Changing year and a half year old on a plane

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's never acceptable to change a child's diaper in your seat. I don't care how old the child is.

When I flew with an 8 week old, I got up to change him in the bathroom. The flight attendant told me to just do it in the seat.

So? That doesn’t make it ok.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friend is a flight attendant and she said that people always change their baby at the tray table and then give her the diaper to throw out. People are disgusting!

OMG. Terrible. I'm sorry for your friend. We fly A LOT. I've always changed my kid in the airplane bathroom. He thinks it's fun. After the kid is older and you can do standing diaper changes, he can stand on the closed toilet seat. Until then, yes, there are changing tables. Bring your own disposable pad if you're a germaphobe. We just use purell wipes generously until we deplane and then take showers/baths as the first available opportunity...

This. I’ve probably flown 50 times or more with a child in diapers (I have 3 kids and we travel a ton). Always always always change them in the bathroom. On a few rare occasions when the bathroom was tiny and not maneuverable I asked flight attendants and they let me change the baby (on top of changing pad) on the floor in the galley under their jump seats. Diapers MJST be disposed of in the lavatory. That’s not even an option. I think once in 8 years I changed a small baby’s diaper at our seat (pee only) because the fasten seatbelt sign never went off and she was very wet. It was a super fast change and I did it across my lap and dh’s.

I can’t believe people actually do the above regularly. How thoughtless.

Actually, diapers are not supposed to be disposed of anywhere on the plane. We take plastic grocery sacks to bag up any dirty diapers and carry off plane ourselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's never acceptable to change a child's diaper in your seat. I don't care how old the child is.

When I flew with an 8 week old, I got up to change him in the bathroom. The flight attendant told me to just do it in the seat.

So? That doesn’t make it ok.

Not saying it's ok. Just saying that's what the boss of the plane told me to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's never acceptable to change a child's diaper in your seat. I don't care how old the child is.

When I flew with an 8 week old, I got up to change him in the bathroom. The flight attendant told me to just do it in the seat.

So? That doesn’t make it ok.

actually, it does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are changing tables in the airplane bathrooms. Never, never in the seat. Never.

There are changing tables in many airplane bathrooms, but not all. We have taken our 1 year old on 8 round trip flights. No changing tables on at least 5 of those flights. On the last flight back from Phoenix, the flight attendant actually made the announcement, "Sorry, but there are no changing tables in any of the 3 bathrooms on this flight." Gee, thanks for that!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's never acceptable to change a child's diaper in your seat. I don't care how old the child is.

When I flew with an 8 week old, I got up to change him in the bathroom. The flight attendant told me to just do it in the seat.

So? That doesn’t make it ok.

Of course it makes it ok. You're literally required by law to follow instructions given by a flight attendant.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:PPs, is it ok to change a baby in the car? Like in an open cargo trunk area of the car? I saw a dad doing this a few months ago while street parked at the outlet mall and I had mixed feelings about it.

Aside from the cold, why would there be any concern about that? We used to change DC in the back of our Outback all the time. Now there's even a travel potty back there for emergencies.

My partner does this all the time. The back of his SUV is probably far cleaner than any bathroom changing table. Mind your business PP.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:WTF??? You change a baby in the bathroom, on the changing table!!! Don't be that person putting feces and pee on another person's seat.

Except on our Southwest flight last eeek, there was no changing table in the bathroom. Now that’s a major WTF.

Impossible. Look harder next time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WTF??? You change a baby in the bathroom, on the changing table!!! Don't be that person putting feces and pee on another person's seat.

Except on our Southwest flight last eeek, there was no changing table in the bathroom. Now that’s a major WTF.

Impossible. Look harder next time.

No changing tables in the airplane bathrooms is pretty common, unfortunately. I've been told by flight attendants, well you can just close the seat!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friend is a flight attendant and she said that people always change their baby at the tray table and then give her the diaper to throw out. People are disgusting!

OMG. Terrible. I'm sorry for your friend. We fly A LOT. I've always changed my kid in the airplane bathroom. He thinks it's fun. After the kid is older and you can do standing diaper changes, he can stand on the closed toilet seat. Until then, yes, there are changing tables. Bring your own disposable pad if you're a germaphobe. We just use purell wipes generously until we deplane and then take showers/baths as the first available opportunity...

This. I’ve probably flown 50 times or more with a child in diapers (I have 3 kids and we travel a ton). Always always always change them in the bathroom. On a few rare occasions when the bathroom was tiny and not maneuverable I asked flight attendants and they let me change the baby (on top of changing pad) on the floor in the galley under their jump seats. Diapers MJST be disposed of in the lavatory. That’s not even an option. I think once in 8 years I changed a small baby’s diaper at our seat (pee only) because the fasten seatbelt sign never went off and she was very wet. It was a super fast change and I did it across my lap and dh’s.

I can’t believe people actually do the above regularly. How thoughtless.

Actually, diapers are not supposed to be disposed of anywhere on the plane. We take plastic grocery sacks to bag up any dirty diapers and carry off plane
ourselves.

Nope. I’ve been told by multiple airline personnel that the lavatory bathroom is he place to dispose of diapers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are changing tables in the bathrooms above the toilet on even the small planes out of 35x. Use them. Please.

Just FYI, not always the case. I was on a Southwest flight coming back from Mexico two weeks ago and there were no changing tables in the bathroom. I had to put my HUGE 2 year old on the toilet and do a standing, poopy diaper change. It was hard, but possible.