Soft play shit storm

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Name change for this... just because... but I promise I'm not a poo troll!

So met a friend at soft play for lunch today. Nearing the end of lunch almighty smell of shit. Turn around there is a lady behind us cleaning up her 3 year old nappy full of poo on the floor, a potty there and it's down his legs getting worse.

This is in the middle of the food area. There is a baby change less than 8 metres away.

So I stood up and said to her "do you mind this is disgusting people are eating"

Her reply;

"Don't be so damn judgy you dont know what's going on I didn't know it had poo in it"

(The kid had been waking around with a visibly full nappy for sometime whilst she ignored him)

Me "well it's disgusting there is a baby change here you shouldn't be doing it here"

Her

"Oh I suppose you're so damn perfect are you shaming people"

Me

"Well I wouldn't do this"

I turned around and ignored her at that point.

This is disgusting right or am I in a parallel universe?

I don't really care if I shamed her she should be ashamed. As my friend said if there was an outbreak of food poisoning from the cafe they'd get the blame! There was no reason to do that there. There was no staff around at this point.
No doubt someone will say I should have helped her but I've had two of my own and never had the need to change them in he middle of a cafe!
I think she was possibly the grandma rather than the mum couldn't really tell. I actually feel sick thinking about it still.

Disgusting. I have seen it happen, not sure there was poo involved, but a woman changing her baby's nappy in the food area of the soft play.

Clients made such a fuss to the soft play that they put note on site, on the website and social media telling people it would not be acceptable and to use the toilets!

There's no valid reason whatsoever to change a nappy where people eat. If you have several kids, you take them all to the changing area, the toilet or whatever with you.

@QueefLatifah and you're a ray of sunshine my dear.

Queef We have all had to toilet train, and you don’t do this.

Soft plays are grim.

Bust softplays are stressful places

Hardly! Afghanistan is stressful.

The soft play I go to is lovely, it’s as clean as is possible. And the toilets were fitted by the most expensive company in the area and have porcelanosa tiles 😂.

I don’t recognise these descriptions of filthy soft plays.

You just sound like a bit of a bitch to be fair

wow, I think we found the entitled mother who changes nappy in food areas, cafes or others.

It must be so embarrassing to be like that.

If you have several kids, you take them all to the changing area, the toilet or whatever with you if there is no other adult to stay with the others then I totally agree,

I don't go to soft plays without another adult to watch DS1 (he's 7) if DS2 has a toileting issue because climbing into that to find him whilst trying to keep hold of 3 year old poopybum and dragging both off to the toilets is not something I'm willing to do!

To be honest I rarely go anymore because mine always seem to catch something when they do...

nick no, you don’t let them shit all over themselves in a cafe. But I’d imagine, it was a one off, and an accident. I’d assume (unless I seen her do it more than once) that she probably had other kids She didn’t want to leave etc and just expected a wee. No need to have a go at her she was probably already mortified and it achieves nothing, as she couldn’t go back in time and make the poo vanish or carry him and nappy past everyone without it being more unhygienic.

Christ after reading the other thread about all the nose pick and eaters on here and the lot of you who don’t wash their hands and like to eat scabs.. I’m surprised a bunch of mothers who have seen shit a million times are so bothered

Well you can certainly see the type of people on this thread who think it's cool to change their kids shitty nappies wherever they want.

Queef it doesn’t matter if it was just a wee or a one off, it’s not acceptable.

Everyone else manages it and it’s not that difficult to get your kid to the bathroom and change them there. Let’s not dress it it up as some impossible task.

@FrauHaribo wow that’s a leap. Because I think calling out a stressed out mother in a difficult situation in a busy soft play is being a bitch.. i must have changed my kids on tables 🙄
Bravo

So this is all about a grandma changing a shitty nappy on the floor in a cafe area.

Yes it's sounds rather disgusting, but I'm not quite sure what your reaction due to help the situation. How did it a actually help? Sounds like you just added to her already shitty situation.

She probably knew it was a bad call once she was at the point of no return.

I have an issue with changing in random places eg right by the cafe in the park (toilets 50m away) in the changing room of new look (toilets maybe 30m away) petrol station forecourt, in Pizza Hut (yes the manager came and spoke to them) these are just this week. If it's the middle of nowhere and there's no toilets fine but it's a major city still with public toilets (thanks council!)

Somebody made a complaint about me to cafe staff once because dd’d hair had come loose and i quickly brushed it and tied it back up.

If that is so unhygenic it warrants a complaint then shit all over definitely does!!

Ew. Why on earth would you even want to change your kid in full view of everyone, anyway? I'd have grabbed mine and ran to the baby change toilet, locked the door and then dealt with it privately and cleaned up afterwards.

I genuinely think if I saw that at my local soft play I'd never return. Disgusting.

I've had poonamis. They were all dashed off to appropriate TOILET FACILITIES.

She didn’t want to leave etc and just expected a wee

So what if it's just a wee?

Take the kid out of the food area to deal with it.

It's not difficult, given that 99% of people manage to do it.

Yuck. And everyone saying, Oh, she must have realised she'd made a mistake and OP made it worse, well, frankly, my sympathy is limited. You don't change nappies in the middle of cafes. Not even if they 'only' have wee in them. Not even if you have three other DC to round up and drag to the lavs. Not even if you are feeling shit and headachey and knackered owing to poopants and the other 3 you had to fish out of the ballpit with one hand. It's just not on, and with luck the DM or DGM of poopants knowns that know and won't do it again.

@MouseInATelescope
To be honest I rarely go anymore because mine always seem to catch something when they do..
And now you know why!

Anyone changing a nappy without using provided facilities pisses me off.

My SIL changes on picnic tables instead of using the provided change tables - absolutely no need for it!

(in the voice of Cleveland from Family Guy)

That’s nasty.

I wonder if she throws shit out of her top window from a bucket, medieval style, too.

I'm honestly surprised some people are able to cross the road unaided, given the absolute basics they need explained to them.

You don't remove nappies in food areas, regardless of the contents. Regardless of whether they're even clean and empty!!

You just don't do it, and if you do - expect to be judged harshly.

How disgusting! OP, I’d have said something too.
To PP who suggest it’s ok to whip out a potty from your handbag when potty training children. If that’s how you want to toilet train your child then you don’t take them out to places like soft play, and particularly anywhere where people are eating. It’s beyond vile.
Your desire to potty train in this way doesn’t entitle you to treat the world as your personal toilet.