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So in the 8 weeks of my little one's life, I have so far managed to avoid needing to use a public toilet. But one day, inevitably, I will be out with him and will need to use one. What do I do with my baby?!!!
Do I leave him in his pram outside the stall? Do I take him in with me and try to do some gymnast like one handed toilet manouver? Do I leave the stall door open? ;)
Sometimes I feel like there is a whole set of "mum ettiquite" that I have NO idea about... can someone fill me in?!!!
Ta!
i always take him into the stall with me- if you go to a baby change room they usually have a toilet in a big stall in there (sort of like a disabled toilet iykwim?) just for this reason
I generally use parent rooms and they have big toilets where you can fit the pram in with you!
Lol haha i havent thought of that!!!! when i have been out i have been with friends and there kids before Jacob arrived i would watch ther kids why they went.
maybe u would use toilet in parents room
I ask my friend to watch DS while I'm in the loo, use the mother and baby loo or disabled loo, which you can put a pushchair in, or don't go.
Carriers are great too, going to the loo with a carrier on is so much easier than figuring out what to do with a pushchair!
If at a shopping centre go to a parents room, most have huge toilets & the pram will fit in with you
If its out nd about I have no idea sorry
I use Parents Rooms if they are available, otherwise a disabled toilet will usually be big enough to fit the pram.;)
I use the parent's room or a disabled toilet (the ones that are for parent's too with a change table).
Not a dumb question at all!
i did this too!!
i was busting and had to drive all the way home just so i could go to the toilet and my gf said why didnt you use the disabled toilet?!
duh! i felt like the biggest dummy! but being a first time mum and not one that ever used a disabled toilet before i didnt even think of it!
so use a disabled toilet(if no parent ones around) cos you and the pram can fit in there
yep. Parents room or disabled toilet too.
I use a parents room when there is one, but since having my DD have no issues in using a disabled toilet if there are no parents rooms.. (mind you, I felt so guilty the 1st time I did it).. Much safer to have bub in your sight at all times..
yeah ! All those suggestions are excellent!! Although, one day I was quickly popping into the shop and had ds just on my hip.. had to do it all one handed... I was successful! lol It can be done!
I think we should stop calling them 'disabled' toilets and start calling them 'accessible toilets' because mums with prams need them just as much as people with disabilities!:
I was waiting for a disabled toilet with DD once and the woman who came out WASN'T disabled, she wouldn't look me in the eye LOL.
There are some toilet cubicle that are big enough for shopping trolleys and prams that are not in the parents room.
I guess you just got to get to know your shopping centre.
I am amazed at how nice the parent's rooms are at the shopping centres around my area though.
In japan,
they have little high chairs built into the wall so you can pop bub in there- no idea why they dont do that here :(
I have no qualms about using a disabled toilet since I have *never* come out of one to find anyone other than another mum with a pram waiting!