For those who change your LOs diapers in the car

FolanMama

Do you do that every time you are out?  Even if there is a changing table in the bathroom and you have your own changing mat, you still leave the resturant to change your LO's diaper in the car?  Am I reading this wrong b/c this sounds like crazy talk to me.  What is wrong with using your changing mats?

Coleslawcat

I don't always go to the car to change my kids, but I do often. I do it because with two it is easier to do it in the car than to worry about the other child. If it's the baby who needs a diaper my 2 year old can hang out with me, but if she's the one who needs a change I don't know where to set him in a public bathroom. Of course this only applies when I'm out running errangs by myself and don't have the stroller with me.

ncbelle

Depends on where we are quite honestly.  I've only used a public changing table once - usually I'm not away from the car long enough that I have to use a restroom changing table.

I'm not even really a germ phob (as in I let the dogs lick kiddo, etc) but I hate public restrooms.  Kiddo also does NOT lay still for a change; I'd rather him roll around in my car than possibly roll off a public one - and he touches everything!

 

ETA: I also avoid lugging around a diaper bag whenever possible ;-)

yoko589

Funny thing.  The last 3 sushi restaurants that I have been to, there have not been changing tables in the bathrooms at all!  I just realized that the other day.  I don't think I have been anywhere else that hasn't had them.  I thought they were required.  That's the only time I would change DD's diaper in the car. 

Monkeybuttwhat

I have an Envoy and a Cherokee so it is really easy to just put the pad up there and change her in the back before I toss the stroller in and leave. I am not against using bathrooms but for the most part I like doing it this way. It is safer for her and easier on my back. 

RachandJer

We have used the car when we were in a restaurant with no space for changing, traveling, or in a place with a yucko restroom.

CMDR513

RachandJer:

We have used the car when we were in a restaurant with no space for changing, traveling, or in a place with a yucko restroom.

Same here.

ElizC

Monkeybuttwhat:

I have an Envoy and a Cherokee so it is really easy to just put the pad up there and change her in the back before I toss the stroller in and leave. I am not against using bathrooms but for the most part I like doing it this way. It is safer for her and easier on my back. 

This expect we have an Equinox and an Escape.  It is just is easier in the car than a public restroom.

lzbflogrl

i have changed DS in the car once, only because the restaurant didnt have a changing table.