Best place for nappy changing table?

[NicciLovesSundays]

What room do you have your nappy changing table in if you use one? Is it useful or is it something you can easily do without?

I would absolutely not bother. They become a pain once baby can roll. Just a nice spongy wipe clean mat that you can use in any room.

I had a change mat on the floor! I just changed him wherever needed so going to a changing table wasn’t something I would have ever done.

It’s only really essential if you find sitting down on the ground (and getting up again) a struggle, which you may well do in the first few weeks post-birth. I’m probably going to have one upstairs. No need for one downstairs as I have a dining table.

Huge waste of money! DD learned to roll at 3 months and became useless. Get a nice pretty mat - we got one from mamas and papas for about £20, it's lasted 2 years and looks brand new. And use the bed while they're tiny then the floor once they're bigger.

I have one in babies room, and I have a caddy downstairs with it all in and we use the caddy five times as much as I've used his change table.

I got one that attaches to the cotbed. Purely for the height as I had a planned c section.

Use the floor! Honestly!

We used ours for over a year! She wasn't left unaided but didnt try to roll off anyway. We kept ours in the nursery but live in a flat anyway so didnt need to go up and down the stairs. Ours was a chest of drawers with a removable top, which is useful, I wouldn't buy just a changing table

The floor.
Those tables are not the safest of things once they start rolling. Which isn’t very long.

We just used a changing mat on the floor.

What Teddybear said. I had one because it wad given to me, but I wouldn't have bought one.

I had a c section and there was no way I would have managed to get down on the floor and up again while holding a baby. I used the cot top changer upstairs and the dining table downstairs

If you have room for one in your bathroom I think they are ace. If you get one with shelves underneath it will be useful for years.

I wouldn't have wanted to deal with a baby covered in projectile vomit or exploding liqui-poo on my dining table or sofa.

We had a rigid mat on top of the washing machine in the bathroom.

We have two mats, one used on the living room floor and the other we pop on our bed.

Complete opposite to most posters - we have one in the living room and one in her room and wouldn't be without either. She's 13 months and we've had no scary moments. We dry her on the floor after her bath and it's a hundred times harder to keep her still to put her nappy on and dress her there than it is on the table cos she keeps trying to crawl away which she doesn't do on the table.

I just use a changing mat on the floor. I have 2 mats in case I need to swap mid change (due to poo / wee accidents). Far more practical. What would you do if your baby has a poonami all over your nice changing table? And why be tied down at home to changing the baby in the one room the table is in?

We had one in the baby’s room upstairs with our first. I loved it. Took her upstairs for every change, changed her clothes on there, had everything to hand. I just stayed close so rolling wasn’t an issue. We had moved by dd2 and there wasn’t room for one in her bedroom. I used a mat on the floor. It’s personal preference but it’s def not a must and I wouldn’t pay full price for a fancy one as there’s not much you can do with it once you’re done.

We use change mat on the floor/sofa downstairs and a towel on our bed upstairs.

Wouldn't have been without my changing table - was very secure & everything kept to hand - also a back saver xxx

Agree with the majority of PPs - I didn’t buy one and always used a mat on the floor.
Although with two babies only 16 months apart, who never synchronised their nappy filling activities, I spent a lot of time on my knees!

I just used a changing mat on top of a chest of drawers/floor/bed.

Any Change mat on bed/table/sofa/floor, have a basket with all the bits (bags,nappies, cotton wool, wipes,cream etc) both downstairs and upstairs.

I just use my knee

I also meant to say, if you always do the majority of nappy related things in a bathroom, it makes that association much easier when you toilet train.

I'm not sure why adult sht has to be in a bathroom but baby sht can be on a dining table.