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 only used a changing mat. On the table at first then on the sofa

Not quite sure why people say you can’t use them once they roll?

Doesn’t sound like you had a very fidgety baby. Mine would arch her back screaming and fling herself off even if I was holding her. The floor was the only option!

Totally waste of money imo..
all our nursery furniture is Silvercross..ours is a chest of drawers with a nappy changing station on top. Two babies and never used it once!

I agree with everybody that says the floor, the bed, the cot..no parent has the time or energy to go up to the nursery and change a babies nappy on the changing table 10 times a day!
Ours became a shelf basically, for special teddy bears, photo frames and books 😊

I use mine for every nappy change, and always have done.

My dd rolls and trys to fling herself off, i find it easier to pin her down at table height, rather than bent over on the floor

no parent has the time or energy to go up to the nursery and change a babies nappy on the changing table 10 times a day!
Clearly some do! Plus it’s not 10 times a day for long!

Doesn’t sound like you had a very fidgety baby. Mine would arch her back screaming and fling herself off even if I was holding her. The floor was the only option!
Ahh well I’ll give you that! DDs may have tried to roll but rarely that bad!

We had a changing table with drawer & cupboard underneath. Used it for every change until she was out of nappies. I loved it & would do the same again. She never rolled off it, although we never left her alone.
It's still in DD's bedroom & she's at school now 😬 we just use the top bit for toys!

Ours was in DD's bedroom and it was brilliant up to 4 months when she rolled, it really helped my back. However, DD's room is on the ground floor with the majority of the house - there's no way I'd have been going all the way upstairs every time she needed changing.

Once she started rolling the mat went onto the floor!

I’ve got a side sleeper with a shelf thing under it. Change mat and change box (nappies/wipes/flannels/etc in it) live on the shelf. Mat goes over the mattress for changes. I do the occasional change downstairs on the floor using the change bag mat and kit but usually just go upstairs.

@ShallICompareTheeToASummersDay sorry my post made you so angry 😕

Even a baby aged one should have a nappy changed every two hours, so that's over a year of running up and down the stairs every time to change a nappy.

In real life, when my friends come over with their babies not one has ever asked to use my nappy station..they just roll out a mat and change on the sofa or floor in the lounge.
None of them like myself had the time to go upstairs every time to change a nappy. Especially with a toddler as well. I have yet to meet a mum in real life that has used one regularly.

Ikea do one for 25 quid. Found it very useful after c section and hadn't been sure before. Do live in a 1 bed though, so never have to go far - and now recovered, have travel mat to use in living room.

My friend still uses the same one with her 1 year old.

Had one for my first & used it once!
Mat on the floor, bed, sofa, footstool etc etc!!

We've got one of these, and 10 months in I don't think I've changed a nappy anywhere else whilst at home.
www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/childrens-ikea-products/baby/changing-tables-nursing/stuva-changing-table-desk-white-art-20225334/

It was expensive but with loads of space on top, storage underneath and the ability to lower the shelf to make it into a desk, I'm hoping we'll get years of use from it.

It's in the baby's room, along with a cot and comfy chair, so when DS was tiny and still in our room I'd go in there for night feeds & changes so as not to disturb DH.

These days, DS is changed first thing in the morning, last thing at night and before/after each nap, so I'm not making any extra trips upstairs. Everything I need, including clothes etc, is in one place. Works for us and we'll use the same setup for second DC. I think it's also good for a baby to be changed in the same place as much as reasonably possible, so that they know what's coming just like any other part of a routine.

We have one upstairs and downstairs! However, the upstairs one is just a changing mat on a chest of drawers (ikea malm) and the downstairs one is the cheap £25 ikea one. We have an enormous 7.5 month old and have used the changing tables for pretty much every single cha he since the day he was born!

I'm going to go against the flow here - we have a MyBabiie one on wheels that has a baby bath underneath and we love it! Easy to roll into the bathroom for bathtime, fill using showerhead, saves loads of water. It has lots of shelves and compartments too. We started with the cheap-mat-on-the-bed option, cos I was sceptical a proper table was needed. But it was killing our backs in a couple of weeks, and the table is easy to wipe clean, unlike our bed if there were leaks/spray issues...

Never had a problem taking him upstairs to change - a lot of changes are before / after bed or naptimes anyway and surely you have to carry baby to wherever the mat and stash of nappies/wipes etc is anyway?

Admittedly, we only have one child and he's not that mobile yet (nearly six months old), so YMMV!