to think that you should not lie your baby down on her changing mat and change her nappy on the floor in the middle of a crowded exhibition hall?

[Mintyy]

I expect I'll get some yanbus as I've seen people attempting to justify changing nappies in restaurants and libraries before now.

But, it's just really not on, is it?

I don't think it's that hard to change a baby in a toilet though - even if there isn't a changing table there is usually a floor or toilet to use. And then you can actually wash your hands after.

I guess in a situation where there is no toilet and nowhere else to go I would just do it in the pram/pushchair in a corner.

Well as there were no members of the public there to observe I guess it was ok then

ahem I'm afraid I did that at the NEC, though I found an out of the way corner to do it in. :P

Worse is when parents pull out potties in public places though. No, I don't want to see your 2 year old shitting in the middle of a soft play cafe

God yes. Potties should be taken to toilet facilities. If those aren't available, I am ok with them being used in corners of outdoor locations - corner of the car park, edge of the playground. I get that sometimes potty training toddlers can't wait 20 minutes to get home to go. But not in the middle of people.

Any operation involving shit, no matter whose shit it is, should be done away from the public, in a lavatory if possible, but if not, in a private corner away from passers-by. Widdly nappies are not a problem, although I would still prefer they weren't changed on a restaurant table.

Few weeks ago a small boy was on a potty in the middle of a park. Lots of people having lunch and this woman had no sense to go to a corner. The child ran away with poo down his legs , it was revolting.

There was probably a massive queue. When they have a toilet in the changing room people use like a normal lav and you have to queue. If you've already been to the loo yourself and queued for half an hour or more you're not going to want to do it again. Plus it's horrid for the baby to be sat in poop for so long.

Can't see the harm really, if people aren't eating.

Depends. I had to change DS nappy on the floor of Heathrow terminal 5 because we were pressured for time and the queue for the loo and baby change were humungous. But I did it beside the loos in a tucked away corner behind a sign. The next people with a child did the same after me.

I would only do it if there were no other choice.

Meh. I have changed DS on the seat of a train and various other places

I can't get worked up over it.

As long as no one was tripping over the baby I really can't see the problem.

I don't want to see anybody's bare bottom and genitals, poo-ey or clean. I don't care what age they are.

I saw someone trying to get their dd to shit on a travel potty in the middle of Debenhams once. All the family were round congratulating her.

Put me right off going in Debs again

Orange that's disgusting.

Yes it was really....right next to Ted Bakers childrens section

BUT the weird thing was, I was questioning myself as to whether I was right to be disgusted or not. I thought it was just me...

I was on the underground once and a man changed his DC's nappy on the tube seat. Not only did it smell the carriage out but he didn't put a mat down, so the seat could have poo on it for the next commuter to sit down on... Lovely.

Oh no you were right to be disgusted. Hope they were asked to leave at least

I've changed DS's when he was a baby on a coffee shop floor when he had profuse diarrhoea due to his (then undiagnosed) milk allergy. There were no changing facilities. Sorting him out was more important, and the coffee shop was empty.

I couldn't care if someone at the nec changed their babies nappy, although I would have taken mine to an empty corner.

I'm really not sure what the problem is, if there are no facilities then get on with it. Why would you have a problem seeing a baby's genitals? What a weird thing to say.

It's just a baby, you're just changing their nappy.

*Smell the carriage out. Sorry, not the best grammar.

Getting them to use a potty in the middle of the shop is just weird though.

BUT THERE ARE FACILITIES!!!

Ye Gods. But, then, why am I even bothering to engage with someone who would change her babies diarrhoea-filled nappy on a coffee shop floor?

Popples you seriously can't see the problem. You were in a coffee shop ffs!!! Nobody wants the stink of diarrhea in the air when eating. Even if the place was empty the stink lingers! Some people are so inconsiderate.

In a coffee shop?! that's revolting. So very unhygienic.

Princess I can assure you there's far worse things on tube train seats. Vomit. Semen.

I wouldn't bat an eyelid tbh. As long as its done discreetly. I had to change Dd's nappy on a train once, the toilets were out of order, it was a 4 hr journey, I could hardly keep a 4 month old in a shitty nappy for 4 hrs. Never quite get why it's an issue, if there's a designated area to change a nappy then I'll use it. If there isn't then I'll improvise.

For the love of fuck, a runny shitty nappy getting changed in the middle of a coffee shop, in no world is that ok, it is really really not ok to do that.

I have changed an odd nappy in the great outdoors and once in an airport. Not poo ones, and nowhere near others.

Cripes. It is quite possible to change a nappy without getting poo everywhere you know. It's not a particularly big deal. I bet you lot are the typed that believe that when you can smell poo it means the particles are up your nose and will be inhaled into your throat and then be in your mouth and swallowed into your tummy and then be pooed out as double poo!