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Original poster

To let childcare change toddler?

37 replies

rushedround · 19/05/2025 07:09

Rushing around in the morning and smelled a suspicious whiff. Nursery about ten minutes away.

Is it reasonable just to let her be changed there? Or would you have made yourself a bit later and changed her?

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MyOliveHelper · 19/05/2025 08:55

I'd be too ashamed to drop my child off in a shitty nappy. It happened when I've only noticed as we've arrived at the door and I'd stop and use their facilities before handing over my child.

My son's nursery were gossipy, unprofessional but that's how they were. O knew the names of the kids who would regularly turn up in pyjamas, unwashed, with a dirty nappy. They do talk. Just like midwives notice who showers in the ward and who doesnt.

Strawbewwy · 19/05/2025 08:58

HotHoney · 19/05/2025 08:53

What? You’d leave them with a shitty arse just in case they did it again? That’s incredibly lazy parenting.

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No it was a joke. A play on words of "change the toddler" i.e. swap one child for a different one. Hence the "you may well find the new one" (new toddler)

I was just being silly.

To answer the OP properly, yes of course you change a poopy nappy ASAP.

user2848502016 · 19/05/2025 09:01

Sorry but change her before you leave. Only acceptable situation to hand them over with a dirty nappy is if they go on the journey there!

ERthree · 19/05/2025 09:07

I would say you need to get off mumsnet and parent your child.

Oioisavaloy27 · 19/05/2025 09:10

You have time to post on here to ask people but not time to change her nappy? Get your priorities right and get her nappy changed before you take her

MidnightPatrol · 19/05/2025 09:11

I wouldn’t knowingly leave a child in a dirty nappy for ten minutes.

PansyPottering · 19/05/2025 09:14

It’s so unreasonable that I can’t believe anyone would even think it. I’m imagining that this is something that a father with a Very Important Job Unlike The Rest Of You did. Changing your child’s nappy when necessary is a pretty basic parental job.

mynameiscalypso · 19/05/2025 09:15

I still remember when DS did a poo in the buggy on the way up nursery and how horrified I was to turn up there with him like that (there wasn’t anywhere on the way to pop in and change him). I think I offered to come in and change him myself!

TwoFeralKids · 19/05/2025 09:15

Change her obviously.

EndlessTreadmill · 19/05/2025 09:52

Of course you change her.
And if my child had done this on the way to nursery, I would have changed her MYSELF even when I got there.

Imisscoffee2021 · 19/05/2025 09:53

100% change

DamnitCarol · 19/05/2025 09:54

Change before you go, always.

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