to be furious that DP and DS got driven out of a baby changing room by a group of rude obnoxious women?

They probably didn't have fathers for their own babies and felt freaked out by the sight of one.

[Total bitch]

Good point about how OP's DH was "driven" out.

I suspect it's down to the different ways men and women "do" aggression. Blokes that would have no problem decking someone who spilt their beer, get quite intimidated by social contexts that women find vaguely uncomfortable.

exactly pan, how can you be driven out of a room? we're not in school, we've all got shitey nappies to change...

Extreme and IME (as an 'involved' dad) unusual.........any 'stuff' from anyone would also be met with a wall of quietly assertive dadness. In this circs would contentedly wait, and put the 'glares' down to a lack in social skills and awareness, poor loves.

Sounds like he interrupted a private conversation tbh, funny location but it happens

i just think it's bonkers suszy, that's all. doesn't make an ounce of sense. man walks into baby changing room, women are talking, they stop talking. fine.
he then waits FIVE minutes and in that time they do not resume their conversation, glare at him, presumably over their shoulders cos they were conducting the longest nappy changes in the history of nappies?
why didn't he just say 'do you think you're going to be much longer?' i think it's more likely that he wasn't comfortable in that environment, that he stayed for thirty seconds and that they may have looked at him once or twice.

bewilderbeast I'd have been furious too.

When dts were younger dh used to take them into changing rooms, even if they said mother & baby rooms all the time. He was quite good and well trained in helping out in the nappy changing department. I am just glad he never came across a field of cows like yours did.

You need to think up some witty one-liners if he ever comes across this again.

YANBU but perhaps they were jealous that theyir DP wouldn't be doing what yours was about to be doing! as i can't think for a minute why any mother would look at a dad like that with baby in arms ready to change him, men holding babies is normally an ice breaker! i just don't understand where the glares came from or how they were justified, everyone had babies there.
i think they must have just have been a little bit odd

..er, ..why aitch?

they could be weird and rude and ...just plain slow too...
or acting like a rabbit in the headlights as a dad in changing area had just blown their tiny minds

and, er... unlikely...

weird women ... weird ways...

have seen loads of dads changing, caring for kids this is just plain rude...and weird..

but why? i don't understand the OP. why did they take longer than 5 mins to change their kids? why would they have been glaring? it doesn't make any sense... no-one spends any longer in a baby changing area than is strictly necessary.

Sorry, when I say separate areas for both genders...... I meant that there should be ONE area for changing that should be separate from either loos and should be for anyone to use.

Think we have a problem with this sort of thing in the uk. Pompous, oldfashioned attitudes....

DH has a real problem if he goes out with DD with his mate for a meal to the pub etc, as the changing bits are more often than not in the ladies' loos.

Time for separate changing areas for BOTH genders to change and feed their LO's.

there have been a couple of times when i've sent dh off to change ds and he's come back saying "The changing bit is in the ladies' loos."

becky x posts LOL!

I never understand these things- OK maybe in 1973 when my Dad proudly was the only man he knew to push me around town in my pram, but in 2007?? FGS

Only this day I had cause to mutter to dh that it was a shame he couldnt bath ds3 ( technically too old for baby bath but Sn so needed one) as the only one was in the Ladies Shower Block )just got back from camping).

Fortunately I also have a Dh who is, and always has been, involved with the kids, but is rude enough to really not give a damn about this sort of thing- they could be glueing a sign saying get out to him and he would continue to ignore it LOL!

DC troublemaker? Surely not!

LOL at DC the trouble maker!

Surely not?

YANBU - my dp got glaring and staring the other week at a mummy and daddy baby change, he was surprised at the mums but too stubborn to be frozen out plus dd had a seriously stinky poo!

Unless I was a very new first time mother struggling with breastfeeding, I wouldn't even notice a man in a baby changing room.

Such things are pretty rare, I'm an "active" father, and I don't think I've ever had any attempt to stare me out of a "parent" facility.

Must be said that some people interpret my general demeanour as "trouble maker", and this may deter such impoliteness.
If I was being stared out, it must be said that I would ask in a clear, slightly too loud voice what their problem was.
I might justify my response by asking who is next ?
What about people who are more easily intimidated than 14 stone of truculent bloke ?

Is the "wrong sort of mother" next ?
Possibly an obvious asylum seeker ? Maybe a woman in daft Moslem gear ?

I've come across lots of men changing their babies & toddlers. At weekends it's probably 50:50. These women were weirdos.