to get a baby on board badge

[ghostspirit]

As above would it BU to get a baby on board badge. sometimes im happy to stand other times could really do with a seat. do people even take notice of them. im not really sure what i think of them.

I have offered my seat to a few ladies with badges recently, so I do think they work. I would not have noticed they were pregnant otherwise.

Not pregnant but spent 4 months on crutches last year after an accident - a month longer than strictly necessary as the tube was still quite difficult and the crutch gave a visible signal that there was a reason for my slowness when I was struggling up/down stairs.

I had the opposite experience to another poster - businessmen were the most likely to offer me a seat, women in their 20's and 50's least likely and would studiously ignore my crutches. I became quite good at faking getting off the tube so I could manoeuvre my way into an about-to-be vacated seat - you have no idea how often I was glared at by people who thought they were going to be able to sit down.

I recently had an incident where I was sitting in the middle of a row of Central line seats and a very frail man with a stick got on. No one got up so I said loudly 'want a seat?' and he said yes but I need to wait til the next station as the train had started to move. In the intervening minute between stations, no one in the six seats closer offered a seat. As I got up at the next station, the woman sitting on the end closest to the man got up and sat down in my newly vacated seat. The cheek!!!

But no, YANBU to get a badge as it means I don't have to calculate "fat or pregnant?" I'll always offer someone pregnant/old/injured a seat, I don't hold truck with 'well they haven't asked so they must want to stand' opinion that prevails.