I feel dumb, but I have to ask...

[amberj]

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!

[Ginger]

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

[visitor1]

I generally use parent rooms and they have big toilets where you can fit the pram in with you!

[feeb]

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

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

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!

[Daydream Believer]

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

[loulabelle]

I use Parents Rooms if they are available, otherwise a disabled toilet will usually be big enough to fit the pram.

[~Trish~]

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!

[Ellibam]

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

[Turkish Delight]

yep. Parents room or disabled toilet too.

[Doing my best]

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..

[sconeonamission]

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!

[Neenee Jellybeanie]

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..

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.

[Mum2SweetCs]

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.

[M22]

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

[AnyDream]

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!