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is this the wrong thing to do????

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kayleigh81 · 29/08/2006 08:45

We had a day out at alton towers on monday and my 4 month old ds needed his nappy changing, the baby changing room which was next to where we were was scruffy so i sat on the grass with my ds on my knee and changed his nappy. A woman came over to me and pointed out that the changing rooms were next to where we were and that i shouldnt be changing my baby in view of everyone. I said to her that i wasnt changing my baby in the baby room as it was very dirty and she turned round and said that i should find a clean changing room and not change the nappy where everyone can see
i wasnt prepared to leave my baby with a dirty nappy while i searched the park for a clean changing room

Surely there are other mums who have done this or was i in the wrong?

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Tinker · 29/08/2006 13:22

Would have doen the same. Weirdo Alton Towers woman.

Angeliz · 29/08/2006 13:23

I often change my babies in their pram where we are as alot of the baby changing places make me cringe when i see the smears and muck!
What a miserable old bint! Dear me i can't quite beleive someone would object to a baby being changed.

There's nowt as queer as folk.

(Do hope you told her to bog off!)

Angeliz · 29/08/2006 13:25

BTW, i don't mean i change them in the street or restaraunt or anywhere!

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mawbroon · 29/08/2006 14:04

I would have done it too rather than use a minging changing room. Maybe she was worried about naked bits and paedophiles? (OTT I know, but some people do have the strangest ideas)

I am able to sit ds on my knee and breastfeed him and change his nappy at the same time. Imagine what she might have had to say to me

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kayleigh81 · 29/08/2006 14:45

mawbroon, you would have been in for it
I've been reading the responses and it sounds like nearly everyones had to do this at some point, just being quite a new mum wasnt sure if this was classed as normal.
She obviously had nothing better to do with herself than have a go at me

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Iklboo · 29/08/2006 14:51

I'd have clonked her round the head with the nappy sack on the way to the bin.
She's (a) - a batty old cow and (b) too nosey for her own frickin' good.
"You should find a clean changing room" - er, where exactly? If one is minging, chances are they all will be.

On the plus side - complain to Alton Towers that the changing facilities were filthy and you were forced to change DS al fresco and got verbally abused by a nut bag

rustybear · 29/08/2006 15:37

I remember flying to France when DS was 18 mo. He suddenly started squirting yellow poo everywhere about five minutes before we were due to board - I scooped him up & dashed for the nearest loo - no changing table so I put his mat on the floor & started changing him - cleaning lady comes over - "you're not supposed to do that here - the baby room is over the other side of departures"
I asked her if she wanted to clean up the trail of poo that would follow me if I took him anywhere else - she just went on bleating "you're not meant to do that" until I'd finished.

Astrophe · 29/08/2006 15:44

crikey, some people must have v boring lives. i have dome the same 100 times. dd (2 years) weed in the bushes in far corner of playground the other day as yoilets were too far for her to hold on...was that ok d'you reckon?

mummyhill · 29/08/2006 15:57

I change my DS nappy as and when needed. Alfresco if facilities are non-existant/minging or in use. She would of liked me even less as I use terries (it can take a little longer to change him sometimes as he unfolds it as quick as I fold it IYSWIM) and would of told her to go and get a life.

fullmoonfiend · 29/08/2006 16:08

I often did alfresco changing - for all the reasons listed above, but also, somtimes, I wanted to get a bit of fresh air on ds's bits!

It's very hard now, there are so few public loos full stop, let alone one you'd be happy to change a nappy in.
Now my kids are older, I still sometimes have problems finding them somewhere to go to the loo.
At our local 'big' park and gardens, the loos are a good 5 minutes walk from the play area, which can be a five-minute walk too far for young bladders (even my 6 year old has had accidents ..) Many parents let them just pee behind a hedge, and I have done too on ocassion, but I'm not very happy about it, but a half-hour walk home with wet pants and trousers for my son is not a pleasant propspect. What do others do?

sleepfinder · 29/08/2006 16:14

I think the woman was extremely rude to try and tell you what you should and should not be doing. If she didn't want to see the nappy being changed, she needn't have looked...

Quadrophenia · 29/08/2006 16:17

I used to breastfeed and change nappy at the same time too, I also let my little boys wee behind bushes if they are desperate, there are so many more inmportant things to be offended by, if someone takes offence then it really is tough shit.

expatinscotland · 29/08/2006 16:18

I'd have told her to piss off and mind her own business.

Twiglett · 29/08/2006 16:21

what a loon

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Journey2 · 29/08/2006 16:39

Having lived in Asia for a couple of years, changing nappies in the outdoors became normal!
Until ours started using the potty (last week!!) I still wld change him in public areas.. well if there was a decent chaging room around yes I would use it, but if not, then I had no problem changing him anywhere!
In my opinion, the woman was rude.. it takes seconds to change a nappy, it wasn't like you had a big sign saying come watch a nappy change was it or if you were doing it in a restaurant with people eating.

kellyvice · 29/08/2006 20:59

Why cant people just mind their own business Id have reacted quite violently Im afraid

PeppaPigsMum · 30/08/2006 00:20

thank you southeastastra .

hope you've been reassured by everyone's responses kayleigh81 - 100% on your side...

nappyaddict · 30/08/2006 01:15

what about if you were at a park. there would be no changing facilities and you'd have to change the baby there and then! if my baby has only done a wee i have no qualms (sp?) about changing him anywhere really except a restaurant but most have changing facilities. i must admit if i am at home and we have visitors and he needs changing i do take him out of the room because i know some of my friends find it sickening - but they are 18 and haven't ever had to deal with it before. then again if we have been out at the park they've had to deal with it and that's that!

fussymummy · 30/08/2006 02:01

Sounds like she'd been sucking lemons before she spoke to you !!!!!!!

I've changed my kids outside loads of times.

Wouldn't do it in front of people who were eating, i do think of others.

When i had my first child over 8 years ago, i was breast feeding him in a restaurant, and the waitress told me that i couldn't do it at the table, but that i'd have to go into the toilets to feed him.

I asked her if she'd like to eat her dinner while sitting in the dirty smelly toilets, and she said no, but thats different.

I asked how it was different and she said other people don't want to watch a baby being fed.

I told her they didn't have to look (i was being so discreet even my partner, who was sat opposite couldn't see anything)!!!!

I didn't move, but sat and let him finish his feed, whilst i was being glared at!!!

Pixiefish · 30/08/2006 07:47

For Goodness Sake- what is the matter with people- he is 4 months old. The woman was well out of order. I have changed my dd in all sorts of places including on the corner of a fairly quiet street when i couldn't find a loo and she had a dirty nappy. Sat on a little grey type thing and changed her quickly and quietly.

The only worry I'd have about changing her in a public place like the zoo now is unsavoury people who are attracted to those type of places- but I'm sure that's me being over cautious

kittywits · 30/08/2006 07:56

I very rarely change my babies in changing rooms. For one there are rarely any around and secondly they stink and they are dirty.
Stupid women, I'd have told her to get a life.

fatfox · 30/08/2006 08:08

Kayleigh - I'm totally with you on this one. I've changed my kiddies in also sorts of places (in parks, on car seats, on benches, in car boots etc) and they often have to wee behind trees etc when we're out walking (so have I for that matter).
I'd have been very tempted to throw the pooey nappy at the miserable old fecker

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