Amazing baby changing station!

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I blame pinterest! I was browsing for ideas of how we could decorate the nursery and this popped up. Is there anything similar in the Uk? I have checked Google with no avail. It's the pottery barn Madison changing station.

Off to think of ways I can hack IKEA units..

I'm going to a table second time around. I'm keeping it downstairs though. Upstairs I'll just use mat on the floor or bed. The one you've pinned is gorgeous op.

I always use a changing unit side on. I'm not kneeling on the floor, that's hideously uncomfortable! And if there's an unfortunate poo incident I'd much rather it didn't go on me It's on top of the chest of drawers so it's not extra furniture.

I prefer to change DS side on the way the mat is positioned on that.
We have a changing table and I've used it every day since he was born, he was 2 last month and I still use it now. I much prefer it to changing him on the floor or the bed.

If you love it OP, hack away!

goneto me, three times. With stitches. Was fine.

I've always done nappy changing side on, I didn't realise that was unusual?

I also went for the changing mat on floor approach. But you could easily put the changing mat on a bed / table / chest of drawers you already owned if you didn't want to do it on the floor.

I wouldn't Mrs. No little ridge around the top to stop things falling off.

Bizarre, hands.

Hi sorry not read full thread and may my be much help

My friend made one of these herself it wasn't actually a changing station it was bedroom furniture and she changed it to this for when she had her baby and when baby was out of nappies ect she turned it back to furniture for the wee ones room

I would get a picture for you but don't actually speak to her anymore since she's moved abroad now.

Could you maybe do it yourself if you had the time and energy of course.

It is lovely.

I've never tried front on changing. We've got a mat in our bedroom on our chest of drawers and another on a kind of console table downstairs. Definitely couldn't be doing with a mat on the floor. That unit could be used for so many thing once the baby doesn't need nappies so do similar if you love it, would use it after the nappy stage and can afford it!

Okay so basically I would recommend getting a changing table. I had one downstairs, kept nappies and spare clothes on the shelf and it was a god send. Doing it on the floor is a killer. Save your back! You'll use a changing mat on it anyway, so if you're desperate to do he change in a different room you can anyway. Then upstairs had one of those ones which goes over the cot. Sorted

I had a changing table and changed DD on there every time until she dot too wriggly. I prefer side on changing, and felt awkward and clumsy doing it front on!
OP that unit looks amazing, but HUGE! You'd need a big nursery to fit that in.

I'm all about the mat on the floor. Couldn't imagine buying a piece of furniture specifically designed for wiping shitty arses.

i had a changing station and only used it a handful of times in the end, although it did get used to store stuff on

I definitely prefer side on changing - surely you're right in firing range if you're at the end?

That changing station looks mahoosive. I'm not sure where you actually put things down on it, though - lots of drawers but not much surface space.

We adapted the utility room work surface for DD (added brackets and a piece of MDF to make a ridge around the side to stop her falling off), which worked perfectly. We moved house for DS. I was going to use the top of his chest of drawers upstairs but then had a c-section so we got a changing table downstairs. Still using it now he's 2.4 (he sometimes climbs up himself though). It's useful to keep a spare outfit underneath and the next lot of nappies or whatever.

I've got two DC and have always used a mat on the floor. Infact I have two, one for upstairs and one for downstairs!

Changing table a complete waste of money and I speak as someone who had an emergency caesarean.
Get two cheap plastic padded mats. Downstairs ours when on the dining table (open plan), upstairs on the bed. Moved to floor changing once baby was bigger / might roll and I was fully healed! (About 3 months).

I had a changing table in the nursery with ds1 and 2. I'd occasionally use it for the first nappy change of the day...not after that though. Sometimes walking upstairs is just too much bloody effort so a mat on the floor it was. I won't be getting one this time.

OP have you had a baby yet? If not I suggest holding off on things like these. We too got a changing station, very decoratively pretty similar to this. We've just sold it off for a fiver.

Top of draws if you have a c section. If not, floor.

Really. Pretty picturesque Pinterest-ey things are lovely when pregnant, waiting for the first born. And then you find that - none of that actually works quite, in real life.