Actually I think its either the councils or state government as they would set the guidelines for shops etc. to comply with in relation to parking spaces when first built.
I have actually thinking the same thing as I already have trouble getting out of the car and I'm only halfway. I can't imagine what I'll be like towards the end.
I actually work in local government and I just wanted to say that when we assess new developments we can't make them provide bigger bays than what the regulated standards are (I don't know if its through state govt or aust standards or what) so we can only use those as guidelines. Also from my experience in local govt I know that for the purposes of disabled access in buildings etc, pregnant women are included in the temporaily disabled category! Don't know how we'd go getting acrod stickers though!
That's interesting mellybelly about being considered temporaily disabled. A few times while out I had to run into the disabled toilet in shopping centers I felt pretty bad about it but dh said that I was 'disabled' at the time and I needed to go to the bathroom so I should be able to use them. I used them when I had the runs and a disabled toilet was the closest and at other times to dry reach in (not vomiting but i wanted some privacy while I had a massive dry reaching episode) and then while I was heavily pregnant because I needed more room to move my belly and bag etc around in. At the end of the day we are living in a society so I can't imagine anyone having a go at you being pregnant and using facilities which will help you function better.
I hate it when that happens... I also hate it when people park in parenting and disabled parking spaces and their kids are school aged or older teenagers and they don't even have a pram or carseat in their car...
I give those kind of people such dirty looks and talk really loudly where everyone can hear me about how stupid and bad they are lol I get a kick out of it and they get all embarrassed!
And then there's the people at the major shopping centres who drop their kids of at kinder/day care in the morning and park in the parents with prams car parks while they go off to work and leave the car there all day!
Most shopping days (only once a fortnight currently lol) I walk the 1.5km down to the shopping centre anyway, even with these supposedly unstable ligaments of mine lol otherwhise I would never get any exercise since I'm supposed to be on couch rest again lol
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I felt pretty bad about it but dh said that I was 'disabled' at the time and I needed to go to the bathroom so I should be able to use them. I used them when I had the runs and a disabled toilet was the closest and at other times to dry reach in (not vomiting but i wanted some privacy while I had a massive dry reaching episode) and then while I was heavily pregnant because I needed more room to move my belly and bag etc around in. At the end of the day we are living in a society so I can't imagine anyone having a go at you being pregnant and using facilities which will help you function better.
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