Mumsnetters share the biggest mess their children have made while out and about with Nice ‘n Clean

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It’s happened to all parents, you turn your back for all of three seconds and what you see on your return shocks you - it’s difficult to comprehend how your child made that much mess! Whether it’s Sudocrem, spaghetti or paint that they’ve managed to cover themselves in, the clean up is more manageable in the comfort of your own home. Baby wipes can be an essential when out and about, but with increasing awareness around their environmental impact, it can be easy to feel guilty about their use. With this in mind and following their launch of plastic free baby wipes Aqualettes, Nice n Clean would like to hear about the biggest mess your child has made while out and about.

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What was the biggest mess your child has ever made while out and about? How did you tackle the clean up? Do you have to approach the situation differently if you’re out of the house? Do you feel guilty about using baby wipes containing plastic?

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Coca Cola spilt all over our meals in pizza express

I am actually going to cite one from my childhood....

It was 1977...we were in BHS (yes in the days when there were good old familiar names on the High St!)...they had a special display for the queens jubilee - cans piled up in the shape of a pyramid...I had a habit of wandering off and was well known to all the security guards and staff. Well needless to say the display was destroyed by me and over the tannoy my mum and nana heard the usual announcement ....'Would Topsy73 mum or nana please come and collect her from the office....'

When my little boy was a few weeks old I went to visit a friend, we sat outside next to each other on a picnic table just chatting away, little boy on my knee. My son's nappy felt a bit heavy so rather than go inside I decided to change him on my knee; I stripped him off & lifted his legs up, he trumped and then followed by the most explosive mess - rocketed out, all over my friend & I (a bit even went in her mouth yuk). Messssyyyy

My Dad would say it was the day I took part in a sponsored giant ball roll around a nearby park with Cubs (so I was about 9). The grass had been mown the day before, it had rained overnight, and this inflatable ball that we were pushing was a bit over Cub-head height. You can imagine the soaking grass-covered little figure that greeted him when he came to pick me up. This being over 25 years ago, and us living in the next village, he didn't try to clear up anything, just opened the car boot and told me to get in! (The leaders thought he was joking, but I knew him better!!)

Sitting with my sister in the cafe bit of a soft play, both looking at the structure trying to locate our boys (both age 2). Can't see them. After a while we look around the cafe and discover they have been busy emptying every single condiment sachet on every single table. Wish we had taken a photo. Carnage.

DD, aged 4 on a lovely day out once upturned a large chocolate milkshake over her face to look at the contents thinking it was a thick style variety you get at a well known burger chain... Hair, face and white dress covered/stained for the remainder of the day! Lesson learned by DD though!

Ooh which one to choose?! It's happened so many times. There was the time my youngest weed himself in the museum, and left a huge puddle on the floor (staff had to go and get those plastic barrier things in case anyone slipped before they mopped it up!). There was the time my middle child tipped an entire bowl of pasta (with tomato sauce) all over their head in a restaurant. Or the time one child, I don't recall which one, was fidgeting and touching things in a DIY store, and managed to knock a pot of paint off a shelf, which burst open on the floor, splashing all over everything and everyone in the vicinity. We weren't popular that day!

Toddler got the sudocrem out at the park while I was changing baby. It went absolutely everywhere

For me the messiest was at home when I popped upstairs to grab something and came back down to my nearly two year old sat in just pants and covered in suncream. She'd tried to "help" but it was just a suncream bath, she was sat on the tiled floor and it was just a pool of white. She shouldn't get burnt until she's about 60 with how much she used.

Definitely carsickness. Mine can spew and spew and spew.

Pulled one book off a book shelf in a book store and caused the whole shelf to topple over! The store said it was their fault though and sent a box of free books as an apology!

Our DD 'fell' in a peat bog on a walk in the local hills. OMG, I can still smell the smell now!

