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Need help ASAP please!!! WWYD

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crispysausagerolls · 20/07/2019 11:17

At a wedding in the middle of nowhere and have to entertain fed up 1 year old for several hours - the only thing here is a pool. I’m a huge idiot who forgot swimming nappies, and only bought trunks!!!! What do I do? Normal nappy? No nappy?! Or just not swim which would be sad as DS loves it and no idea how else to fill some time 😫

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user87382294757 · 20/07/2019 12:24

I would go for a walk and then let him have a nap

lolaflores · 20/07/2019 12:24

just have a paddle about at the shallow edge if there is one. Do some splashing, have a little bucket to fill up and pour out, endlessly. or something to float like a little boat. Make one out of paper. use it till it is sodden then make another one.
Loads to do without actually swimming.

SeaToSki · 20/07/2019 12:31

Ask the kitchen if they have cling film and make a liner. Use a pair of your pants next to his skin then wrap cling around and between legs several times, then put swim trunks on top and dont do anything too wild and crazy.

Ask other guests if they have a swim nappy they can lend you.

Risk it if you are very sure he wont poop.

Swim nappies only contain the poop, they let all the wee go straight into the pool.

BenWillbondsPants · 20/07/2019 12:31

If it's a countryside hotel, maybe go for a long walk?

viques · 20/07/2019 12:35

Has the hotel got an inflatable paddling pool you can borrow? OR even a big plastic bowl to fill with water plus a few wooden spoons, plastic mugs, most one year olds would be perfectly happy stripped off and splashing about dunking stuff in water.

Iwrotethissongfor · 20/07/2019 12:37

Sympathise with you having to find entertainment OP but fill up the bath and shove in toys or splash about as others said. Presumably you have some toys and books with you and you said countryside so can go a walk and take bucket and they’ll get up to all sorts of weird things that seem to occupy them: watch birds, run about with sticks, collect pine cones in bucket and sort them endlessly etc.

You can’t swim without a swim nappy. All pools have it as a basic requirement now, and my local one requires both swim nappy and neoprene pants over the top so you have a double layer. It doesn’t really matter what happened before they were invented as a previous poster asked: the fact is they have and now they are both expected and a courtesy.

Oh and OP don’t rely on false poo comfort! my 19 month had just done a poo half an hour before she poo’d all over the carpet (as I let her have nappy free time thinking she won’t do another today)

Rachelover40 · 20/07/2019 12:42

SeaToSki
Ask the kitchen if they have cling film and make a liner. Use a pair of your pants next to his skin then wrap cling around and between legs several times, then put swim trunks on top and dont do anything too wild and crazy.

Ask other guests if they have a swim nappy they can lend you.

Risk it if you are very sure he wont poop.

Swim nappies only contain the poop, they let all the wee go straight into the pool.
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Very sensible advice in this post and I also thought of asking around if anyone has a spare swim nappy they could lend. However I've seen that you say the pool is too cold anyway so I suppose there is no urgency now.

There were no swim nappies when mine was a baby. We used to go on the beach on holiday at that stage so not a problem but remember someone suggesting trainer pants.

SarahSinclair · 20/07/2019 12:43

It’s selfish people like you that get the whole pool closed down as a health hazard when the child poops in the pool!

She hasn’t done anything so she’s not selfish!! Stupid thing to say.

Op, regular nappy would just balloon and possible explode gel type stuff so don’t use those. Stick to sitting by the pool if the waters too cold.

GrimDamnFanjo · 20/07/2019 12:49

2 hour delivery via amazon prime?

CruellaFeinberg · 20/07/2019 12:57

amazon prime is a great idea!

AmIRightOrAMeringue · 20/07/2019 12:59

If hes just done a poo and hes quite regular and you have trunks then I'd just take him

nettie434 · 20/07/2019 13:02

It’s selfish people like you that get the whole pool closed down as a health hazard when the child poops in the pool!

Why put in ‘like you’ when the OP has just asked if it is ok and accepted the advice that it isn’t? Hope you find someone with a spare swim nappy, crispysausagerolls

EleanorReally · 20/07/2019 13:08

there was no such thing as swim nappies when mine were little, we didnt have that problem, and no they didnt poo in the pool!

peridito · 20/07/2019 13:23

blown away by inventiveness of seatoski - cling film ! Genius .

and excellent ideas from viques

you clever lot

user1480880826 · 20/07/2019 13:26

Swim nappies are only for trapping poo. They don’t trap wee. If he’s just done a poo then it should be fine.

DodgeRainClouds · 20/07/2019 13:28

Do not go in with a normal nappy!! They swell and explode!

TanMateix · 20/07/2019 13:39

You are abroad? Where? Here, were swimming nappies are the norm, it is absolutely not on swimming without the nappy. But in other countries they just see this as the natural thing to do. Look around you, what are the other people doing?

MoaningMinniee · 20/07/2019 13:40

Amazon Prime 2 hour delivery is not generally available in remote hotels abroad... Read the OP and the OP's updates people!

StoppinBy · 20/07/2019 13:53

Swim nappies only catch poop so as long as his bathers wont let a poop slip through I would just go with the bathers.

LizzieSiddal · 20/07/2019 14:09

My eldest is 28, there was no such thing as swimming nappies. We went swimming regularly in the local pool, to baby swimming classes. Nobody wore a nappy!

supersop60 · 20/07/2019 14:14

I've read your update. Good decision.
Re wearing ordinary nappies - I was extremely annoyed after a neighbour's child came to play in my DCs paddling pool wearing an ordinary nappy. It swelled up and got really heavy, then started to shred into tiny pieces - ruining everyone's play. I couldn't tip the water onto the garden as normal - I had to put gloves on and scoop out the disgusting shreds first.

HerkyBaby · 20/07/2019 14:37

Get creative with one of those free polythene shower caps - maybe use two or three. Speak to your child and tell them no toilet etc in the water ( worth a try). good luck x

AgentProvocateur · 20/07/2019 14:41

Swim nappies are a relatively new invention. 20 years ago, kids went in in bottoms or nothing. I don’t think I ever saw a poo.

Upanddownandroundagain · 20/07/2019 15:38

Do people really think that swim nappies hold wee? They don’t. If your child is wearing a swim nappy and they wee, the wee goes straight into the pool. They’re there to stop poo. So if you’re confident that they aren’t going to do a poo you’re fine without one.

Alsohuman · 20/07/2019 15:42

People took babies swimming before swim nappies were invented. Just take him in with trunks on.