to use a disabled toilet if I've got the buggy?

[MrsHelsBels74]

Pretty much as the thread title says, if you're out in public & need to loo but can't fit the buggy into a normal cubicle is it acceptable to take the buggy into the disabled toilet? I'd never use a disabled parking space but did this today in desperation. So, is it ok or still a no-no?

Where the disabled toilet is a baby change / disabled loo then yes, I use it. But I have at various points had a. baby on lap (awkward) and b. parked buggy at (end!) cublicle door and kept door open (will point out that this is in otherwise empty loos and only for a very quick pee!)

Some lovely shopping centres have proper family rooms now, complete godsend.

No, I am not Ghostship. You were very rude about a poster who said it hurt to queue. You said how had they got to the toilet if it hurt that much, and then you posted "but the way it was worded just made me think if it hurts that much.."

I wasn't the only person who felt that you were suggesting that we should be staying at home. I think you are being rude and inflammatory for the sake of it!

Oh good Elle you get it too

MsElle - well I will meet your 'no I am not' then, because you're wrong on all accounts. And I'm sorry for asking a question that obviously upsets you so much, I'm sorry for wondering if it hurts to wait for a toilet, how did one get to said toilet.

SirBoob - Thanks for that.

are you still asking??
do you not get it at all?

wonders if certain poster is actually Iain Duncan Smith as is showing same level of awareness of issues

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I use them. The loos in my shopping centre have cubicles with a picture of a pram in them - which are still too small to get a pram in there!

I heard a Dad of a dd aged about 7 anxiously explaining to her that he couldn't come in the ladies with her. I thought to myself he could have used an accessible loo - that was a good enough resin and better than feeling his dd has to use the loos alone

Whoever builds baby changing rooms which don't also have a loo on them is a fool!

GhostShip sorry don't get your post??
makes no sense.
I think you are winding people up by asking a dense question,
your comment makes no sense

wonders if certain poster is actually Iain Duncan Smith as is showing same level of awareness of issues

Don't be dissing Dunc. He's just misunderstood and ever so slightly disconnected from reality. My severely disabled mum had a mare of a time with ATOS. In a complete rage desperation she wrote to him telling him exactly what was going on and what she thought of his policies. A few days later a specialist doctor from the DWP turned up at her door (sent by Dunc) to carry out a proper assessment and all was quickly sorted out, in her favour.

Please don't use the disabled loos if you're not disabled. Lots more people do use them now who shouldn't, more than ever before ime. It does cause problems and inconvenience to people who really do have enough of these in almost every other aspect of their lives. Please don't add to their problems.

Ever so slightly?
chokes with laughter

I choked with laughter when the first thing she said on hearing that it was all finally sorted was 'I'm still not voting for him'. :o

Oh my god. I can't believe the entitlement of some of the mothers on this thread.

I have 12 mo twins but would never dream of using disabled toilets unless they were a shared baby changing facility and I was changing a nappy or two - would never go in there just to have a piss myself. Just park the buggy in the door of a normal toilet - really no one is going to look at you having a piss, no one will care and no one will steal your babies! Or just do your pelvic floor exercises and wait till you get home. Dads just take the buggy in, if they're young enough to be in a buggy they're too young to care if they see a urinal.

Ignoring the fact yet again that in a lot of toilets that isn't possible...

I have never been in any toilet where it's not possible to park a pram in the doorway of a cubicle. You only need 50 cms or so as buggy is Hal inside the cubicle

Hal = half

You need to visit my town then.

Also, like ive already said, some toilets also prevent someone getting in with a pram. With the double door method. One door to enter, then another from an adjacent angle; which doesn't allow enough room for pram. This is in my local asda, tesco, amongst others.

ceeveebee

You must live a sheltered life - I came across a disabled toilet that you couldnt get a wheelchair in!!! Nevermind the cubicled toilets that are designed so rubbishly that you can barely queue without blocking the sinks and opening doors...

No, I don't, I am out most of every day (or was before I went back to work PT) and IME most public toilets in shops, restaurants, service stations, public toilets have a standard size doorway and they are big enough to jam a double buggy in the doorway. Not to get pram inside but big enough to leave buggy there with door open.
But I do have very strong bladder and often am out for 4-5 hours without needing a pee.

DD (almost 3) is still in a pushchair a lot when out because she has ASD. She is terrified of the hand dryer so finds the normal loos frightening because people use them continually. I often use the 'disabled' loo when I need to go and she stays in her pushchair looking panicky if there's a hand
dryer . Is this OK?

I went in to an Indian restaurant recently where the disabled toilet was down a flight of stairs in the basement. Even had the cheek to put the w/Chair symbol on the door.