Where is good to feed and change babies in central London?

[wobbegong]

I'm starting to go out and about with my two month old baby, and am always on the lookout for good places to feed and change babies in Central London. I'm sick of walking into cafe after cafe to be told that they have no babychanging facilities. Yesterday I found myself crouching on the floor of a ladies toilet changing a squally baby, and then walking for 10 mins to find somewhere I could sit and feed her in relative comfort.

There's an interesting thread here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/49/478091?ts=1203597417459&msgid=9734940, - anyone interested in contributing?

Congratulations on venturing into central London with your baby, you're braver than me.

On Monday someone at Jolly Babies reported that John Lewis on Oxford Street was good.

Camden Town Hall near Kings Cross station has baby changing in the ground floor toilets - I think on both sides - the Argyle St side nearest KX station also has a public library, but I don't think that in the daytime you'd have a problem getting into the toilets to change the baby.

I recommend national museums and galleries - they all have great facilities - including eg feeding room at the Natural History Museum! John Lewis on Oxford Street is a great hub - there are changing and feeding facilities on the 3rd and 5th Floors (5th Floor, by The Place to Eat is best - comfy chairs, bottle-warmer, water cooler for mummy and a mother and child toilet!) Also Marks and Sparks often have changing facilities - Marble Arch branch does. I am gradually building up a good map of these places but in an emergency I head for a disabled toiled, put the buggy in reclining position, put a fold up changing mat in it and change pipsqueek in there.
NB, for later, if you buy lunch in John Lewis they give you free baby food!

Hi Wobbegong, hope that you and your dd are well. I like John Lewis best for feeding and changing. However, Selfridges have a baby feeding area with extremely comfortable rocking chairs ; there are feeding/changing rooms in House of Frasers and Harrods also (although the ones in Harrods are difficult to find - near toys somewhere, but not sure I could find my way back to them and I once worked there!) Was in the M&S near Oxford Circus (Pantheon branch?) on Friday and there is a brand new baby change room on the first floor which is very nice - think there are some in the basement too. Down Kings Road way Daisy and Tom's is good, but there is a Peter Jones there too so I am sure they would have one also.
Agree with shouldbedoingthewashingup on the museums, was in the British Museum last Monday and the baby change room I used was lovely - with 2 changing areas and a chair where you could feed.
I haven't found anything in the Goodge/Warren Street area, have fed in cafe (Coffee Republic is nice and quiet) and then popped into UCH to use baby change on the ground floor there.
I have heard the facilities at St Pancras station are very nice but I would guess you need to pay, as you do with toilets on stations!
Hope that this helps.

There's a free baby changing room at ground floor level at Kings Cross station, when we were there waiting for a train on Saturday morning there were quite a lot of people with babies needing to use it, as well as a queue for the accessible toilet which is free - the other toilets there are of course really inaccessible as they're down so many stairs. If you need to use the facilities yourself with a buggy you might have to queue twice which seems a bit of a pain. It's outside the front of the station on Euston Road.