Why me?

Aug 15, 2007 at 3:51 PM
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Today we took a field trip with some other moms and kids to Habitot. It was fun, overwhelming, but fun. It is a small area filled with lots of activities for kids of all ages. Of course, Bubble Toes was most interested in the water tables and the ~~finger~~ painting wall.

But this is what I don't get. Why am I the only mom who ends up covered in paint, too? I just couldn't figure out a good way to pick up Bubble Toes to take her to wash her hands in the sink, without ending up covered in paint myself, yet somehow the rest of the moms did it. When I mentioned this to a paint free mom she said (jokingly), "I guess I'm just a better mom than you!"

Oh, and I also got reprimanded for changing a wet diaper in the hallway (on a pad) outside of the museum.

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Seriously -- what is peoples problem with a diaper change in a (discreet) public area? Sometimes the thought of those public fold-down diaper changing areas squick me out, and so I find a nice private area away from anyone and lay down the seat of Mason's stroller flat, and change a wet diaper there. I have gotten so many disapproving looks! I mean, I'm clean about it, it's not like I'm doing it next to the dinner table in the middle of a restaurant, I'm quick, I don't ever change poopy diapers that way so I know there's not an offending smell -- sheesh people!

Amen sisters! People have no clue how hard it is to find a spot to change diapers. Those fold down tables are disgusting most times and sometimes public places don't even have them. Also it's very hard to do it in a car (at least in my sedan anyway) and that just leaves the floor really. I'm not sure if it is the nudity or the idea that bothers people so much.

Erin.'s way of changing in the stroller is new to me. I would have never thougt of that. Good idea.

Oh my gosh! How could you do such a thing!? :) Just Kidding!

People get offended by breast feeding in public so I'm not suprised they are also opposed to changing diapers in public. I usually change Nate on the tailgate if I'm in a hurry. I'm suprised I haven't been arrested yet!

A "better" mom....folks it isn't a contest! And like you, I usually ended up as messy as my kids.
As for diaper changing, I think you do it when you have to in as private a place as possible. A museum hallway...if there wasn't heavy traffic going through there, what's the problem! I think it is so wrong that public places do not provide a CLEAN space for moms and dads to feed/change their babies!

I totally agree, I have change Anya on all sorts of surfaces in public. I draw the line at some place that a person will sit or eat, but figure the ground is fair game!

Anya's Mom replied to WorkingTitle’s comment:
Aug 15, 2007
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I know! I have seen some really nasty public changing tables! I do often use the trunk of my car and have gotten some (positive) comments about that.

People need to get a grip sometimes. I think that often they forget that they once were children, too. That's why I don't get the anti-kid people. What do they think they were like as babies?

This time it wasn't just a random person, but apparently the policy of the museum. I saw a sign inside saying no diaper changes not in the bathroom, but I thought that only applied to the actual museum area, which I totally get, and not the hallway outside of it, but I guess not since it was an employee who did the reprimanding.

Anya's Mom replied to Random Musings’ comment:
Aug 15, 2007
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I agree! The comment was made in a very dry joke sort of way, and I know that she didn't really mean it, but there has been so much lately about the mommy wars and mom competition, which is just really silly.

The hallway was actually filled with kids sitting in their strollers eating their lunch. I wasn't blocking traffic and I don't think anyone (other than this one employee, a man, if that makes a difference) even noticed what I was doing.

Even if it was a joke it's still inappropriate. Why would you ever tell someone you are a better mom than she is? Especially when maybe you got messy since you were actually playing with your child? So you got messy. Then asked for some advice on staying unmessy in the future and you get that crap? So not helpful.

Random Musings replied to Anya's Mom’s comment:
Aug 15, 2007
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I see and hear too much that is competitive among mothers today. I agree with Angela K...totally inappropriate.

Oh, dear. I fear that I inadvertently misrepresented what happened with the other mom. I should have wrote that she sarcastically said that she was a better mom than me. I never once thought that she meant it. She is a very nice woman and would be horrified if she thought someone was offended by this statement. She knows that I would get her sense of humor, and that is why she felt ok saying something like that to me.

First off, looks like a cool place (at least for the kids, exhausting for us parents)!

Second off, I see how a fellow mom (with sense of humor) may say this to fellow friend mom. I'm of course benefiting from the fact that I just read your last comment ;)

Third off, I HATE those public fold-down changers! YUCK! I am spoiled by my gas-guzzling SUV. Changing the baby on the tailgate is much more sanitary...though occasionally even there I stared at. I then feel like shouting, "What people? It's just a bare baby bum...move along."

Hahaha, I know what you mean. I change Mase sometimes on my tailgate, too, and I swear it's going to cause an accident with people craning their necks to look and gripe at me.

.Erin. replied to WorkingTitle’s comment:
Aug 15, 2007
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The stroller thing works pretty good .. only when we're in the bigger, roomier "SUV" type stroller with the tray and everything (luckily the tray swings away to one side out of the way) but it doesn't work so well in the smaller, umbrella type stoller that we have. Even with him laying down all the way with his head up to the top, his butt is right off the edge and I don't want to risk any bare-bum slippage! :)

By the end of the day, my clothes are a map of everything we've done since getting dressed in the morning (Blob of yogurt? Check! Avocado? Check! Smushed Play-doh on my butt? Check!). And I've done the stroller change, too, but he's really too tall for it (and I'm too inept at it--poor kid always gets a wedgie from that one) at this point. I've even changed him standing up when there wasn't a changing table in the restroom (Yeah, I'm talking to YOU Chipotle). Stressful!

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