to expect not to feed my son in the same room as another mother changes poo

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yesterday i went to a very popular mother and baby shop and was shocked to find that they have combined their nursing room into a an area with diaper bins and changing area, as i was feeding my son another mom was changing her baby as she lifted the bin to deposit the diaper the stench was "believeable"-i went up to the manager and told her the situation was unbearable the old set up was good, and she said we can't do anything and i said hold on i spend a lot of money in ur shop and you even sell our details to other companies you can't do this, a man there maybe the other manager said we do change the bins i said that's not the point its unhygienic sir what i suggest is you go and sit in there and have ur lunch at least he did say maybe we could just have one thing going please lets have ur views we need this changed -its in hammersmith thanks

why can we not defend shops like this? what you just said says you just want this to be a mothercare-bashing thread.
So you would expect the same in Toys r us?

wait till you have a just potty-trained child in need of the toilet and you end up in a 'child and baby shop' like mothercare and they don't actually have a toilet you can use .. not even the staff toilets

that's fun too

I'm afraid to say these are only things that bother you early on in your life as a parent .. the more experienced the less chance there is you'll ever use a 'feeding' room

hey name-do you own a franchise

Shops dont have to provide these facilities, but if they DO, then i would expect them to be adequate and cleaned regularly

Hey marmite-y snackperson - I thought you'd gorn?

no.

I rarely used to go into feeding rooms, what a boring unpleasant place to sit!

Find a bench (if it's warm enough) or a cafe.

All mother and baby rooms are gross in my opinion. With the exception perhaps of my local John Lewis as they actually have a person whose job it is to keep the toilets etc clean.

Ever tried B & Q or Homebase, they have got to be the worst imo.

'llo sixspot .. I'm here, I'm there, i'm everywhere I am the scarlet pimpernelle

indeed you are, you damned elusive pimpernel...

The Oxford M/Care re-jigged the feeding room into one of these combined with a changing and I have often thought them gross due to the stench from the bins. I try to use a changing room with a loo as my sons poo gets flushed, not dumped in a bin

I wouldn't even buy anything in Mothercare.
It's shit.

Feeding/changing rooms are horrible, but what was worse was something I saw at my old Mothercare (in Northampton) where they set up a beautiful "Nursing Mother's Lounge" over the hall from the changing rooms/toilets, which was comfortable and had nursing chairs and was quiet (cause it isn't always easy to feed a nosey 11 month old in public!! ) and then in the changing rooms they had....a hard bench and a bottle warmer. I was feeding ds in the nursing mother's lounge and was chatting away to another mother who was bottlefeeding her dd, and a member of staff came in and tried to throw her out! Absurd!

Don't worry about feeding your ds in a cafe, even if you're not buying anything - most people are fine with it! As long as they're not stupidly busy and you're not taking up a table that could be used for customers! How old is your ds? Have you tried using a sling and feeding him while walking?

This is the Hammersmith mothercare - right?

It is notoriously the worst shop in London, the rudest, laziest staff never anyone on the tills when queues are stretching back a mile, never able to answer anyone's questions? (though a lady there did once fit a buggboard for me, so she is the exception and I love her)

Dreadful shop. Boycott it. Go and buy kids' stuff across the road in tkmaxx or boots instead

I agree it's not on, and agree with Vinegar's post(s!). but tbh I find the idea of a 'feeding room' a bit odd anyway. Changing rooms, ok (though have changed dc on toilet floor easily enough) but a room to sit in while you feed them - how dull. I just bottlefed dd wherever, and bfeed ds wherever - yes, often in the sling walking along pushing pram with other hand

And go and feed your baby in Starbucks next door

Mothercare is atrocious, I went in there when DS1 was a baby and honestly it stunk to high hell.

We don't eat in a toilet so why should our babies?

gross, totally unfair for you and your baby. who the hall wants to sit and feed/ comfort their baby in a bacteria ridden, stenchy room, totally not acceptable.

hmm well, I can't really comment because I change my baby's nappy in the living room, where i fairly often feed him too.

so erm... I dunno.

i usually find a nice cafe so i can have some cake and coffee at the same time tbh!

and i do kind of agree with everyone who has said, if you don't like it then don't use them!
find somewhere else to feed baby.

in our mothercare they have a couple of rocking chairs on display. have seen pepole using those to feed baby in before now

But Mothercare didn't make you feed your baby in a toilet - you decided to take that option. I can't really see what the problem is - I never bf in a 'nursing room', just in cafes, shopping centre benches . . .actually, now I think of it, everywhere, except nursing rooms.

I've never had a problem with Mothercare (apart from the prices!) - the staff are lovely in our neck of the woods.

VinegarTits - what is going on with your keyboard at the moment?

Oh FGS just go and sit on a bloody bench somewhere!