We took mine to see a dairy farm and the cows being milked. Unfortunately one of the cows decided to evacuate itself all over the unaware child behind it. Full hose job required to get some of it off but I will remember the smell of the drive home forever.

Our DD loves nothing more than getting out to the park and rolling down every hill she finds, and has the most fun if it's been raining and is super muddy.
The saying a dirty child is a happy child definitely applies to her haha.

Definitely when he was little and he had a poonami in the shopping centre ! Straight to the changing room and lots of baby wipes were used! Thankfully I had spare clothes for him

Opening & distributing a tub of Sudocrem from a shelf in Boots while still sat in her buggy & I was distracted looking at something else...we didn’t go back in for 12 months

My daughter was very sicky as a baby and I remember her crying one time in the supermarket. I got her out of the seat and she was milk sick all over the floor! Spit up milk goes so far and it was one of those moments when you just want to leave! A lovely staff member helped clean up and we carried on our shop.

Our DS was sick in Alnwick Castle when he was 2. We got him cleaned up with wipes and an amazing member of staff cleaned up the sick. We have since re visited the castle on a more recent trip and thankfully no incidents to report.

I took my daughter to a soft play with her sister. She did the biggest poop I have ever seen and it squished everywhere, it came out the back and the legs of the nappy. It was all up her back and I must have used at least a dozen wet wipes, she needed a whole change of clothes and the changing mat was covered. It was a complete disaster zone and I was in the changing room so long I got a ticket on my car as I overstayed. I did dispute the ticket and gave them my full sob story and luckily they must have been a parent themselves as they let me off!

The biggest mess my daughter made when she was a toddler was flipping her plate of nuggets, beans and chips when we were in wetherspoons. She also knocked my pepsi over and beans and pepsi went everywhere!!

My mum taught my son to say "all gone" and then put the bowl on his head when he had finished, unfortunately his bowl was not always empty and he ended up wearing it.

In a supermarket my dd knocked a box of washing power all over the floor, we had to ask an employee to come and clean it up.

We went for a family meal out and were all having a lovely time my niece aged 4 decided she'd had enough to eat and sat under the table playing with her doll, my sister quite happy as she said" well we know where she is and she can't get up to much" Ha !!! famous last words I had to take my toddler to the toilet and asked if the child under the table needed to go too.
The look of horror on my sister's face is forever etched in my brain, as her daughter emerged her entire face and head covered in a thick coating of suspected .It was hilarious and if I ever have a rough day I think of that day

if out and about includes visiting then this one was the worst!!!....... I was visiting my mother with my son and he reached the stage where he wanted to go to the toilet on his own, so I am sat in my mothers kitchen having a brew and a chat with her when it suddenly dawned on me that he had been in the bathroom for a good 6 minutes or so..... my mother said "Dont worry I will go up, you finish your brew".

Lets just say she came back downstairs all in a panic, running to the undersink cupboard to grab loads of cleaning stuff into a bucket. When I got up there there was poo - everywhere! it was in the toilet (good), but also on the toilet seat, the cistern and handle, all over the toilet roll on the holder (and the holder)... poo smears along the windowsill to the sink where both tap heads were covered in poo, the liquid soap dispenser was covered in poo, the sink had poo in it and there was blobs of poo on the floor which had been trodden around. The worst bit was he had touched the toothbrush holder and there was poo on one of the toothbrushes.

I am one of those people who find it really hard not to laugh in situations like this - but my mother's face....

.... luckily she had some new toothbrushes so the lot was thrown out and that bathroom was gleaming (and smelt great) by the time I finished with it!

As for wipes with plastic in - yes I feel incredibly guilty that I used wipes in the past for our son! Years ago we didnt realise they were full of plastic and I would never have used them if I knew.

On a family visit to the dentist when DS was about 2, I went in to my appointment, leaving DH in charge.
When I came out, the waiting room looked like a farmyard! DS had found a spade in the toybox, and dug up several large plants, whilst DS read the paper, oblivious. Never been so horrified!