To expect a cafe advertising itself to mums of prescholars to have nappy changing facilities?

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The nearest they come to it is a sign in the toilet saying "please take your dirty nappy home with you".

Yet they have loads of toys, under 5 music sessions, under five meal boxes . They are based in a church and even have children's workers in 3 afternoons a week.

Being pregnant I'm obviously keen to find places I'll be able to easily take baby and having taken dd for a sandwich earlier thought I'd found the solution - until I saw the toilets.

I asked about it and was simply told they were unable to provide suitable facilities and the lady didn't know why. AIBU to think its a huge gap given their target market?

I found that a mat on the pushcahir was the bestway to go where there were no facilities. we do have a reclining pushcahir though, so not for everyone.

I find it incredibly painful changing nappies on the floor.

the dc had a phase of pooing at the end of toddler group. I worked out that it was quicker to whizz them the 5 minute home up the road than hunt through the change bag and set everything up in the facilities down the corridor. especially as ds has toddler diarrhoea and it is extremely runny and often necessitates having a bath as well.

I have always changed my ds's on my knee, in fact I could only change them side on. When I had ds1 (now 19) there was very rarely any changing facilities any where. I am really surprised at the amount of new mums now who don't use proper changing bags, you get a changing mat in them for just this situation. Why they don't use them is beyond me, I always thought is was so much better to have all of baby's stuff in a bag of their own, nappies wipes, snack, drink and a little toy, sometimes I even took a spare outfit.
I still change ds3 on my knee, he is a huge 5 with sn dh thinks I am mad!

To be fair - I had 3 DC in close succession - so have had lots of time (and motivation) to develop ninja skills. Hands free breastfeeding - now that was hard to learn.

It would be useful, yes. Why not organise the fundraising to make it happen?

Another thread about lack of changing facilities...how do you manage on a day out when there may be no public toilets? beach/park etc?

My bag has a plastic coated change mat, with that I kept an old cloth nappy or muslin. Both on floor, cloth on top of mat & away you go. mat gets wiped/cloth in wash when home. Failing that, on lap.

My last playgroup with dd1 was in an old church basement, one tiny toilet & store room & a large room for the actual group. I changed her on the floor, on 2 chairs pushed together & on my lap.

You need to be prepared to do all sorts with babies/kids. They tend to need changing at the most odd times!

Thank you Footprints for that description. I'd tried the knee and upright changes with DD facing me and given it up as pointless. I'll have a go your way and see if I can do it better!

Although FWIW OP I don't think it would be unreasonable to expect that sort of place to provide a table/shelf/flat surface to change a child on either. Most people carry folding mats or muslins to use. Fair point they have about disposal though.