to create a spin off - do you change dirty nappies in any room other than the bathroom/nursery?

[Jackaroo]

I don't. I owned up to changing wet nappies in the bassinette on a flight, but am constantly dumbfounded by friends/relatives setting up a stall in my living room (or next to them on a seat in a coffee shop) and carry on merrily with pooey nappies, despite my offers of changing tables, wipes, sinks for hands etc etc.

Thsi was touched on briefly in the airline thread, but it really gets to me on a weekly basis, so am just wondering if IABVU, when usually I'm the most slovenly of people.

At home, i tend to put the changing mat on the settee and sit on an office chair and get both kids done at once (have the remains of spd so getting up and down off the floor is painful) or sit on DD1s bed to change and dress them both. Newborn DD2 sometimes gets done on my knee. Out and about i either use public changing mats or use the mat in our changing bag to do them on the loo floor. The only houses they tend to get changed in are their Grandparents, who will do them on the living room floor on my behalf usually.

Really, though, unless you are about to eat your dinner off your floor, what is the big deal? If anything gets spilled, a quick scrub with some carpet cleaner and all is well. I'm sure worse gets trampled in on people's feet anyway.

You take you shoes off in the hall - right, so there will not be much on the carpets. If you don't take your shoes of in the hall - then you may have dog shit and all sorts of gross things on the floor of your house ..

At home we have a changing table in the nursery and a det of changing stuff (inc mat) in the front room. DH Usually changes her in the front room as he is lazy. I usually take her upstairs - especially if we are going to do a bit of massage at the same time.

I wouldn't care if anyone did anything in my house - my friend bought her ds round when potty training and he weed on the floor. Luckily I thought it was funny. She was mortified - but then, on day 2 of potty training, what did she expect?

I change dd anywhere when out - have a fold=up changing mat for this. The other week I had to get her naked in a coffee shop as she was covered in poo - did it in the corner, no one could see and the woman next to me who might have seen had a nb too. Either that or take her, poo-covered, all through the shopping centre to the baby change.

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I have always changed my DCs on the cot top changing table (up until age 2) - mostly cos I have dodgy knees and I find it difficult to kneel on the floor for any length of time (and get back up again). I also find it easier to have all the wipes etc easily to hand in one place.

When I had DS I thought it may be easier to change him downstairs so I could keep an eye on DD, but soon found she was a little bit too interested in helping so it was easier (and cleaner) to use the changing table still!

If I change nappies at other peoples houses I always automatically use the bathroom unless it is suggested that I use another room. I always take a pooey nappy home with me if there is no nappy bin available.

However, as we have no downstairs toilet, DD's potty used to be downstairs in the hall (as she point blank refused to go upstairs when she was first potty training, and it was difficult having a newborn to look after as well). Without fail, she ALWAYS did a poo a few minutes after visitors arrived and I would have to race past the visitors to take it upstairs and hope that it didn't smell to bad - ugh.

(BTW I know someone who changes their DC on the dining table - yuk!)

Would also say that as long as no-one is getting ill or offended, then it doesn't really matter does it

I don't do it at ohter peoples homes (maybe Mums as she changes the boys there also, her bathroom so tiny you can touch the taps whilst using the loo!) but change ds4 wherever he happens to be, maybe its a skilllevel after 4 but its not a massiveproblem, I have wipes, handwash and don'tsmear the contents over the antimacassars.

in someone else's house, pooey nappies should always be changed in another room.

i've had so many friends just get on with it in the room we're all sitting in, and I'm sorry, but the smell of another child's poo makes me gag. I've had to open windows to get rid of the smell that seems to linger for hours. Would YOU just have a dump in the same room in which your friends were drinking tea and having cake? then don't let your children do it!!

Just wet nappies, fine - do it where you like!

I wish my friend would be more like the considerate ones on here and not expect me to be as oblivious to her 2 year old's foul smelling poo as she is.

Maybe none of my friends or family are particularly precious bothered about pooey nappies, but I've never felt the need to slope off to another room to change nappies.

Actually, I have asked if I should go elsewhere, but no-one has ever said yes. Equally, no-one who's needed to change a nappy at my house has ever gone to another room.

But then I've always changed nappies on my lap and I've always taken the dirty nappy home to dispose of in our own bin. (Especially these days when bin collections are fortnightly rather than weekly).

our bedroom (which is also DDs room..atm)

esier to keep the stuff in one place.

I hate it when people assume it's OK to change a pooey nappy just in the middle of my kitchen floor. I'd really rather they didn't do it in the living room if I'm in there, as I object to the smell, but it really pissed me off the other day when I was making lunch for a friend and she changed her ds' pooey nappy in the middle of the kitchen in between the cooker and the sink. So not only was it disgusting and smelly and made me nervous in case she got poo on my kitchen floor, but they were also completely in the way.

I also hate it when people ask if they can put pooey nappies in my kitchen bin. Even if it's bagged you can still smell it, and actually I just object to the idea of a shit sitting in my kitchen anyway.

Shodan, I think if you ask people whether you should go elsewhere they will feel rude saying, 'yes'. It's probably best to ask where they would like you to change the nappy.

Is it ok to put pooey nappies in an outside bin?

DS2 has never been changed anywhere but on my knee. i will go to another room but always change him on my lap i just cannot change him on a floor, changing table etc
don't know why i always did with ds1