To think pregnant ladies should be able to use parent and child spaces?

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As I get bigger and bigger everyday, I am finding it harder to get out of normal parking spaces without knocking the door and potentially scratching someone's car.

So, would you be miffed if you saw a pregnant lady (with no outside the womb children) using a parent and child space ?

(I understand you could park somewhere where a space is free next to you, but you don't know if someone is going to park there while you're gone...)

You say yourself that you have problems getting out of the car and moving around because of your big belly. Why does it matter if it's a baby or fat growing there?

Exactly. No different.

And re making the world go round... HAHAHA thanks for the laugh OP.

Being pregnant is not the same as having to get a car seat out of the back seat, and carry it from the back of the car park, with a wild toddler.
I know the spaces are contravertial on here anyway, but I don't feel they compare personally.

There shouldn’t be P&C spaces...have a selection of wider spaces for everyone to use.

My DM isn’t entitled to a blue badge but needs to open her door as wide as possible to get out with back and knee problems. But (despite bringing new life into the world TWICE), she can’t use them without some entitled prick having a go

The people who say they should be renamed accessible spaces and situated away from the store have it right. Then anyone with an accessibility need could use them for the bigger space, but cheeky fuckers with older children wouldn't be as tempted to park their overpriced oversized 4x4s in them purely because they deserve the most convenient parking place... There could be more accessible spaces in the less "prime" parts of the car park.

I was enormously pregnant with dc2 and got back to my car with dc1 in the buggy to find cars parked fairly close on the both sides and I literally couldn’t get in the car.
The car next to me wasn’t unreasonably close but I was driving a big Volvo and the bays were quite narrow. I managed to get dc into the back but I couldn’t get into either front door or climb through from the back.
I had to stop a passing woman, explain and ask her to reverse my car out for me!! Fairly mortifying but she was very nice about it.

Nothing to do with obesity or GD - some people carry all up front, others hide it better. I was front and neat with my first, kept trying to turn sideways to get through gaps and making situation worse (Was head down throughout). 2nd is oblique/breech and I'm definitely wider/shallower than last time.

To be less than tactful, flab can squish, bump doesn't.

Also not all car parks have a "far away always more space" part - our local Aldi's is generally full at peak times, as are the town car parks - the back is where the vans and mega pick ups park making your carefully chosen space more likely to be impossible on your return...

If I have my 3yo with me I try to use P+C spaces, the less time arguing about holding hands around cars the better!

I think it's fine if they're heavily pregnant or are having trouble with hips / walking (with one pregnancy I literally couldn't walk more than a few minutes at a time, the pain was unbearable). The whole point of these spaces is that it makes it easier to get car seats / kids in and out, and prevents other cars being scratched when you have to open doors really wide. It would also help heavily pregnant people get out more easily, and prevent other cars being scratched. Both are pretty similar situations and parent related so I don't see it as an issue.

I don't see being obese as the same. If it's à long term issue and it warrants it then try and get a blue badge. Being heavily pregnant lasts only a few weeks

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Are you sure she can’t get one? Is it chronic? I would get back to her GP and insist. I got one for dad and mum, chronic bronchitis/altzimers.

Can I just ask a question. A few people have said anyone can but I heard you can get a fine if using them without a child?

I wouldnt mind seeing a pregnant lady using them, Someone on another forum wanted pregnant ladies to be able to use disabled spaces!

I certainly wouldn't say anything if I seen a pregnant woman parked in a parent and child space. You are entitled to park there.

I was actually idly musing about this today as I’m pregnant and despite parking with a space next to me someone parked extremely close to me and I couldn’t get my belly in the car!
I have a 4 and 3 year old already so it doesn’t really matter to me as I can use p&c spaces, although I don’t tend to bother as they don’t really need the extra space. I might start using them again when I get bigger though!

Ah you're one of those. Op being pregnant doesn't make you incredibly special. You chose it and most people really don't care.

Oh and I’m slim but tend to have big, all in front, very solid bumps!

apriljune unfortunately she didn’t qualify last year but she has a gp appointment next week so I’ll get her to mention it.
Thank you
She has good and bad days but generally, stuff like getting in and out of the car is difficult...made much harde with a narrow space!

Okay guys don't take me too seriously when I say 'pregnant ladies make the world go round'
But I just mean that heavily pregnant women are only heavily pregnant for a couple months, so surely a bit of leeway is understandable? I mean are we really going to give a hard time to a woman who is clearly struggling to just get about. Other people with chronic pains/disabilities have the ability to park in disabled spaces, but pregnant women are just expected to carry on as normal until the baby falls out?

Explain then - why would you need the extra room if your kids aren't even getting out of the car?!

And yes I agree @randomsabreuse my bump is rock hard 24/7 and I can't just squish it to get through tight spaces - and nor should I try if it's avoidable

And, yet they do 'suddenly care' if you scratch their car because you don't physically fit?! OP - I'm with you, 100%

@Neverender because because heavily pregnant means normal manoeuvres such as standing up becomes a difficult task... so trying to slide out of a car when you can't open the door more than 30cm wide is not going to happen unfortunately

Other people with chronic pains/disabilities have the ability to park in disabled spaces
Oh dear, OP have you any idea what actually qualifies you and the hoops you have to jump through for a blue badge? I have chronic pain and don't qualify for one (and rightly so) but my need for accessible parking is far greater now than it ever was when I was pregnant and subsequently shopping with a toddler and baby in tow.

AFAIK, p&c spaces are just a courtesy on the part of supermarkets, not something with any legal status?

Find a dictionary and look up 'literally'
1 in a literal manner or sense; exactly.

2 informal used for emphasis while not being literally true.

I wonder if the lexicographer who had to add the second definition laughed or cried?

yes use them i wouoldnt as i dont have children but theyre not legally enfroceable loads of people park in ours vans men and women on their own i think tesco dont even bother do9ing anything

I am 8 months pregnant with bad bad SPD and my back is also fucked. Therefore I use them at the moment as I can’t park far away as can barely walk and also struggle getting in/out of car so need the extra space. Wobetide anyone who challenges me on that one face to face!

itwasalladream it wouldnt be enforcwable in a private car park and even if they did take it further id like to see them take a pregnant woman to court