While at Walmart this morning my little one decided to poop so I took her into the restroom but I wasnt sure whether or not to use that changing table thing they got on the wall. So i just reclined her stroller seat and changed her diaper in there. Wasnt sure how dirty that thing was.
2006-09-09 07:15:24 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
In public areas, whether it be one of those changing tables, a counter top, a baby seat in a shopping cart or whatever, I would always wipe it down or put some sort of changing pad under my baby before stripping him naked.
You never know what has been there before you but even with that you have no gaurantee that the surface is clean.
You can carry this to the extreme though. You can't keep all germs away from your child and you don't really want to. If you keep him in too sterile an atmosphere then you open yourself up to a whole lot of other problems such as making him over-sensetive to germs so that he would catch anything going around because he has no resistance to them. That's a whole different problem.
You just have to take some basic precautions but you don't want to over do it. We all have to swallow some dirt during our lifetimes, it's only natural.
Good luck.
2006-09-09 13:12:29 · answer #1 · answered by wetsaway 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is not an easy thing to put your child on something you don't know what has been there first. when I had to make that decision I would take a wipe to it then I would also put the changing pad that comes in most diaper bags down on it too. may sound extreme to some but not to me the pad i knew was clean and it was a soft for comfort too.
2006-09-09 07:24:25 · answer #2 · answered by Noble Angel 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I alwyas wipe it down and then lay a blanket on it if i have to. Otherwise I change him in the stroller. Also, with the shopping carts that have the seat on them for babies, ,i wipe those down too and put a blanket on it, But most of the time I stick my car seat on the cart
2006-09-09 12:14:49 · answer #3 · answered by melashell 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all bring something like a easy washing blanket with you all the time.
Second, children now a days are kept sometimes to clean and they get no Resistance. So some "dirt" will not harm your child at all.
But I am with you, you never know how other parents keep their baby clean so think ahead and pack your own stuff.
2006-09-09 07:55:20 · answer #4 · answered by Sadaf 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have used the changing areas in stores, but I have taken my own changing mat to put down first, then I clean it with antibacterial stuff afterwards. My daughter has never suffered by catching anything by doing things this way.
2006-09-09 10:19:26 · answer #5 · answered by ♥Pamela♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't know how sanitary they are. I would recommend change the baby in the stroller or even walking out to your car before changing them on there.
2006-09-09 07:41:36 · answer #6 · answered by rn.student 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i used to be the same when my son was smaller. infact i used to carry around a little bottle of antibacterial spray i got free in a new mother pack and sprayed the surface first. like u say u just dont know how dirty those things really are
2006-09-09 07:23:47 · answer #7 · answered by alrightyyy_then 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
just take the changing pad out of your diaper bag and put it on there thats what i did. i dont wrry to much about them my sons bare bottom never touched it. i always put the dry diaper down under him then removed the dirty one.
2006-09-09 07:29:27 · answer #8 · answered by kleighs mommy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I used it I would wipe it down and still even put a clean blanket or just a blanket you use only when your changing your child.
2006-09-09 07:21:09 · answer #9 · answered by eclipse_girl18 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would never opt to use a public baby changing table ever. Never have, never will. I always change my kids in the vehicle. Public changing tables, yucky.
2006-09-09 09:58:31 · answer #10 · answered by Frugalmom 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