Changing rooms

The Herald reports:

A woman has defended a man after he was shamed out of a parents’ room in a Sunshine Coast shopping centre.

According to witness Mikaa Ives the man was trying to change his son’s nappy when another mother walked over to him, accused him of being a “sicko” and ordered him to leave.

“There was a dad in the middle of changing his son’s nappy, already having a difficult time with his son not wanting to be changed,” Mikaa Ives wrote on a local parenting Facebook group page.

The woman allegedly accused the father of “staring at her naked kids” and threatened to call security.

“The lady piped up and started abusing the dad for being in the parents’ room: ‘It’s only for mothers, get out you sicko’, literally saying she would call security and say he was staring at her naked kids if he didn’t leave the room,” Ives said.

“He picked up his son who mind you didn’t even have a clean nappy on yet and went to stand outside the door.

 

“His son was hysterical and he’s just saying ‘its okay mate, we’ll go back in there soon.”

What a terrible woman. I hope karma gets her one day. As the other mother explains, this is a parents room. not a mothers room

Which brings me to a small bugbear of mine. Places that have baby changing facilities only in the women’s restrooms. They obviously don’t realise us Dads do nappy changes also.

If there is no baby changing facility in the men’s restrooms, I’ll sometimes ask for permission to use the facility in the women’s restrooms.

The best facility has a dedicated parent’s room or has the baby change facility in a unisex bathroom such as a paraplegic bathroom.

Having said that you don’t always get to choose where you need to do a nappy change. I’ve had to do one on the floor of a shopping mall and another in a shoe shop!