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12-21-2012 at 10:58 AM
pb_bride
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Probably a stupid question but I want to know...

Baby M is 6wks and we've been going out several times a week for walks and to the grocery store.  All these trips are usually no longer than 1 hour; the only other outing we do is a BF support group which takes about 2hrs including the drive.

Now that I'm a bit more confident as a mom, at some point I would like to venture out for longer periods with M.  What I have been wondering is, if you're out w/LO, what do you do if you need to use the bathroom???  I can't seem to figure out how moms do it.  You can't take the stroller w/you into the stall cuz there's not enough room, but I don't see how I can carry M in my arms into the stall and pee - don't I need 3 arms to do that?  Yet leaving M alone in the stroller outside the bathroom stall doesn't seem safe.  Can someone enlighten me?  Or do I just hold it in until I get home?!  Sorry if this is a dumb question... I bet there is an easy answer to this!


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12-21-2012 at 11:08 AM
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Use the handicap stall which will give you far more room for a stroller.  Or, if you're lucky, where you go will have a family bathroom.

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12-21-2012 at 11:15 AM
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I have had the same question! I usually wear E in the moby, but the idea of wearing her on the toilet seems gross and wrong. I have just been holding it so far. If I'm gone really long, I usually have MH or a friend with me.

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12-21-2012 at 11:32 AM
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Take the stroller in the handicap stall or carry the baby in a moby or bjorn and hold her while peeing.


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12-21-2012 at 11:53 AM
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itsmevkb:
Use the handicap stall which will give you far more room for a stroller.  Or, if you're lucky, where you go will have a family bathroom.

This is what I did and still do.


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12-21-2012 at 11:57 AM
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I just use the handicap stall.
 
12-21-2012 at 12:04 PM
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Aha!  I knew there is an obvious answer to this.  Handicapped stall - DOH!  Thanks ladies, another life's mystery solved!  Happy Friday to you all!

Me:39 DH:40 TTC since 10/2008
RE consult 6/2010 Dx:Unexplaied IF
Multiple failed cycles of Clomid+TI and Clomid+IUI
3/2011 inj+IUI #1 BFP. 4/2011 missed m/c. D&C w/Path: partial molar preg. 6 mo break
Fall 2011 inj+IUI #2&3 BFN
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12-21-2012 at 1:22 PM
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Oh gosh ... family restrooms are THE BOMB!  They should be everywhere.

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12-21-2012 at 1:25 PM
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It depends upon the bathroom. If there is an accessible stall, I bring the stroller in with me. If not I just park the stroller in front of the stall and pee with the door open. I use the furthest stall for this to avoid people needing to walk around the stroller and or get a view of me.

If wearing him in a bjorn I could pee as usual.

At home if I was nursing and had to pee I could manage to keep the boy on me if I was wearing the my breast friend, I could still manage to pee and wipe with one hand and wash my hand, while holding him on it with the other hand.

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12-21-2012 at 2:16 PM
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I've taken the stroller into the bathroom or peed while wearing him w/ my beco.  I've even held him and peed with one hand at home. 

 


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12-21-2012 at 3:17 PM
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I agree, family bathrooms or handicap stalls are the best! Also, after a little practice I got pretty good at holding Chloe and peeing at the same time lol!


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12-21-2012 at 3:49 PM
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Not at all a dumb question, look's like the answer's covered :)

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12-21-2012 at 4:03 PM
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itsmevkb:
Use the handicap stall which will give you far more room for a stroller.  Or, if you're lucky, where you go will have a family bathroom.
Yup. The handicapped stall is the key.


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12-21-2012 at 5:23 PM
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Handicap stall all the way. In desperate times Ive held him on my lap. Lol

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12-21-2012 at 8:09 PM
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itsmevkb:
Use the handicap stall which will give you far more room for a stroller.  Or, if you're lucky, where you go will have a family bathroom.

this for sure.


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