https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 16 May 2026 18:30:37 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1580101 Mon, 21 Apr 2014 07:25:46 +0000 hotchildinthecity 1580101@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In NYC, bathrooms are usually really tiny and sometimes its just one unisex one. I rarely notice a changing table available at all, but maybe i'm eating at a lot of places that aren't kid friendly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1580095 Mon, 21 Apr 2014 07:21:46 +0000 Smurfette 1580095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am not sure. Usually I take her if we have to change her in public. </p> <p>We were driving back from Christmas and stopped for lunch somewhere. They had no changing table. The car was packed, so there was no room in the car either. I laid disposable mats on the floor then the padded one but it really grossed me out, even though she didn't touch anything. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1580087 Mon, 21 Apr 2014 07:02:55 +0000 looch 1580087@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I actually have no idea if there are changing stations readily available for my husband to use! I usually did the changing or just used the stroller, gross, I know.</p> <p>I've also leveraged the sink area. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1580085 Mon, 21 Apr 2014 07:01:03 +0000 Foodnerd81 1580085@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We tend to assume there isn't one in the men's room and more often I just do the change myself. :( Not fun but at least there is something. We have been at restaurants where there weren't any which is worse. </p> <p>@Mrs tartan: I bet moms wouldn't mind if a dad came into the women's room, but non-moms would be like wtf get out! </p> <p>@SweetMamaM: those family rooms sound amazing! I want one! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579922 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 21:31:15 +0000 SweetMamaM 1579922@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think that there are any change tables in the men's room in NZ but they aren't often in the ladies' room either. That's why malls are so popular over here with parents with young children as they have parent lounges with couches, microwaves for formula, play areas, parent and child toilets (one room, two toilets with one being toddler-sized for your toilet training buddy) and change tables. There are even feeding cubicles for those who are shyer or whose little ones get distracted. The first time hubby and I were in one, he was astounded at how flash they were! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579918 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 21:26:11 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 1579918@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Honestly? We have only used family bathroom since having LO. We both go in and one holds the diaper bag while the other does the change.<br /> I never asked DH about the men's room. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579711 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 17:00:43 +0000 LemonLong 1579711@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband does all the diaper changes while we are out. He says probably more than 80% of the time there is one. Usually he finds them in the handicapped stall. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579703 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 16:52:09 +0000 birdofafeather 1579703@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i have been finding that a lot of places don't have one in either restroom! (not main places like target, etc) so we end up outside or at the car. boo! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579635 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 15:38:34 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 1579635@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This bothers me a lot. A lot of times DH has had to come back to me and ask me to do the diaper changing because we forgot that there wasn't any in the men's bathroom! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579612 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 14:54:06 +0000 Andrea 1579612@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH hasn't had an issue. He always changes the diapers when we are out! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579606 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 14:45:23 +0000 mrbee 1579606@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@locavore_mama: That's actually not the norm where I live! Hopefully businesses catch up as norms change... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579602 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 14:42:57 +0000 MamaJ 1579602@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So irritating. We went on a road trip and made a stop. DH went to the bathroom and I told him to look for a changing table and there wasn't one. I went into the women's bathroom and there was a nice clean changing table, A diaper genie, and a place to set your bag. There was also a bench in there (could be used for nursing I suppose). </p> <p>DH is always willing to change diapers out and about but sometimes it's impossible! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579562 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 13:54:37 +0000 citymouse 1579562@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Super annoying. I have changed LO in my lap in a bathroom before! Not ideal, but I just didn't want to put him on the floor! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579551 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 13:49:21 +0000 regberadaisy 1579551@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's hard because by code we're not required to put a changing table in any bathroom. And it's a hard item to convince a small business owner to put in. When you do then suddenly it's an item you have to design around including accessibility issues. Which you can imagine means more space. Which means more money and less revenue. </p> <p>Sadly, the norm still is that mostly it's the mom that takes child to diaper changes. So if a diaper changing station is going in it's always the women's room. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579546 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 13:46:44 +0000 SugarplumsMom 1579546@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. Definitely one of the perks we can now benefit from as parents (I don't have to be the only one changing diapers when we're out together). But the changing tables aren't always in the men's bathroom - it's in a unisex bathroom or parent bathroom. But if there isn't a family bathroom, there's always one in both (men's and women's). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579529 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 13:28:35 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1579529@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This drives me nuts too!! DH does a lot with J while I do homework and it is such a pain when he has to find other places to change diaper. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579523 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 13:23:18 +0000 MrsKoala 1579523@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No and it's annoying. I hate that the expectation is that the woman does all the baby care. My husband changes most of the diapers and can't do it as easily when we are out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579494 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 13:02:38 +0000 avivoca 1579494@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A few places have family bathrooms, but in restaurants the changing table is generally in the ladies room. I have been places where there wasn't one at all and that was a huge inconvenience. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579485 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:52:44 +0000 mrbee 1579485@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs tartan: I'm sure most moms wouldn't mind, but also pretty sure some would! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579484 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:51:26 +0000 Mrs tartan 1579484@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In the UK there are lots of seperate changing rooms. As a woman I would have absaloutely no problem with a dad coming into the woman's bathroom if that's where the only changing table was. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579480 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:47:47 +0000 GrapeCrush 1579480@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>it's very frustrating that there aren't always changing tables in the mens rooms around here. my husband takes the kids out by himself a lot. one day we went to a restaurant and both kids had poopy diapers(naturally), so we decided to divide and conquer, and each take a kid. however, there wasn't a changing table in the mens room, so I got the lovely pleasure of changing both diapers. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579413 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 11:46:01 +0000 Madison43 1579413@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A local mall has a unisex lounge outside of the entrance to the men's and women's bathrooms with a few cushy chairs and a big changing station. This is the perfect solution - everyone has the same access and you don't have change the baby in the actual restroom. At least here, those plastic koala station are usually kind of gross. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579368 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 10:48:28 +0000 wonderstruck 1579368@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I know it's a pretty awful disparity here too - my cousin is a SAHD and seems to run into this problem all the time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579364 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 10:45:02 +0000 sunny 1579364@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I haven't been in any mens rooms so I don't know first hand! But I just assume there are no facilities and I do all the changing when we are out.</p> <p>In Japan there are dedicated family areas in department stores. I think it's great! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579360 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 10:39:17 +0000 luckypenny 1579360@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is my biggest pet peeve (obviously because then I have to change all the diapers everytime we are out). And what about gay dads?! Or single dads?! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579355 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 10:34:10 +0000 lawbee11 1579355@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh, that's BS. Whenever we've had to change her at a restaurant there's either been no changing tables at all or changing tables in both. We rarely have to change her in public, though, because we change her right before we leave and are usually only gone for an hour or two at a time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/changing-tables-in-the-mens-bathroom#post-1579354 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 10:32:02 +0000 mrbee 1579354@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Went to a men's bathroom yesterday to change a messy diaper, and had to do it in on the floor. Meanwhile, the woman's bathroom there had a deluxe wood changing table with free wipes. I'm always surprised at the ongoing disparity between men and women's bathrooms.</p> <p>Is your area good about having changing tables in both bathrooms? </p>