Out with child in a pram and you need the loo...

[Blackbear19]

If your on your own what do you do?
The obvious answer is to use the 'family loo' if there is one but few places seem to have them. Do you?

1. Use a standard cubical in the ladies. Keeping the door open so you can keep an eye on child?

1. Ask a stranger to keep an eye?

1. Leave pram unattended and hope for the best?

1. Use a shewee?

1. Quickly nip into the accessible loo?

List all that apply or you'd consider.

I think I'd ask someone to keep an eye. Generally if I'm in the ladies I'd always offer because it's just the kind thing to do.

Use a standard loo..I used the end toilet and left the door open if they were awake

The ones I use are huge rooms, accessible, but also the only one in the cafe so for use by all. So no guilt at blocking up a disabled loo/feeling like I should be using a different one because this one is the only option.

I have solved this with my second by having a baby who refuses to go in his pram - so always in the sling.

With my first, I took the sling with me even if using the pram and transferred him into it for this sort of thing

I have done the normal ladies cubicle with the door open or the disabled toilet. The disabled toilet is often the baby change so I kill 2 birds with one stone.

Scoot into a disabled/baby change. Failing that use a cubicle in super quick time

TAAT? I don't think you waited long enough.

I don't like days out shopping and any days out we've had at the weekend either DH or another family member has been with me.
The places I used to frequent by myself when ds were little all either had family loos or the baby change was in the accessible loo so I'd have a quick wee after changing ds.

End cubicle, door open. Or disabled loo if also baby change.

Take child out of pram and if small enough put in sling or in arms and do one handed knicker manoeuvres to have a wee in cubicle toilet.

If walking and talking take into cubicle and listen to them monologuing about mummy having a wee in a loud voice so everyone outside can hear, whilst simultaneously trying to stop them opening the cubicle door with one foot so they don't expose you to everyone outside!

Use a disabled or baby change very quickly. When ds was tiny I would stick him in a sling whilst I went if need be.

I use the end cubicle and push the front of the double buggy as close as I can

Accessible loo?

Exactly the same as bananas

Also used a sling

I asked people to watch baby a couple of times. It only takes a minute to pee and the risk of anything untoward happening is pretty low, but I live in a nice town with mostly old ladies in the toilets. Or go to M&S which usually has big disabled toilets for everyone.

Ideally sling, but if necessary park buggy just outside door of end cubicle (positioned so you can see it under the door, if possible) and be quick!

Or ask another woman to keep an eye on the buggy while you nip into the cubicle - I would always say yes to that, I think most women would.

I use the disabled toilet quickly as can’t leave dc with anyone else he would be too distressed

Also in our shop you can’t fit a buggy into the ladies it’s one cubicle and no space to get in and manuovere

Seems about a hundred years ago now, but I used to lift child/children (at one point had two in a buggy) and bring them into the cubicle. Pushchair left outside.

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being old & having had dc - I am the one who offers :) including chaperoning dgirl child into ladies loo for panicking male - so basically op you need a me clone - prams are blinking expensive so might be tempting even if you sit little ones on lap (done that got the t shirt) or sling?

I never thought of using the end cubicle with the prom in front, I used the disabled really quickly or took dc out the pen and did the one handed manoeuvre whilst holding her.

Can not believe people would ask a stranger to watch their baby what the fuck

I ask someone to watch the pram, and take him in the cubicle with me. Sit him on a change mat with a toy when he was little.

I would take the pram Into the loo. Luckily I managed with a stroller which fit into a cubicle and ds wasnt a fussy baby if I gave him something to play with. Failing that I would have used the family loo, and failing that I would have used the disabled loo. Sorry not leaving my child outside for anything. I've never had to do it but that's what I would have done.

Sorry just seen the option to use an accessible. That first.