Nappy changing etiquette

[TheDullWitch]

I hate to say it but I find lots of fellow mums are quite disgusting in how they change nappies in public places will little disregard for how it might make other people gag.
I think No 2s should be attended to well away from other people, not at a restaurant table or by the side of swimming pool! (I know there are not always changing tables - but for goodness sake!)
The other day I was in a playground on a bench by a bin and a mother from some distance, lobbed a nappy into the bin. It wasn't folded into a tight ball but all open and pissy. When I was a nappy-changer, I d have fastened it up and shoved discretely shoved to the bottom of the bin. I went "yuk!" involuntarily as it sailed by my face and she went nuts at me.
I m sorry, your own child's poos and wees are not stomach-churning, but other people's are!

lol at "blood showing" (like "knickers showing")

A woman changed her toddler's nappy in the cafe I was in the other day. There is a really clean changing room and she didn't have any other children with her, she was just chatting to her friend. I found it really unhygienic tbh, I was eating at the next table. And she didn't wash her hands.

I don't normally mind these things, but I thought that was horrible, and wished I had the guts to say something.

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I don';t change pooey nappies in restaurants or put pooey nappies in peoples bins, they go straight outside into wheelie bins. I always wrap them up so they roll in and use the sticky tabs to then fasten the nappy into a rolled ball.

But I have changed my DD's anywhere else I've needed to:

• on a pile of coats on the pavement at the side of a sound system at Notting hill Carnival
• in the boot of my car in car parks
• on the floor between beds whilst trying to purchase a mattress in John Lewis
• on the seat on a areoplane
• park benches

Basically whereever they need doing and the baby changing facilites are either a faff to get to or don't exist.

I respect people eating and wouldn't do it next to them in that instance, but anywhere else, tough, move away if it offends, my baby needs changing and i'm not waiting till I get home.

lol soup dragon.

i think some people think he is about to burst open like in ALIEN lol.

If your child needs changing, and you are sitting in a place where people are eating, just go somewhere else. It is crap and lazy not to.

i agree mostly with jessajam, i think it is bad hygiene to chance in a restaurant etc. and would use toilets if poss as they are cleaned with disinfectant, bodily fluids carry infections and so i would through in a sanitary bin in a toilet but not in a bin in a street etc. i would find it unfair if i had to empty that bin as im not vaccinated against hep B etc. anymore, and bin bags do split on occassion. IKf there isnt a suitable bin nappy goes in nappy sack (or two) and into my changing bag until there is a suitable bin.

i've only changed dd2 in one 'eating place' and that was listed below for the reason below. i didnt fancy laying her in a puddle of wee to change her bum. i did use a changing mat and wiped everything down afterwards.

sorry misdee that wasnt directed at you but in response to OP, those the were exceptional circumstances but many mums do it all the time.

it's actually illegal to dispose of human waste with ordinary "domestic" waste (and I bet that includes public litter bins too). Unfortunately, it's pretty much unenforceable as councils do not provide a "clinical waste" disposal service to households. This is a throwback to when everyone washed their own nappies, so there was no need.

Agree that lobbing nappies whether wet/ dirty into a bin without wrapping them first is just uncouth. Wouldn't change a nappy around people who were eating, and if I had to do it in public, would be as discrete as possible and take my nappy home to throw in my own bin.

(But I used cloth nappies, so always took them home )

i wouldn't do it in a restaurant or lob an unfolded nappy into a bin past someone's face. i think it's a hygiene issue.

he has two tubes coming out of the side of his body, the blood comes from the left ventrical, down to the little 'bladder' type pump, and up the other tube to the aorta. the tubes and pump are visable if his top rides up. the bit which most people see if his top is hiding the pump is the pneumatic lead and power cable that goers to the big air box on wheels.

I only use disposables when out&about so as a clothie I am very mindful that poo should go down the loo ideally, even off a disp if it's solid enough. I would never leave a disposable nappy in a non-nappy bin, like outside in the park, even in a nappy sack - I generally take them home with me.

Re changing in cafes etc I think people with new babies are often just oblivious and forget that it's not the same as breastfeeding in public. I did it once and got told off, it simply hadn't occurred to me that anyone would find my little darling's poo offensive in an eating place! People with older babies should know better (although some of us get out more than others ).