Changing nappies on airport seats

I guarantee you won't let your dc sit in poo in order to appease others' comfort.

You were horrible and as others have said, you have no idea what you’d actually do in that situation as you don’t have kids.

Maybe some people have lower standards for their children’s care but I’d never let one of mine sit in a poo nappy for the 45mins+ it takes to board and take off. I’d do everything possible to avoid changing mine in public like that as it’s not great at all, but you say there was a queue and this poor woman may have been worried she’d miss her flight.

Also lots of babies won’t feed in a dirty nappy, which they need to on a plane to help their little ears, would you honestly rather a young baby was in pain with a dirty nappy than a quick change using a mat? Have you ever actually changed a poo nappy? It’s perfectly possible to do it without getting poo anywhere.

Since you’ve decided to drop feed about your condition, why didn’t you say “excuse me I have a radar key if you’d like to borrow it” instead of being nasty to a new mum.

If you become a mum yourself you will learn how horrible and upsetting it can be when you feel like you’re being judged for doing your best for your child and you will probably feel deeply embarrassed about what you did.

Show a bit of kindness next time or you might come across someone like me who’d have told you to fuck right off and judging by your responses it seems like you can dish it out but not take it!

Haha, the thought that you'd just ask your OH to change the nappy because there's never a queue for the men's 😂

Rubbish of you to berate her. Really horrible actually. I hope you look back and cringe when you've got kids.

But there was. There was a massive queue and she was about to get on a flight.

@KittyCooWhy would she speak up to you specifically? Were you sat on the seat she was using? Or did you want her to stand up and announce it to the whole gate?

That’s the point you think you made. What proportion of the people who wouldn’t change their child in a public seating area, would also think it’s their place to confront someone doing it? If I had been there I probably would have thought ‘that’s a bit grim’ of the nappy situation, but I would have judged you much more harshly.

You may well never change your future child in a public seating area, but perhaps you’ll make some parenting choices you never thought you would or that others will disagree with. When you’re in a stressful situation and exhausted after surviving on 5 broken hours of sleep for months, I hope someone shows you more kindness than to berate you for something they think you’re doing wrong.

Yeah I’d have said all that a few years ago too 👍🏻

Most of us think it's gross and wouldn't do it. But most of us would have some level of empathy and wouldn't dream of berating her.

Because once you have kids you realize just how challenging basic stuff can be and how you need to make less than perfect decisions sometimes.

Totally agree with this, you dont have kids. Fine if you think its gross but maybe she was struggling getting through an airport and making a flight with an infant. Its really tough and if you haven't done it you just wouldn't know. Parents often have to do things like this when in an emergency, if she had gotten into the queue for the bathroom she probably would have missed her flight. The fact you felt the need to berate her about it is horrible to be honest, she hardly got poo all over the seat or anything so realistically it only bothered you in any way by you looking that way.....so maybe next time try to put yourself in her shoes and ignore

I take everything on here with a pinch of salt to be honest, it's the only way ❤️ and nobody should listen to me.

But to berate me as I haven’t had children yet and say that I don’t understand, I do find a bit degrading

Why? If you havnt had children.... you don't understand? Its not a dig, it's just factual

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I wouldn't change my child in public, but I can see why some people would in certain circumstances.

Because those parents are MN-fucking-perfect. 🙄

They might do yes but I think the OP made a rookie mistake in admitting she's not yet a parent, because that's all posters are focusing on - when there are literally parents saying they wouldn't do this.

Plane was about to board. Likely she was afraid she'd miss boarding.
Once aboard it would be chaos to get into the toilet.
I'd change my baby right there, too.
Traveling with littles/babies is difficult. Understanding, support and an offer of help go a long way.

Using words like "disgusting" says more about the OP that the poor mum obv doing her best for her child.
FYI dirty nappies (poo) cause rashes which are bloody awful. Mum wouldn't have wanted baby sitting in poo for too long until convenient for everyone else to change baby. And you can't tell a baby or child to hold their poo in or just wait for a while to get clean.

If it was a wee I couldn’t care less

if it was a newborn nappy I couldn’t get worked up

if it was a toddler poo nappy yes that really ought to be changed in a toilet

The plane was boarding, and there was a long queue for the toilets. So the choice is, change baby quickly and catch the flight, or use toilet changing facilities and potentially miss the flight. I know which I'd choose, and I bet the vast majority of parent would too.

Nope you either change in the privacy of your house or car, or you change in a changing station. Or possibly outside somewhere fairly remote... never anywhere else.

Don't be so silly. With a changing mat the baby's nappy and arse did not come into contact with the seat at all.

Some people are pretty disgusting in their habits, as this woman was. Nothing new though.

I really feel for the mum who you berated. She was just looking after her little one. We all have preconceived ideas of what we will or won’t do when we have our children… how wrong most of those are when the time comes.