Would you park in a parent and child space if...

[BabyNameDilemma]

It was after 8:30pm and you were 34 weeks pregnant. Asking for a friend

Yes, perfectly reasonable as baby bump would make it hard to get out of the car in a normal sized space

Personally, no.
8.30 on Friday night I’m sure there’s plenty space in the car park anyway

Yes.

Yes, you are a parent and child.
When Tesco started them about 25 years ago you had to get a card, which they gave to mothers to be too.

Yes this is fine. You have a child with you!!

I did when I had an obvious bump and left my maternity notes on the dashboard!
Never had any problems - had bad sciatica and looked like I needed a queen's lift not a parking space!

Yes

Totally, in fact I did last summer. I started because I parked one day in Sainsbury’s (normal space) and then when I got back with shopping I couldn’t get in car as new person next to me had parked too close. And I couldn’t climb through boot as so pregnant! So yes, do it!

Well, I'd be pretty annoyed if I came in behind you and couldn't get a P&C space (although unlikely as DD would have been in bed 1.5 hours by then) but nowhere near as annoyed as I was at the 3 grown women who did it today at Tesco

Yes. I probably wouldn’t take the last space but definitely if there were a few.
Tbh at that time of night I’d probably park in one without kids or being pregnant

Hell yes. I have two DC, but on the rare occasion I am without them I will still use a P&C space. I am literally carrying my third child, increasingly massive and hobbling with SPD.

Would cheerfully explain this to anyone who challenged me.

I have parked in a P&C space at 38 weeks pregnant as I struggle to get out of the door in normal spaces. As a one-time parent of 3 DC under 5 I wouldn't have begrudged you either.

Yes. And I wouldn’t need an excuse to do it as the supermarket car parks are pretty empty around here at that time of the night anyway. By the way I’d never park in a disabled spot (except at my school during the holidays when the gates are locked and I’m the only one in ) but parent and child places aren’t mandatory anyway.

I also feel the need to state that I would never and have never parked in a disabled space.

Yes. I did at 30something weeks with agonising SPD in a shopping centre where all the regular spaces were miles from the door and too fucking tiny to get my bump out. I have a 1yo and a 4yo and if I saw you I would be sympathetic.

yes. P and C spaces are discretionary and can't be enforced. I have 3 dcs and managed to raise them by parking wherever there was a space. Sometimes i even had to walk across a car park.
I park in P &C spaces when i am with my elderly mother - she can't walk far and not easy to carry so have no qualms about it.

I did when I was pregnant. I was huge and if it was a car park with small spaces but plenty of p&c I would park in them unless I could find an end space.

I remember trying to squeeze into my car with bump and had to press it into the car door I was in agony for the rest of the day. Never again .

Yeeeeah of course!

Why would you need to at 8.30 at night?

Surely the car park isn't going to be jammed?

No I wouldn’t of, if I can walk around a supermarket then an extra few yards in the car park wouldn’t make a difference.

What if you are 'extra wide' without being pregnant - is that ok to use the parent and baby spaces too?

Yes, they are normally empty at that time anyway. Wouldn't think twice tbh.

Yes. In fact, where I live (not UK) the P&C spaces have a stencilled marking of a pram and a stick figure with a bump. I'm probably explaining that badly, but I always believed that women with unwieldy bumps/mobility issues due to pregnancy were entitled to use the P&C spaces.

That's what I was thinking Stone. What about very obese people?

@stoneofdestiny

I suppose it depends. A pregnant woman is generallg only on the larger side for a few weeks / 2 months.

A person with a condition which makes them larger and possibly in need of a walking aid would surely be eligible for a disabled badge.

Someone who has eaten too many cakes and McDonald's could try to do something about it. Also I found that fat can be pressed against a car door... however a pregnant tummy doesn't move and has no flexibility. It also contains another human and not that mornings fry up.