Mum changing shitty nappy in ladies

[ProudAS]

I just went to the loo in a restaurant to find a mum had just changed her DC. The used nappy was on the floor with poo visible. She did get rid of the nappy (in the sanitary bin) but not the smell.

The smell made me retch and feel sick. AIBU to think she should have used the baby changing room next door?

"Put it on show"? Did the mother display it on the wall or something, like modern art, or did she just change the baby quickly and dispose of the nappy? YABVU.

Well it's tough titties really isn't it. My baby needing changing would trump you getting pissy over the fact the toilet smells like poo. It's happened and it's definitely going to happen again at some point, so for the rest of your life I suggest you never go into a public toilet ever again.

Well an adult is unlikely to be sitting in a shitty nappy which actually can burn and give horrendous nappy rash in a short space of time. So not comparable to ladies using the gents. And ya know what if they are desperate and can't hold it then maybe they should use gen gents if they need to. One would hope most people would be understanding and not freak out at the sight of a woman in a men's loo

Perhaps the baby changing room was also the disabled toilet, and she was scared of being judged for using that one.

Get a grip OP.
Seems a bit OTT to be so disgusted by a normal bodily function, being dealt with in the appropriate place...

Best not use public toilets then op, if you are that sensitive. Quite a few of them are the baby changing facilities!

but am very sensitive to certain smells. Stay out of public toilets then . She was in the bloody toilet, ffs. As Jim Royle would say, "you'd have something to say if I shit in the kitchen"...

Maybe someone was in the baby changing room and she didnt want to wait?
Yabvu...what do you think toilets are for?!

OP : perhaps you should invest in some adult nappies for yourself so that you don't have to bear the indignity and smell of other people's poo in a public toilet. There could be a number if reasons why she didn't use the baby changing facilities...it not being clean or not noticing it existed are just a couple of reasons.
How would you cope with changing your own babies nappies (if you ever have babies)?

I have to change ds on the floor because at 7 he is too big for a changing table. I have used baby changing rooms, disabled toilets and single cubicle ladies toilets (when big enough) for this.

The baby change room may not have been in use when you entered and left the ladies, but how can you know that it wasn't in use when the mum got to the toilets with her baby?

It could easily have been in use when she got there and have been vacated by the time you got there, especially if it took her a while to clean up the baby.

Poo smell in a toilet, oh what ever next.

And I don't wait for the baby changing room to become available if there is an alternative because he gets upset very quickly when left in a dirty nappy and I don't want to be kicked in the face when I am changing him.

I have been known to use the gents loos when the ladies are in use.

I have to change ds on the floor because at 7 he is too big for a changing table.

There is an Ongoing campaign to get adult sized changing facilities installed in public places so that disabled people can be changed without being on dirty floors etc.
the lack of disabled changing facilities is a much bigger issue than the OPs imaginary problem.

Thanks for the sympathy MNERS. It may be psychological but I did not choose to feel sick and am feeling it again replying to the thread.

I know people poo in public loos all the time but it does not make me feel sick like this did. I think it's a combination of sight and smell.

FFS I did not choose to feel sick. In an ideal world I wouldn't have been bothered but this ain't an ideal world.

Lagoonablue

I thought that too, so I did a search. OP has been around for ages and has started/been on loads of threads - many of them toilet/D&V/poo related!

Wtf?

If it bothers you that much, OP, stop using public toilets.

People poo in them. It smells. Such is life.

If it's such a psychological problem (and your posting history would suggest you're a tad obsessed with poo/D&V!) see a specialist - you can't expect the world to revolve around you!

So it was the combination the of sight and smell of shit that swung it for you.

You've never taken a big shit and looked in the bowl?

The only way you'd have gotten sympathy op is if the woman in question had smeared the babies arse on you to wipe it

You can't help feeling sick no. But you can help whether or not you think. For five seconds that maybe it smelt bad because the poor baby was poorly. Allergies and in tolerances can cause foul smelling poo too. You can walk out the door to another toilet. Baby can't walk out of a dirty happy or help feeling ill.

If things are so bad for you, I suggest you avoid all public loos in the future. Even in the absence of babies being changed, they are often smelly and poo-stained depending on the behaviour of previous users.

Yes, sliced I hate it when that happens.

As for leaving it on show, presumably it was on the floor for a minute while she dealt with cleaning her baby's bum and making sure he was dry, warm and safe, THEN dealing with the nappy. Yes ideally she should have bagged and taken with but just possible she used up the last bag the previous day or the one she had ripped or something. Also you cant always flush baby poo as it tends to be too soft and not a solid "lump" (sorry). I know you can't help your physical response but there's really nothing wrong on what the mum did. Maybe you should use the disabled ones if your reaction is so extreme that it makes you ill.

In answer to your question about men's loos - if the ladies' is full, by all means use the men's.

We recently stopped at a motorway services in France. The queue for the ladies' was massively long. The queue for the men's was about a third as long. Guess which one DD1 and I chose to use? (Along with loads of other women - the men's queue was at least half women.)