I am travelling by train from Todmorden to Wellingborough changing at Leeds and Derby.
I know this sounds daft, but how do you travel by train with a baby? I will have a baby to carry, a buggy and a small suitcase but can't think how to carry all these!
Also, I expect there aren't changing units on trains and can't imagine changing a nappy in those tiny, unhygienic loos on board. Using a table would be good, but not sure other passengers will agree!
As for breastfeeding, I can probably just do this discreetly with a shawl over me, hopefully the train wont be packed with people and I'm wedged into one of the 2-seaters with a chap next to me...
It's a journey with 2 changes approx 1-2 hours each leg, so feeding and changing are inevtiable, there isn't time to do so at stations where I change trains.
Apparently there's wheelchair spaces to put a buggy in as my buggy does not fold up, but I have no idea where these are on the train as it pulls into the platform, and cant wheel the buggy inside all carriages til I find this space as it probably wont fit down the aisle (it's a big cumbersome landrover 3-wheeler).
Then there's getting on and off the train carrying a baby, a buggy and suitcase, I havent been on a train in years and Im still picturing intercitys with 3 steep steps up to the carriage, not tube-style platform level carriages.
Lastly, if I need to use the loo on board, there's the safety issue with my luggage and buggy and how do I use the loo with a babe in arms?!! There's little room to manoevere in there as it is!
I bet there's a really simple answer to all this!
Help!!