manufacturing. Suitable cardboard, plywood, polystyrene foam of medium thickness. Try to immediately decide whether you have a stationary or mobile rostomer, and in advance, consider the option of fastening / support. Transfer the template to a piece of selected material and cut out the shape. Then you need to decorate your growth meter, and in the end to apply a measuring scale to it. Use as a sample a regular ruler, watch only then, to carry the division as accurately as possible. As for design - the device can be decorated in a simple style or, on the contrary, be richly decorated. As a sample, you can choose any photo of the child's growth meter from our article and slightly change the decor in the process of work to your liking.