To find the public sniffing of babies' bottoms/nappy changes undignified?

[gail734]

Even though I have one of my own now, I still try to avoid the "lift and sniff" nappy check technique. If I do it, I try to be very subtle about it. It's always made me uncomfortable, don't really know why. Also the public "I don't have to go anywhere to change this really rotten nappy. I'll just do it here while you eat your scone," school of thought. I always go away somewhere, not because my child's nappies are horrid, (they're not, they smell like Angel Delight) but because I think it's more dignified for the baby. Babies deserve some privacy, no? My two SILs do both of these things all the time and I'm silently judgey, but they have six kids between them so maybe IABU?

undignified? to smell your child's nappy? oh please. take a run at it and jump over yourself.

I used to sniff or have a quick peek if circumstances allowed it. God. So we're not allowed to sniff our kids arses now? Take all the fun out of parenting why don't ya?

I think nappy changes should be done as discretely as possible... poo can be smelly and can offend people. I think the most reliable way to check if your baby has done a poo is to sniff, I don't care whether it's a great big obvious sniff or a discrete one!

I lift and sniff, only to detect a poo though not to show off that my dearest has done a fantastic whiffy shit. How else would I know he'd pooed? It's not always obvious.

No changing in public unless no other option though.

My DD - just potty trained - likes to go up to the toilet if we go out for lunch/tea and come down and shout to anyone that'll listen "I'VE DONE A WEE AND A POO ON THE TOILET!!!"

That's always fun.

I lift and sniff... And often regret it
Pooey! No surprised that DD's first sentence was something along the lines of 'yucky...poo poo! Errr yuck!'

I must admit to changing her wherever possible though. Once in her buggy whilst in a queue to get into Wimbledon (I didn't want to lose my place!) but if there is a change room or somewhere private i will always opt for that!!

I do the lift and sniff but try and do it discreetly. I don't mind other people doing it though, I just feel uncomfortable doing it in front of people. I don't know why.

I wouldn't ever just change DD anywhere though.

To be fair, I don't need to do lift and sniff much any more as DD has taken to crouching, grunting and turning red.

Discreet sniff

Change poos away from other people

Change wet nappies on knee, very quickly and discreetly. Use a hand gel after, or wash hands if possible.

I do the sniff test but would take the baby elsewhere to be changed. At stay and play the other day a woman was trying to change her rolling baby in the middle of the carpet where children were playing. A friend said "there's a changing room that has a table with a strap, it might be easier to change him there" but we knew what she was really meaning "we don't want to smell or see your child's shit, change him in the changing room"!

I do sniff, I try to be discreet. I don't know a better way of finding out, apart from the finger test. Yuck.

I always change nappy away from other people. I do get a bit flustered with public nappy changes. Don't need an audience. Have a very wriggly child.

5madthings - the example I'm thinking of wasn't actually in public, just with an audience (me). I was 8 months preg and feeling a bit gruesome. My cousin, who keeps a changing at under the coffee table in the middle of her living room, changed a particularly disgusting nappy at my feet while I sat having a coffee with her. Don't flame me, I know she can do what she likes in her own home, but at that moment I thought, "Right, I will never do that." Mummies think their own child's poo smells like Angel Delight, but it doesn't. This child was teething and his smelled like vom.

kinkyfuckery - I mention the SIL's six kids because I thought, well, maybe I'm being a bit PFB with DD. I only have one so compared to one SIL who has four, I have all the time in the world for social niceties. I went on a caravan holiday with a friend who totally shocked me by repeatedly changing shitty nappies directly on the carpet of the nice, rented caravan! I have changed my own in the boot and the back seat of the car, in emergencies.

As for the sniffing, I think it reminds me of dogs??! I do use the technique, I'm just very surreptitious about it.

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Eww boak at that. I will change a nappy in the living room if its just wet but a pooey nappy in front of guests in the living room, nope!!!

booyhoo - UNDIGNFIED FOR THE CHILD! For heaven's sake, I gave birth nine months ago. I have no personal dignity or inhibitions left! I do not want my DD to meet someone at the age of 16 who says, "Oh yes, I remember you. Your mum used to whip your nappy off in the middle of the prayer circle and treat us all to your diarrhoea."

Discreet sniffing obviously fine. Lady in Nandos who passed her (very cute) newborn around for a couple of other people tol lift n' sniff is not fine! Yes, I know, totally my fault for going to Nandos but their chicken is bloody good!!

I also hate the lift and sniffing display, I found it really disgusting to watch! I just used to put my child on my knee or hover above them, that told me all I needed to know, or take them off and check.

I hate the lift and sniffersa and the people who know full well they have a full and pooey nappy but carry on for at least ten minutes not dealing with it while the stench is filling the room. Get on with it if you notice it!

"I do not want my DD to meet someone at the age of 16 who says, "Oh yes, I remember you. Your mum used to whip your nappy off in the middle of the prayer circle and treat us all to your diarrhoea." "

how many people have you met in your life that have mentioned how your nappy was changed when you were a baby?

catch a grip.

also, my comment was about the sniffing.

Nobody has ever mentioned how my nappy was changed when I was a baby, because it was never changed in front of anybody!

I have two babies, I will not bugger off to the toilet every time one if them gas a bit a of wind and might have pooped. I will give it 2 minutes and then do a good bum sniff to be sure. I'd never leave toilet otherwise.

how did you know Gail? have you actually gone to effort to confirm with your parents?

How on earth would you know?