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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

to think my friend should have changed her childs nappy?

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JaambaJuice · 25/01/2013 22:49

Me and a friend went shopping today and decided to get the bus. Finished shopping and started queuing to get he return bus home, when her DS(2) poos in his nappy just as the bus gets there.

She says he'll be fine and we get on the bus. The journey can take anywhere between 30 - 50 minutes. This one took us around 40ish minutes.

We were only about a 5 minute walk from public toilets and the bus runs every 15 minutes anyway.

It couldn't have been comfortable for her son.

OP posts:

usualsuspect · 26/01/2013 00:11

They are watching me

Londonista · 26/01/2013 00:12

Agent - she sounds like a Judgy Pants to me. A Judgy wudgy fudgy pants (did you see what I did there? Fudgy pants? Oh forget it)

usualsuspect · 26/01/2013 00:14

mum11970 · 26/01/2013 00:16

Get a grip. How many times have people woken up to a baby who has pood in the night and it hasn't woken either of them. Unless you have a child who suffers from nappy rash, it probably wouldn't bother them and just because friend's baby was crying at some point doesn't necessarily mean it was because of the nappy. Get a life and don't judge.

AgentZigzag · 26/01/2013 00:17

They're watching all of us Usual - All. The. Time.

I even felt them watching me when I was having a dump earlier.

Oh...no...that was my paranoia playing me up wasn't it?

Or was it?

Do you think it was?

I'm not paranoid am I?

I think I might be.

I'm not am I?

Greensleeves · 26/01/2013 00:18

Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you

usualsuspect · 26/01/2013 00:19

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

usualsuspect · 26/01/2013 00:19

x post

Greensleeves · 26/01/2013 00:20

ner ner ner ner ner

ProcessYellowC · 26/01/2013 00:21

YABU, it was a different decision than the one you'd have made. So what?
I might have done the same as your friend (not knowing all the facts, like how clean the public toilets were nor how far her house was at the other end)

TheHouseofMirth · 26/01/2013 00:23

At the age of 2 it would have taken me or DH at least 40 mins on average to apprehend DS2 for a nappy change.

AgentZigzag · 26/01/2013 00:25

Fucking hell, that x-post has really fucking freaked me out now!

(unless I invest more in the theory that MN is only a handful of posters and the rest are from MNHQ)

Morloth · 26/01/2013 00:26

Meh, I have made the 'wrong' call sometimes with regards to nappy situations.

Nothing bad happened.

Original poster

JaambaJuice · 26/01/2013 00:28

AgentZigzag
Don't be silly London, OP's not said she's a perfect parent, she's just asking whether what she thought would be what other people thought too.

Getting stuff in perspective is what MNs all about isn't it?

^ Exactly. Thanks for wording it better than I could.

Process She knew how clean and how far the toilets were and her house is probably a 10 minute walk from the bus stop.

Anyway, thanks for comments. Think I've said everything I needed to say - I am definitely not the perfect parent, I just wondered if others would have done the same as my friend. As her son did get upset about as he kept talking about his nappy and was crying etc.
If your child is awake and has a dirty nappy imo you should change it asap. But thats just my opinion

Don't really need to add anything else as the thread seems to have moved on.

As you were ladies

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Greensleeves · 26/01/2013 00:30

But did you say something to your friend at the time? What was her response?

ToysRLuv · 26/01/2013 01:00

I could have done this with DS who has buns of steel and until very recently didn't notice or care if he had pooed or not. Also, he was a nightmare to change, so would wait to get home if it wasn't too far away.

honeytea · 26/01/2013 02:45

Many 2 year olds would happily finger pain the living room walls with their own poo, sitting in poo for a while isn't the end of the world in my opinion.

lollilou · 26/01/2013 06:35

I think it depends on LO .My ds at 2 used to create merry hell when he needed a nappy change. I had to do a full on tussle my knees on his arms and both hands to hold his legs and still he twisted and turned was a nightmare so I probably would have waited. He never complained about a full nappy though.

HappySeven · 26/01/2013 07:15

Do you think you and your friend could have different opinions about the public toilets? I'm always a bit 'phobic' about public toilets no matter how clean they look but know it's my issue.

Molehillmountain · 26/01/2013 12:39

Tbh, I might have left it too. My dc have all had pretty tough skin and never minded being in a dirty nappy. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit it. Some days, I can imagine an extra half an hour's wait for a bus and its knock on effect on my day might be far worse. But if it was very smelly or I knew they'd be sore it would be a different matter.

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