To think that the table in an Indian restaurant is not the place to change your baby's nappy

[CrimsonCodswallop]

So me and my DP were having lunch in an Indian restaurant today when a couple came in with their children. Shortly after sitting down my DP noticed that the mother had just started changing the baby's nappy. Now I will say the restaurant was empty, just us and them, but I feel it wasn't really the place to change a nappy (just three tables away from us) while we were eating, not to mention the fact that the mother couldn't wash her hands or dispose of the presumably wet (there was no smell) nappy.

[singledadinoz]

I used to work as a school caretaker. The HT called me in one morning to spray air freshener in her office, she had been doing an admissions interview for a family with a baby in tow, she popped out to ask the office for some paperwork and came back to find them changing their babies poo filled nappy ON HER DESK!!

It did not smell good.

Restaurant table = not ok.

[KoalaDownUnder]

chopinbabe, if you change a baby in a place where people are eating, you're doing it for YOUR OWN convenience and not the baby's. Spare us the saccharine comments about the comfort of 'little ones'.

Wake up to yourself, for God's sake.

[Mrssomerhalderx]

Ewwwwww
That's unreasonable

[Mrssomerhalderx]

As in its unreasonable to change the nappy at the table!
H&S teams from the local councils would just loooove that

[HappySeaTurtles]

It's still fucking vile, antisocial, inconsiderate and bloody unhygienic where food is being served and people want to eat.

Bit dramatic, but I agree.

What if it's a boy, and he pees? Then what? It'd get everywhere and then there'd just be pure unadulterated chaos.

My husband worked in food, and a hobo took a shit in the bathroom urinals and walked around with it stuck to his shoe. The place got shut down for a day due to health code violations. It's not "just a little poo". Shit carries parasites and diseases.

[tobysmum77]

I agree the desert point is random but some mnetters are very ott about little kids' wee. That's my point

[LittlePeaPod]

Gross! I get very judgey about this... I always think, anyone doing it a lazy, dirty and unhygienic. Other people have to eat off that table regardless of it getting cleaned and clearly the woman didn't wash her hands after. can't help think she probably doesnt wash her hands when she goes to the toilet herself

Gross, dirty and unhygienic!

[WhatsMyAgeAgain]

The baby in OP wasn't changed ON the table, just AT the table. It wasn't a pooey nappy.

Some people need to chill the fuck out.

[LittlePeaPod]

Same difference. Still dirty, lazy and unhygienic. I have a 7 month DD and no way would it even cross my mind to do something do gross.

[KoalaDownUnder]

Obviously a pooey nappy would be worse, due to the stink. That doesn't mean a wee nappy is just dandy.

Nappies are where a baby poos and wees. Poo and wee is for the toilet, not for places where people are eating. (Breastfeeding is totally different, as that is the baby eating.)

What part of this do people not understand? I am genuinely baffled.

[LittlePeaPod]

Can't believe people would actually compare pissing and shitting to eating.

[Nanny0gg]

It's not so long ago that the same expressions of outrage were made when a mum breast fed.

Most people on here (quite rightly) object to the comparison between breastfeeding and going to the toilet.

People need to stop being so damn lazy, get off their bottoms and find somewhere more private (preferably a loo) to change their babies.

[Nanny0gg]

am astonished at how disgusted people are professing themselves to be. Babies need to be comfortable, not balanced on the knee in a small, often dim and often smelly place. A baby's bottom is not offensive and nor is a wet nappy. We need to be more friendly to babies and their carers.

[externalwallinsulation]

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww! I would totally freak out. Not hygienic at all!

Because some people have raised it, even though it's completely different, I should state that I have no problem with breast feeding in public.

[allisgood1]

On the table is disgusting. On the booth next to you is ok presuming your only other options is a really rank bathroom floor

[Selks]

Babies take time to fill a nappy with wee, surely. So why is it not possible to think ahead and change them BEFORE you are sat in the restaurant so that their nappy is likely to last the meal?

[Greyhound]

Disgusting! How rude and thoughtless of them!

[LittlePeaPod]

I had my judgy pants hooked yesterday when a couple at the next table to us cafeteria style place) got out one of those portable potties and preceded to let their DC have a wee in that on the floor. Then disposed of the liner in the cafe bins

Just spotted this! WTF, what's wrong with people?

[LittlePeaPod]

laQueen I couldn't agree more. Dirty, lazy and ignorant!

[ICanSeeTheShardFromHere]

I am the stealth-nappy-change-on-the-fly ninja.

I changed DD's nappy at the table in Pret A Manger once. I kept her in the buggy and no one saw.

Sometimes you just have to do it there and then. But generally I would avoid doing it in restaurants unless there really was no other option.

[thecook]

Good Lord. There are some really disgusting folk out there. How selfish they are. You work hard, go out for a nice meal and then you have to put up with a foul sight like that. Why on earth did they not get up off their backsides and go somewhere more appropriate. Sheer laziness I reckon.

[Catsize]

Curry sauce anyone?

[squoosh]

That's bloody rank, would put me right off my balti.

Don't inflict your baby's pissy nappies on the general populace. Get off your lazy arse and bring the baby to an appropriate nappy changing area.