AIBU about changing bags?

[CocacolaMum]

I have now had 4 people ask me which changing bag I will be having. AIBU to think these Yummy Mummy bags which EVERYONE seems to have around here are really a bit twee and not actually necessary or AIBU (and a bit naïve)?

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I have now taken to looking at people blankly and replying that I just intend to buy coats with massive pockets and bypass a bag altogether..

Its not that I am a snob by the way - possibly the opposite. What else will people tell me to buy for the baby which I just wont need?! There just seems to be so much STUFF~!!!

yanbu a small back pack will do. Pockets - possibly doable if breast feeding but I always needed to carry a change of clothes for DD and me for when the inevitable poonami occurred.

I used a big satchel for the first few months, then got a Skip Hop bag when I got annoyed with loosing things in the bottom of the bag and needed more pockets. Really anything with lots of pockets will work.

YANBU.I have never owned one, ever (3 kids) - always used a small back pack. far more pockets, and large enough for change of clothes for toddler and baby!

YANBU, at £79 I think that is ridiculous! My changing bag always seems to be full because I'm rubbish at emptying it but it was £20 from amazon and was a gift I would have been perfectly happy with the free one you get at boots if you join the baby club thing!

I do think I would need one though, my DD always needs a change of clothes for her poison poos, plus I stuff it with toys and an extra blanket

I always kept a change of clothes and a pack of nappies and wipes, a bottles of water. Also couple of spare jars in the back of the car in a bag. In my handbag I just kept two nappies, wipes, milk/food and disposable changing mat.

Never had one and always look baffled when people act like they're a must-have. I had a fold-up changing mat with a couple of nappies and a pack of wipes. Never needed anything else.

I bought a Baby Bjorn backpack change bag on the advice of a friend and it was ridiculously big (although it's plain black and made a good overnight/weekend bag for the baby and is still in use nearly 10 years later as a swimming bag so not a total waste of money )

I replaced it with a nice cheap roomy bag from a normal high street shop. I bf and found I didn't really need lots of pockets. It mainly had a couple of nappies, wipes, a couple of nappy sacks, change of clothes for the baby and the change mat from the free huggies change bag in it. Maybe a sachet of Calpol in the inside pocket and my keys.

Those yummy mummy bags are a bit twee for me.

I agree. I've found a rucksack far more useful - DH wouldn't use a girly one, which would mean decanting everything every time he took her anywhere, a shoulder bag's no good with a sling, it's a nuisance hanging from the pram handle or takes up the whole basket under the pram. I want it all out of my way, and a cheap backpack does the job.

I'm amused that people are interested in what bag you will buy. That wouldn't even cross my mind when talking about babies. A bag is a bag is a bag.

yanbu. I've been told my numerous people that I have to have a changing bag. I hate the bloody things (other than the really expensive ones that don't look like changing bags).

I've bought a skip hop bag, and will use it with my handbag/a rucksack/a normal satchel etc.

I didn't understand the need for a changing bag then I was given a pacapod...I get it now :)

I bought a changing bag from Tesco when I had DS. It cost £12 and was fantastic, everyone commented on how expensive it looked.
No way would I have spent over £20 on a bag to put dirty nappies and mucky baby grows in.

I hated my pacapod. Take the pods out andbeveything inside the main section slips down and you can't get the pods back in!

YANBU You couldn't pay me to carry around something which claimed I was a 'Yummy Mummy'.
Use a rucksack too and it's ideal; especially as we're very active. Can't imagine taking a changing bag up a mountain.

A lot of people buy any old shit after having their first baby.

I remember seeing a 'top and tail' bowl in John Lewis. It was just a plastic bowl that you could get in any 99p shop. But this was in the baby dept selling for seven quid

I liked my changing bag, but spending a small fortune on one is ridiculous. There are lots of cheaper alternatives which are just as good. If you like a decent looking ordinary bag or rucksack, look in TKMaxx, and perhaps add a travel change mat, there are some compact ones that can attach to a pram if you like and pop in a bag if without the pram, useful when travelling.

Oh well I loved my/love my changing bag had fun choosing it, enjoy using it and found it really useful. I didn't get the yummy mummy ones but probably spent just as much. On the other hand I've carried it every day for past 3 years & 2 babies so I've used it more than most of my handbags. I think the changing bag snobbery goes both ways - it's daft to care what someone else chooses but it's also irritating to have all the people who just want to emphasise how they only used a carrier bag or old bag or how much they LOVED the boots changing bag etc. Both attitudes have an edge of superiority to them when forced on others.

I often go out with baby in the sling completely bagless (doable as I'm breast feeding). Do a bit of an inspector gadget routine - toy linked into belt loop, nappy and a few wet wipes in the pouch on sling. Money keys etc shoved in pockets. Use my cost as a changing matt ...

sunny fair point [embarrassed]

Sling wearing requires Inspector Gadget routine :) can't imagine carting bag on shoulder while baby in sling! I remember trying to tuck things in around baby

Oh my god.

I would sooner gouge my own eyes out with a rusty spoon than carry something around proclaiming me to be a "yummy mummy".

Thankfully I have never seen one of these in real life.

Nothing against changing bags btw, although I had a normal rucksack, but utterly loathe the phrase "yummy mummy". Or indeed any grown woman describing herself as a mummy to other adults.

Jeez, that is one vile bag.

I've seen loads of mums with the yummy mummy bag - they seem to be all the rage now. that and the Cath Kidston bags, which cost around the same.

For both my DDs I've got the free Boots one - it does the job and more importantly it's manly enough looking that DH will carry it.

YABU I have one and it's great, fits everything I need for my DD on long days out, as well as all my crap so need for a handbag.