I thought it was a Mumsnet myth until today!

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Baby having its nappy changed in the middle of a cafe. 🤮 I didn't think it actually happened! This is the same cafe that also has signs in the toilets, to remind people that toilet roll goes in the toilet, not the bin. This is on a University campus of a well respected university!

I'm assuming OP doesn't have children, tbh.

Just wet ? Not a problem really is it? And you ‘saw everything’ well just don’t look !

Tbh if it was a dog friendly cafe as well like most are there probably worse that’ll happen in there my dd works in one and on average twice a week they have dog shit to clear up so a wet nappy being changed in a pushchair is nothing !

I changed my daughter 30 years ago on a mat in the vestibule of a railway carriage. Carriage was well over 20 years old then and long predated changing tables in the loo.

I object to strangers hitting me with bags of faeces, canine or otherwise.

Oh god, you can't bring this up on mumsnet 🤣

I agree though, from a hygiene-perspective I'd much sooner sit at a cafe table where the previous customers were changing wet nappies in the pram than one where the previous customers brought dogs with them.

And I don't even dislike dogs!

@HighlandCow78 Fair enough, but in the circumstance that the car was a 10 minute walk away, and obviously the table itself was protected by first my own waterproof changing mat and then a large muslin I'd spread under the mat, I took the table option in this case.

This is a thing? I walk a lot and have never ever had a bag of dog poo swung anywhere near my face??? Do you have a lot of enemies?

Why does pram need to be used? And if it does, take it outside. No excuse for this.

I wouldn't get too worked up about it but maybe that's because I'v seen someone whip out a portable potty in quite a nice restaurant! They put it on the spare chair at their table then proceeded to put their toddler on it

I just think as long as we're sensible it, then there's not really an issue.

Granted, I'd prefer to change my babies nappy in a clean toilet with a clean changing table...but that's not always possible.

I wouldn't go as far as changing my baby on a cafe table (although my husband did in the very early days when he thought the changing table was only in the ladies) but I think a quick change in the pram is ok. And thinking about it, even if it was on a table, as long as everything is contained, mat underneath and nothing too horrendous, then I think I'd be okay with that. As I'd know it would probably be a last option!

I was on a flight a few weeks ago. The person sat across the aisle from me changed their baby’s nappy on their lap. I looked away but god the smell was terrible! But it got worse!! They then put the folded but unbagged nappy in the seat pocket in front of them 🤮. This was mid flight when going to the toilet was an option!

Is this a reverse ?

Not everyone has a car! We had a similar situation in a restaurant in Greece recently and only changed it on the table at the instructions of the server.

I walk at night, around the fields. It doesn't happen often, but I have been smacked in the face by a full dog poo bag. Grim.

Ive only done this once with a wet one and it was due to the ‘accessible’ toilet being full of mop buckets and tables, I would have left the pram outside and used the changing table but it was filthy and covered in cleaning bottles 😑😑😑

Oh yes.....
My now ex husband didn't tell me that I couldn't flush tampons. I had no idea their home was on a septic tank. His Mum told me. It wasn't a problem, but I was a little embarassed.

nb I know it's apparently never been OK to flush tampons, but this was not widely known until fairly recently I think.

if its a quick nappy change, i've done the grandbaby at the table.. he's been in his pram and its bish, bash, bosh.. job done...

i was in costa today and grand baby needed an more thorough change, and i went into the baby change facility.. which also happens to be the only toilet and its set up for disabled persons too, so pretty multi-functional.

someone actually knocked on the door quite persistently, i was half way through a change and i reach over and opened the door to be met by an angry woman who wanted to use the toilet. i explained i was changing babies nappie and she actually told me that she was disabled and needed the toilet!

i was very impolite and said, sorry you will have to wait.. i then did the nappy change as quick as i could and left.. she was stood blocking my way out glaring at me!!

so damned if you do, damned if you don't

This poster did have a car.

OMG yeah I don't do the night walking....too scary without the bag of dog poo in the face added in.

I once saw a lady doing it in a softplay and I was a bit 😮😳 They had a baby change toilet 10 meters away. She just plopped baby on the table (where someone else may be eating from later that day) and changed it.

What’s the well respected university have to do with it?

If people are disgusting then they will be disgusting no matter what cafe they are in. They could be in the middle of Harrods and it doesn’t make them less disgusting.

As a student teacher I accompanied the class on a school trip ( think it was to a zoo). Several parents met their children there, chaos trying to check who had a parent, who didn’t. Eventually sat all the kids down in the lunch room which was open to the cafe full of customers. Two of the mums decided to change their babies nappies on the table they were sitting at along with other parents and children, several of them eating. 🤢

I would always use a bathroom if it was accessible and there was a changing table but somebody changing a wet nappy in a pram really doesn't bother me.

But then I've had to change a shitty toddler nappy by the airport gate and couldn't have cared less if somebody wasn't happy about it! No better alternative as I wasn't making him sit in it for an unknown length of time. Plane was delayed and obviously he had a poo as we were boarding and plane toilets not usable until in the air. I found a corner, asked the staff if it was ok or they had a better option (like making an exception for me to use the plane loo seen as there was still no take off time) and got DP to block the view!

Some changing rooms are badly designed, a lovely cafe by me has a bloody hand dryer over theirs so only really useable if I want to risk setting baby off crying!

Bloody hell OP, are you always this dramatic? No need for the constant !!

You really didn’t have to look, you say you think it was just a wet nappy but then say you saw everything. Just avert your eyes for 2 minutes and go about your day. Clearly it wasn’t a stinker or you’d know about it.

I thought this thread was going to be about the Mumsnet chicken tbh!
I thought the op has cracked the twenty meals from one chicken and was going to share her secrets as to how😄