to change dd's nappy on the bus?

[amieis]

When we are still 30 mins from home and she's whingey?

no one has actually answered why changing a WET nappy is so offensive

WET

WhiteWidow, will you answer me? what is distastfull about a a wet nappy change?

I'd have answered you if you'd directed a question at me. It's distasteful because it's a nappy full of piss. I thought that much would be obvious.

And to be honest it's not exactly the safest place for a nappy change is it

so getting off the bus and doing it in the rain, then waiting another hour for the next one would have been safer?

Amesis is there something wrong with my opinion? Because I'm sure you posted this here because you wanted it at some point.

I didn't say that did I. I never said get off and do it in the rain.

Talk about a loaded question. Geez of course 'm not sitting here thinking 'gee, I hope tomorrow a baby gets on a bus and gets nappy rash!'
I believe what people are saying here about their own children, but even though I am not a mother I am Irish and have changed enough nappies. IME this is just unheard of. I have one little cousin who was very prone to getting nappy rash, so we had her in cloth nappies and loaded her up with cream. It's very difficult for me to imagine a situation where the kid needed to be changed so badly that you would do something so..Well yeah uncouth and distasteful. Everyone else is made extremely uncomfortable. It does seem a 'for my convenience and if you think it's disgusting then you don't care about babies' type situation.

I've travelled on hour long bus rides with my little cousins and never had this problem. If I needed to change them I got off the bus. And YES I live in a rural area. So like I said, there is a part of me that thinks 'really? Don't be so fucking foul.'

Non-mother and commuter here: I'd rather see a baby's bottom on the bus that know a baby would suffer as a result of not changing the nappy.

*than know

WTF has being Irish got to do with it?

MN can be so histrionic. 2 other adults on an otherwise empty bus. Wet nappy. And that's what some posters are getting in a stink about? Perspective, people! This is a 1 minute, unobtrusive nappy change. This is not the stuff that wars were started for. Some people need to get a grip.

I'm Irish and I have NO idea what it has to do with this either!???

i didnt mean that in a getting at you way, whitewidow, sorry. The question has been asked a few times and no objecters have answered why its wrong. so I wondered if you would.

but in responce to your answer the nappy full of piss surely would not even be viewed by anyone else, so I still not see why it is distastfull and baby piss is obviously not very offensive anyway.

I'm Irish as well, thats why I wanted to know

cause the irish fecking love kiddies dont y'know.

No whitewidow I know you didn't, and no I don't have a problem with your opinion, I apologise it came across that way :( I posted here because I couldn't ask the other passengers and so wondered what other peoples views were
I have never ever thought that my child is more important than anyone else and didn't really know what would be the better option for the other people. (Obviously screaming translates to any language) :(

Jeez calm down it's just a joke around my home town because we're Irish and have a large family.

Eh, I'd find it pretty distasteful if there was a nappy full of baby wee. I do think it's distasteful.

A nappy full of piss is a nappy full of piss whether it is in a bag or on a baby. Why does it suddenly become distasteful when removed and put into a fragranced (!) nappy bag?

If you have ever laid your child on a mat to change them, and watched them start to cry and wince and arch their backs and beg you 'No Mummy please, it hurts', and then had to clean them anyway, or had them refuse to sit down in the bath and then scream with pain when you slosh water over them because it is so sore, then you'd opt for changing and screw anyone who raised so much as an eyebrow hair!

Yep. Been there done that.

Me too poopoo and thats why I get mad with this whole "its disgusting..." thing.

As I said before, its pee and at worst, poo. Not fucking anthrax!

Bogey face

It's a bit different when it's opened up in front of you on the bus. Why don't you realise the people don't want to see or smell the inside of your baby's nappy. There's a time and a place

Exactly bogeyface!, i cannot see a difference.
I cant see why anyone would be offended by a baby having its nappy change

white as a veteran nappy changer of 20 plus years, I can guarantee that the only way you would know I was changing DD was if you were sitting next to me or actively watching me. If you were actively watching then I would say that you see all you deserve to see! But if you are sitting there watching the world go by, seeing to your own kids etc then you wouldnt even know I had done it.