Changing nappies on airport seats

This is assuming there's a changing table in the men's loo which there often isn't.
Otherwise you'd be putting a tiny baby on the floor in a mens toilet.
Absolutely no one is going to do that with their baby. You might think it rude to use the seats but if you have a baby there's no way you'll be putting it on the floor in the men's loos.

I won’t go as far as lazy parenting - you’re changing a nappy. Not changing a nappy would be lazy.

I personally wouldn’t do it out in the open, not because of hygiene, judgement or any reason other than I don’t know what wrongun is looking.

This is the thing. Whatever the mother had done there would be complaints. If she'd waited and done it on the plane then there's be complaints about the smell - leaking mess even - and possibly a wailing baby during take off. Then there would complaints about how long it takes in the tiny plane loo with other people waiting. If she had gone and waited in the queue and told the stewards as you suggested the. someone would be complaining when the flight was delayed or because she was boarding late and causing disruption etc. It's stressful travelling with a baby and youre thinking on your feet in these scenarios. You might not always make the perfect choice, but I doubt it was done without so e embarrassment and stress. I'm sure she was careful to clean up as best she could afterwards.

I’m sure when OP does, she’ll make a better parent than those who inflict their precious darlings’ nappy changes on other travellers. I’m guessing that you’re one of them who thinks this is acceptable. It isn’t, it’s vile 🤢🤮

I think a fair few people would be pretty shocked if they knew what lives on public seats

Of course it is. Still emergencies happen. Still I wouldn't have berated her. Perhaps the nappy was leaking badly and it was the choice between waiting and making it worse-or a quick change.

No she won’t. It sounds like she has standards!

You say there was a que for the bathroom though, so if she was stood next to you with her child stinking rather than just quickly changing the baby you would have been ok with that?! It’s absolutely discusting to have a go at a mother who’s just trying her best.

@KittyCoo I agree with you. Very gross to change any nappy in public. When was the mother going to wash her own nappy germ hands? Did she go on the plane straight after touching hand rails , overhead storage seat belt etc

I’ve had three children and flown all over the world with them. There are no excuses- it’s just laziness, entitlement and lack of standards.

I managed to raise three boys without ever changing a nappy - especially a pooey one - in a public place not meant for baby changing, @themerchentofvenus. If there is a changing place close by, why is it OK to inflict the smell of a pooey nappy on people sitting around you?

Some scuzzy individuals change pooey nappies on the tables of restaurants or cafes - do you condone that?

Due to board, you said theres a long queue for bathroom, she used a mat, if she had gone into the toilets there is probably 1 changing mat between how many people so she would have been ages, by which time the child would have been screaming - it's hard enough to travel with children let alone a 4/5 month old, I've changed mine over my knee when i've had too

She is a skank. No excuse. Airports have plenty of baby change (and more importantly HAND WASHING) facilities.

Exactly!!

Very rare for there to be changing tables in mens loos sadly.

Maybe dont look at a baby that isnt yrs having a really quick bum change.

Good of you "not to blame the child"

That's a completely different scenario.

A house environment is nothing like a busy stressful airport.

My cousin once tried to change his toddler's dirty nappy in the living room where we were all sitting, with a 'you don't mind do you?' Many years and several children of my own later I don't even slightly regret suggesting he used the bathroom instead.

I mean if there was a huge queue for the loo what do you expect? You can't reason with a tiny baby and tell them to stop waiting because there's a queue. Pretty sure most people would take a baby being changed on the seat over a baby wailing near them on a flight.
I also would prefer the loo to be kept free for people who actually need to go to the loo.
Hopefully she put a changing mat on the seat. I have a travel one attached to me babies changing bag. So I can use it in emergencies like that. Protects seats and wipes clean.

So your flight is about to board, there is a long queue for the toilet with the changing table, your baby has filled it's nappy... (that's what the OP says)

So you'd get in the long queue, change your baby and potentially miss your flight?

Personally I'd just trying and change the nappy there and then as discretely as possible. Or if it was that close to boarding I'd wait until I was on the plane then do it after take off in the toilets, although not very nice for the person in the seats next to me!

Yeah, this. Our local pub promotes itself as ‘family friendly’ but the only place to change a baby is on the floor of their disabled loo. And yes, don’t even get me started on the ones where there’s a lovely big space with a changing table but nowhere for you to have a quick wee!

Airport facilities can be pretty crap too and always very crowded. And then the plane. Tiny toilet cubicles with a little pull down shelf and changing a baby in there is a real pain in the arse.