Would you leave your baby unattended in their buggy

[noblegiraffe]

...while you use the loo?

On another thread I mentioned not being able to get a buggy into a small cubicle and the suggestion was to leave baby outside.

Would I be overly precious in thinking 'No, I wouldn't do that'?

Yes. And I have left her outside nursery at pick up time to collect Ds.

But I'm not a faffer in the loo. In and out in 30 seconds and I can see wheels or hear baby. Or the old dears clucking at her.

No. I wouldn't leave a baby or small child unattended period. Why would you even take the risk.

Meh, just leave door open. Or they chat to me through door so loud nowadays I know they are there "Mummmeee is that your willy??"

When next one arrives, will leave door open again and wave merrily to passers by!

Thomson and Venables? Jeez. Hysterical much?

I've done it once, in a hospital when a naice woman and her mother asked if I'd like them to keep an eye on him. He was v young. Since then I have worked out where the baby change and toilet facilities are in places I go regularly, used an end cubicle with the door open, had him in a sling and put a disposable mat on the floor for him. Now I would leave the buggy outside and take him in with me if I needed to.

I would and did mine were younger, really who is going to steal a baby in a toilet, mind you im also the bad mum who sent her boy into a mens toilet alone at 6, as he did not want to go into the girs so what do I know .

Not if I can help it. Have felt very uncomfortable when I have had to and left the door slighly ajar. I like places that have a grown up toilet in the nappy changing area (and space for buggy). Unfortunately they only seem to be in large shopping centres (where they also cater for breastfeeding etc). If the baby changing station is in a toilet that is also for disabled use I will use that at the same time

I handed my 19m DS to a woman at the pool the other week, to hold while I went for a wee. He looks like a little cherub and people love giving him a squeeze.

Oh and I do ask other mothers to keep an eye on baby in pram while I take DD1 to the loo, eg, at toddler groups. I guess my assessment of the risk of someone snatching DD2 in that situation is that's its so low as to be negligible.

I would take the baby out of the pram and balance him on my knee while I weed. Not so much because I would think someone would take him mine would have screamed bloody murder if a stranger had touched them, like a proximity alarm but because they'd get bored or frightened.

Once I had more than one I'd leave the walking one with the pram and call through for regular updates/continue the conversation through the door.

It also helps that we've had complicated brakes on our prams, so it would be impossible for them to roll away or be taken away by someone else.

Oh I've just posted on that thread about that.

No, I wouldn't. It worries me that people might read that thread and decide that it's what they should be doing.

Why would it worry you. What is the likelihood that someone is going to steal your baby be either getting the pram out of the toilets, or faffing with the buckles and getting them out of the pram, in the less than a minute it takes you to have a wee? Seriously? Some very odd perceptions of risk about these days. Just leave the door open an inch.

I would never do this. Disabled loo (as that usually doubles as baby change facilities), or "parent and child cubicle" if there was one.
In extremis, the end cubicle with door open would do.

Although its not so much "stranger danger", I'd be more concerned that my DC would manage to unclip the harness or otherwise partially slip out of the harness and hang himself. A relative who works with the police has been called to a couple of such tragedies (young child left to sleep in buggy), so I never let them sleep in a buggy either, unless in my view, it only takes seconds for a strangulation tragedy to happen.

Thompson and Venables are one instance we can name in what, twenty years? That in itself suggests to me it's very rare. Most abducted children are taken by family members.

Would usually use the bigger cubicles if available but probably have left baby in a pram now and then if I felt comfortable. People used to do it all the time, outside shops etc.

Is a child going to hang themselves in the time it takes to get trousers down, have a wee, wipe and get trousers back up? Really?

I've just walked back from the shop through the local nursery grounds (open access to anyone). All the prams were lined up outside against the wall while the littlies had their afternoon naps. Staff were inside having their lunch. But I'm in Sweden where this is normal.

If ds was asleep I'd leave him outside but if he was awake I wouldn't because he might feel worried if he can't see mummy.

I leave ds outside shops/cafes to sleep.

I did it with all three of mine. I would put the buggy so I could see the wheel clearly, and watch if it moves. None of mine would have been got out of the buggy by a stranger without wriggling, even at quite a young age, so I reckoned that the chance of someone taking them out of the buggy without it moving was so low as to be negligable.

No. Therefore all mothers with children should always use disabled toilet meaning it is constantly full.

This is what you are aiming for with your thread about a thread, yes?

Did have a woman undo the clips and let my toddler out of his buggy at a market once though when I was speaking to the stall holder. Was surprised to see him dash past me.

Honestly I would be more concerned that someone would nick my bag or purse from the pushchair, than I would that they would steal my child though he would start screaming POP! POP! as soon as someone went near the buckles anyway

I wouldn't leave them. I use the disabled toilet. Failing that I leave the buggy and sit the baby on my knee.

I think there is a lot of MN hysteria about not 'abusing' disabled facilities which simply does not reflect RL attitudes. Also that life should be as difficult as possible if you have children, so as to prove that the world doesn't revolve around your children.

What was her reason for undoing the straps blingblang?! That's crazy!