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'?

I have had to in shopping centre toilets.... I talk to him throughout. Try and get end cubicle and leave open but not always possible. Think chance of being abducted v low as everyone in queue would see it...

yes, I've had the fastest pisses in history with the door half open too

It was me that suggested leaving then just outside the cubicle whilst you have a wee, I have always done this. Or there is the door half open method as others have suggested.

Five children, fourteen years of doing this and no-one has snatched one of them yet.

Obviously its a judgement call but in most places I use toilets its been fine, is supermarkets, stores like m&s and john Lewis etc.

But then I got a store assistant to hold ds3 as a newborn as I had him in a sling but wanted to try a top on. I pulled the curtain too so I could see the assists t holding him and she wass happy to hold him. Still didn't stop another person telling me how irresponsible it was as she could have stolen him... Yes the staff member on duty, with CCTV etc in changing rooms who I could SEE as I was changing could have stolen him...

But then my eight year old uses the mens toilets and plays out in our cul de sac and can go to the local shop two mins away...and he is sleeping in a tent in my sisters back garden (with two older brothers 14 and 11) this week when we visit, so I a, clearly an irresponsible parent...

candycoated my comment was no more patronising than yours really.
Of course I know that a parent could have a disability.
I also know the same might be true of a child.

I'm not using a disabled parking space, driving someone of a space for a significant length of time. I use the public lavatory that is designated for"disabled" and baby change. I hange my baby and use the loo.
And up are suggesting that's abuse of services.
Well it fucking isn't.

hange = change
up = you.

I didn't suggest it was abuse of services! Go on, find where I said it. Oh wait, you can't!

I didn't say that you said it was an abuse.
I said you suggested it.
So, sorry if I misunderstood. I thought you were of the opinion that ppl shouldn't use the accessible loo unless they have a disability. I thought that because after I said I hadn't seen a disabled person waiting for the loo you asked how I would know.

Take baby out of buggy and sit baby on your knee for bouncing fun and coochy coo while you pee, works very well actually, then back in buggy for handwash. simple.

What if it's not a wee!

noblegiraffe

A. Go before leaving home?
B. never go out without a trusted friend?
C. door ajar or loo with facilities.

I choose a.

I'm with the others who say use a disabled loo if you can.

Never ever ever. I'd hold him while I went.

Thank you Shufflehopstep Whilst you are using the disabled loo, my 16 year old has wet herself. She is crying because she is embarrassed and she is in pain because uric acid and ammonia burn her psoriasis patches, but hey, you go ahead, love.

I use the disabled loo. Have gone and asked staff members to open it up before and they have always been obliging.

Don't really see what the issue is with doing it tbh.

I wouldn't leave ds outside - I just don't feel comfortable

Yes, I have done, three wheeler so uou can jam the wheel visably against the door, awkward harness too if anyone was daft enough to 'steel' DD.

Once oast babyhood neither would have been cooperative.

DD1 would simply have wandered off, DD1 escaped all adults not wise to her tricks and DD2 would have screamed.

Don't really see what the issue is with doing it tbh.
Sorry, can you read?

real life for many of us

I'm with MrsDV , I would never use a disabled toilet because it made my life easier.

They are provided to make people with disabilities lives easier.

So bloody well keep out of them unless you are entitled to use them.

mrsdevere it's really not odd at all.

A person (with or without a disability) waiting a few moments to use the lavatory / a child being kidnapped.
Not comparable whatsoever. Why would anyone be interested in whether they were as likely as each other.

Anyway back to this thread: I wouldn't want to leave my small child or baby unattended so would either leave the door open with pram in front of door or I would use the combined accessible / baby change loo when changing my baby.

As I have probably made clear enough here and on the other thread, I'm with MrsDV.