This Invention provides for a color-coded infant measuring apparatus (10) that includes a linear head panel (14), an antimicrobial flexible mat (12) having its top end connected to the linear head panel (14), and a linear foot panel (16) connected to the bottom end of the flexible mat (12). The flexible mat (12) includes a system of linear measurement comprising a plurality of line segments of different lengths representing integer measurement increments and fractional measurement increments, wherein line segments having the same length are assigned the same respective color. A plurality of different nonlinear two-dimensional symbols represents different fraction measurement increments, wherein the same two-dimensional symbols are assigned the same respective color and different two-dimensional symbols are assigned different colors. The flexible mat (12) includes a linear measuring scale on the central vertical line (37).