To use the disabled loo when I'm with my son?

[RestingBitch]

My sons 9 months and obviously still in his pushchair. The majority of the time it's just me and him when I go into town/visit places. When I need the loo I get an attack of conscious, I normally use the disabled loo so I can bring him in with me.
Can't use a regular loo as I can't get him in the cubicle in his chair. Don't want to take him out of his pushchair and plonk him on the floor as the floors are manky and he will eat whatever is on the floor. He'll also probably try and crawl under the gap and interrupt someone else. Don't really like the idea of leaving him in his pushchair whilst I nip in the cubicle, so providing there isn't someone waiting for the disabled loos, AIBU to use them? I'm usually in and out and so far I've never encountered anyone waiting for one, or the impatient rattle of the door. If I am being unreasonable, short of pissing myself what's the options?

Not a troll, and don't work for any newspapers :).

Piglet
Threads are regularly deleted becuase "mumsnet is here to make parents lives easier and this thread isnt" yadda yadda
Yet the same posters patiently "educate" on thread after thread and are told the threads must stand despite them causing distress
And generally having a higher than average number of goady twat posters

Raised 3 children never had a reason to use toilets provided for disabled people. Not once.
However hard being a parent is, however tricky some situations can be, it is nothing like having a disability, and however much you might want to dress it up, your justifications for using facilities you have no right to use, are just excuses for being selfish

Sirzy, if you read the actual post you will see I'm not comparing a nice to have with essentials for people with disabilities. It's the attitude toward people misusing I'm comparing and how hypocritical particular posters are.

To compare at all is wrong though. The two are in no way comparable. The fact you can't see that is worrying!

It's the attitude toward people misusing I'm comparing and how hypocritical particular posters are.

Explain why it is hypocritical then.

I do this with mine all the time.

piglet I did in my original post.

I'll take people judging me as selfish if it means not leaving my dc unattended or wetting myself.

It's as simple as that for me really, I use them when I judge that it's essential and I've exhausted all other options and I try my best to minimise the impact of my actions on anyone else. I'm quite comfortable with that.

"the disabled" come second to meeeeeee.

Yeah, pretty much sums things up.

Blazingpups
So i should just come up to you and tell you my medical history

So if toilets for disabled didn't exist (and certainly when my oldest was little they were much rarer) what would you do? Leave your child on their own? Wet yourself?

No, you'd find a different solution. Which is what you should do now, and what lots of parents already do.

dawnonagain let me give you an example - was in the park and couldn't get the pram into the toilets so had to leave DS in the entrance whilst I very quickly went to the loo. If the accessible toilet was open we would have gone in there. What I ended up having to do was totally unsafe. I've spence bought a radar key to make sure we are safe for next time. I know you'll be against this.

Clearly there's a issue around accessibility for parents with prams and also suitable changing facilities. This leads us to have to use the accessible toilets at times. I guess what confuses matters is when baby change is put with the accessible toilet.

"the disabled" come second to meeeeeee.
Yeah, pretty much sums things up.
That sums it up perfectly

People's attitudes towards the misuse are different because the two things are not comparable.

I've spence bought a radar key to make sure we are safe for next time
My god

So new you have basically just shown it is possible but you still insist on using the disabled toilet anyway! Nice

They are called accessible toilets now not disabled ones so if you need to access them because you can't fit your buggy in a normal toilet cubicle then you use them.

I'd no more leave my child outside a toilet cubicle than I would a bag full of £50 notes.

Accessible is about making sure it is accessible to those with disabilities which make it impossible to use the "normal" toilets.

It doesn't mean it's open to any tom dick or Harry who decides they need it!

I'm speechless.

kali where did I say that!?

pierari the is no other solution, otherwise I wouldn't use them at all.

mychilddoesntlookdisabled
No wonder i hate leaving the house

If anyone else came along needing to use them with or without a visible disability I would wait for them to go first, t
How would you know unless a person told you they were disabled?

Do I need to get my child some sort of identifying badge do that people know they are disabled?

kali I can't judge who is or isn't disabled which is why I said if anyone else came along with or without a visible disability I would wait for them to go first.

I didn't say if anyone came along that looked disabled or who I thought might be disabled I would let them go first.

And if your in the toilet how do you know your not stopping someone going in who actually needs it? Are you going to stop mid wee to let someone in? Are you heck!

But don't worry let people piss themselves it's fine