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?

If there was nowhere else then surely you could sit on the loo seat and change baby on your knee. I wouldnt change my baby somewhere so public.

How on earth do you change a baby on your knee? Do your children actually keep still for nappy changes?!

Yes they do and it's actually easier to do it on your lap because they can't wriggle off.

Lay them across your lap (legs slightly apart) slide a nappy under their bum to act as a rudimentary changing mat before you take the used one off lift their legs and change them.

Once you've done it once you'll only change them on your lap. It's so easy.

I am also amazed that some people are disgusted at the thought of changing a nappy in a toilet, but are quite happy to do so in cafes/on seats and then not wash their hands.

You could always get .

Roffle.

My mum, my mil, my step-mil managed to change all their children without changing mats or changing tables in toilets and without disposable nappies too!

Love the life changer - I'd need a further contraption to keep DS from running off whilst I got it all ready!!!

Jesus Christ. It's lucky that not everybody is as squeamish as people on this thread. God knows where we'd get nurses or doctors or carers or people to maintain the sewage system.

I can understand disgust in an area where food is served. But otherwise a quick glimpse or whiff of poo isn't going to do any poor darling any harm.

And as for people objecting to seeing a babies bum or genitals, they need to stop being so prudish.

You'd have to buy one of those super-large prams just to cart the life changer around with you! It really did make me laugh out loud when she started flipping out all those pockets and pouches. And it has cushions for the dpfb's head! Yikes. It takes going to the park to feed the ducks up to a whole new level of military-style preparedness .

It's lucky that not everybody is as squeamish as people on this thread. God knows where we'd get nurses or doctors

Well I am a doctor and I don't want random glimpses/smells of a child's shitty arse thanks. I get enough of that at work .

I was loading my shopping onto the conveyor belt to pay at Sainsbury's the other week and happened to look down.

And there was a little lad sitting on his potty underneath while his mum finished paying for her shopping. He was clearly being potty trained and got caught short just as his mum loaded the belt.

Luckily, it was just a wee!

Well, obviously, SeaSick ... we need carers, nurses and doctors and sewer workers who are willing to deal with shit, otherwise we'd all be going to hell in a handcart. We also need parents who are willing to deal with it too, otherwise the human race would die out.

That is not really what this thread is about though.

I think when I had small children in nappies I was desensitised and so used to wee, poo and bums. But frankly now my DC are older I just don't want to see it. YANBU

I've changed a nappy in a library before. Didn't even cross my mind that I might be being unreasonable. I've also done it in a playground at the park and in the school playground. Absolutely no-one was harmed during the changing of those nappies.

I wouldn't do it in a café/restaurant/anywhere in close proximity to food.

I wouldn't do it in the middle of the exhibition hall, I'd move to the side.

It would not bother me at all in a park or open space, dog poo there all the time but it would in food areas, I know the op hasn't mentioned a food area but others have admitted this.

Outraged ... why wouldn't you do it in the toilets?

Park is ok. Restaurant or library not. Dentist I would ask receptionist what they prefer. What I hate is people changing baby in living room mine or there's while I am there.

If there were toilets close-by I would, otherwise I'd just find a quiet corner and do it there (unless it was a really messy one!).

What do you mean by "close by" - surely it is reasonable to go slightly out of your way?

Wouldn't you want running water and soap to wash your hands with?

Slightly out of my way, sure, just as going to a quiet corner would be.

I normally manage a nappy with zero hand to poo touching so a good wipe and antibacterial spray are normally sufficient. Are you getting covered in poo when you change nappies?

I normally manage a nappy with zero hand to poo touching

Ha - that's what you think. Your hands will be covered with faecal bacteria unless you're actually wearing gloves for the change.

I don't change nappies any more luckily

No, I wouldn't say I got covered in poo doing them, not usually anyway.

But it just wouldn't have crossed my mind to change either of my children anywhere other than the facilities provided. And if facilities weren't provided I would have taken them somewhere private. But my thread is about a place where there are plenty of loos, and the parent in question was just being thoughtless, entitled and unreasonable.

Fair enough

Don't libraries have toilets where you are?