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Baby changing rooms
Just wondered where you have found the nicest ones as I am really p***ed off with Tesco's, I have been in twice to the baby changing room there and both times they have had no nappies or wetwipes and have been dirty, I know i should take a change bag with me really but i have quite enough to lug about and keep an eye on and little hands to watch or we will have anything and everything off the shelves.
Asda near us is really nice always clean and smells good too and always has a good stock of nappies and wipes.
Have also used Mothercare and they were even worse than Tesco for cleanliness, my feet stuck to the floor and i don't even want to think about what made the floor sticky!
Where have been your best and worst?
Just wondered if it was just the Tesco in our area or all of them.
Asda near us is really nice always clean and smells good too and always has a good stock of nappies and wipes.
Have also used Mothercare and they were even worse than Tesco for cleanliness, my feet stuck to the floor and i don't even want to think about what made the floor sticky!
Where have been your best and worst?
Just wondered if it was just the Tesco in our area or all of them.
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Our local boots one is ok but it has been really smelly lately, and the changing mat is really manky so I've stopped going in there.
Any that have a toilet in them get my vote! The one in the market is a huge room with a private bf-ing room (haven't looked in that bit of it) and it has a toilet, but you can't lock the room door and the toilet isn't big enough to fit a pushchair in which isn't that helpful!
I was most impressed with an m&s one which had a toilet and one of those toddler chairs with straps as well as sink. THe mothercare one is nice with comfy seats and stuff.. but again no room in the toilet for a pushchair!
I'm easily pleased with changing rooms.. clean, enough room for pushchair and a toilet.. thats all I need!
Most supermarkets have a policy to provide nappies and wipes, our tesco is meant to but they are so useless that the cupboard they stock up from is left unlocked and tbh it looked as if someone had raided it because there was pretty much just wrappers left.
If they don't provide stuff it is fine with me but it does bug me when they say they provide it and then don't, also Tesco are meant to be all for mums and babies with their baby club but that was crap too, i applied just before lo was born and didn't get my pack until she was over 6 months and it was then too late to get free gift as lo had to be a certain age!
The baby changing facilities in one place i went consisted of a portacabin and something that looked like a wallpaper table and not much light, it was a bit of a daredevil change as i couldn't exactly see what suprises the nappy held lol!
I worked in our local Safeway years ago and the changing rooms were checked every 30 mins, cleaned and restocked.
I'm quite lucky, I live near the centre of town so usually don't need to change Max when we're out. Although once I had to use BHS baby changing and could just about squeeze buggy in.
I was very impressed with adsa, though! It had lots of room, separate toilet, and a baby feeding room as well. Don't know if it stocked nappies etc cos i didn't even know these places supplied them! :roll: duh!
Our ASDA is clean but basic (no loo in their though) & our Mothercare one is the worst I've seen so far...mainly because it always seems to stink & it gets very hot (I sweated when I went in there to BF), I'm not surprised it's bad as the majority of the store staff are vacant!
McDonalds is just a worktop space & the whole state of the town centre one has gone downhill in cleanliness, I used to work there as a student & never let it get that bad, they even had no loo roll & had put napkins out to use instead!
You've made me want to go & inspect all the ones in town now...I'll have to report back when I'm done!
I never realised some places give nappies & wipes - if they left them out anywhere in Crewe they would be swiped by someone straight away!
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I have the disposable changing mats too... I use them as an extra mat extention when I'm changing lo at other peoples houses.. I know baby pee cleans up pretty easily but some people get really nervous at the thought of getting a bit of pee on their carpets! My ex even made me take lo upstairs to change him cause he was fussing over his new carpets! Can't complain too much about the ex though cause he means well and was the first one to send a congrats card when lo was born!
As i said i don't mind if they don't supply stuff just wish they didn't say they did then not bother.
As for not cleaning up if you make a mess i think that is so gross, how would those mingers like taking their lo into a poo ridden place, bet they would be the first to kick off!
The only thing i like about our Tesco's one is they have a big mirror that lo can look in and it is one of the only things that will keep my lo still, normally i am trying to do the nappy up on a moving target lol!