To let childcare change toddler?

DamnitCarol · 19/05/2025 09:54

Change before you go, always.

Imisscoffee2021 · 19/05/2025 09:53

100% change

EndlessTreadmill · 19/05/2025 09:52

Of course you change her.
And if my child had done this on the way to nursery, I would have changed her MYSELF even when I got there.

TwoFeralKids · 19/05/2025 09:15

Change her obviously.

mynameiscalypso · 19/05/2025 09:15

I still remember when DS did a poo in the buggy on the way up nursery and how horrified I was to turn up there with him like that (there wasn’t anywhere on the way to pop in and change him). I think I offered to come in and change him myself!

PansyPottering · 19/05/2025 09:14

It’s so unreasonable that I can’t believe anyone would even think it. I’m imagining that this is something that a father with a Very Important Job Unlike The Rest Of You did. Changing your child’s nappy when necessary is a pretty basic parental job.

MidnightPatrol · 19/05/2025 09:11

I wouldn’t knowingly leave a child in a dirty nappy for ten minutes.

Oioisavaloy27 · 19/05/2025 09:10

You have time to post on here to ask people but not time to change her nappy? Get your priorities right and get her nappy changed before you take her

ERthree · 19/05/2025 09:07

I would say you need to get off mumsnet and parent your child.

user2848502016 · 19/05/2025 09:01

Sorry but change her before you leave. Only acceptable situation to hand them over with a dirty nappy is if they go on the journey there!

Strawbewwy · 19/05/2025 08:58

HotHoney · 19/05/2025 08:53

What? You’d leave them with a shitty arse just in case they did it again? That’s incredibly lazy parenting.

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No it was a joke. A play on words of "change the toddler" i.e. swap one child for a different one. Hence the "you may well find the new one" (new toddler)

I was just being silly.

To answer the OP properly, yes of course you change a poopy nappy ASAP.

MyOliveHelper · 19/05/2025 08:55

I'd be too ashamed to drop my child off in a shitty nappy. It happened when I've only noticed as we've arrived at the door and I'd stop and use their facilities before handing over my child.

My son's nursery were gossipy, unprofessional but that's how they were. O knew the names of the kids who would regularly turn up in pyjamas, unwashed, with a dirty nappy. They do talk. Just like midwives notice who showers in the ward and who doesnt.

K0OLA1D · 19/05/2025 08:55

Strawbewwy · 19/05/2025 08:51

I personally wouldn't change a toddler just for doing a poop in their nappy. You may well find the new one will repeat the same behaviour.

Depending on the age of the toddler though, you may consider potty training instead. Although this may also lead to delays in the future as they decide it is time to go to the loo just as it is time to leave the house.

You're lying for a reaction here surely to God?

HotHoney · 19/05/2025 08:53

Strawbewwy · 19/05/2025 08:51

I personally wouldn't change a toddler just for doing a poop in their nappy. You may well find the new one will repeat the same behaviour.

Depending on the age of the toddler though, you may consider potty training instead. Although this may also lead to delays in the future as they decide it is time to go to the loo just as it is time to leave the house.

What? You’d leave them with a shitty arse just in case they did it again? That’s incredibly lazy parenting.

HotHoney · 19/05/2025 08:52

Honestly. Have a little think here OP.

Bearbookagainandagain · 19/05/2025 08:51

I would be late and change them.

It's a pain, particularly when both our toddlers decide the best time to have a poo is the minute i ask them to put their shoes on! It used to be every other day for a few months, it delayed us at least 10 min per child.

I'm lucky that we have some flex on drop off times now with the childminder, and I have spare time between drop off and my regular train.
If it was a strict drop off time (e.g. my son's nursery school only has a 5 min window), or if I had to catch my train, then I'm not sure what I'd do to be honest.

Strawbewwy · 19/05/2025 08:51

I personally wouldn't change a toddler just for doing a poop in their nappy. You may well find the new one will repeat the same behaviour.

Depending on the age of the toddler though, you may consider potty training instead. Although this may also lead to delays in the future as they decide it is time to go to the loo just as it is time to leave the house.

jajajajajaja · 19/05/2025 08:43

Change her! I can’t believe you would even consider dropping her off without changing her.

Sahara123 · 19/05/2025 08:32

In the time it’s taken you to post you could have pretty much changed her ?

ButteredRadishes · 19/05/2025 07:53

Ugh... maybe it's one of those pervs that wants stories 🤢

No other posting history.

Pricelessadvice · 19/05/2025 07:52

Rather than post on here, how about change the poor child?

sesquipedalian · 19/05/2025 07:51

OP, do you honestly even need to ask the question?

ButteredRadishes · 19/05/2025 07:51

rushedround · 19/05/2025 07:09

Rushing around in the morning and smelled a suspicious whiff. Nursery about ten minutes away.

Is it reasonable just to let her be changed there? Or would you have made yourself a bit later and changed her?

What would have been reasonable is to change her nappy instead of taking the same amount of time to get your phone, load Mumsnet and write a post about it.

Would have taken the same amount of time!

Hercisback1 · 19/05/2025 07:50

Change her if you're still home.

ButteredRadishes · 19/05/2025 07:49

If she'd pooped on the way to nursery, and you realised at the door... That's one thing.

But knowingly leaving her in a poo nappy when you have a chance to change her... is neglect.