13 January 2009

The cheers for the Canberra Centre baby change rooms?

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Over on the MumsWeb there’s a brief but heartfelt hymn of praise to the rooms for changing babies in the Canberra Centre.

    The change room in the canberra centre is so nice and so clean it even has a chair for babies about 6months plus to sit in so you can feed them food and that it lovely 🙂

Babychangers of RiotACT (not just mums right?), do you agree?

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emd said :

“don’t cross the streams”!

LOL!

thanks, I will try to remember that!

“don’t cross the streams”!

emd said :

Granny said :

It’s also good for those wild, adrenaline-charged, extreme toilet training moments when the kid in question is just not going to make it all the way through a department store and down the corridor to the Canberra Centre facilities.

Extreme toilet training… now there’s a sport that’s not for amateurs…

try it with twins. I am.

Granny said :

It’s also good for those wild, adrenaline-charged, extreme toilet training moments when the kid in question is just not going to make it all the way through a department store and down the corridor to the Canberra Centre facilities.

Extreme toilet training… now there’s a sport that’s not for amateurs…

Igglepiggle said :

emd said :

there’s no way I’m giving my baby his lunch in a room that smells like a toilet. I do it in the cafe while I have my own lunch, all nice and civilised (and time-saving – gets both of us fed at once).

Absolutely- I love that poster which has the cute baby on it and the caption “You wouldn’t eat your lunch in the toilet”

Fed my squalling newborn in the queue at Woolies Tuggeranong once. Stopped the crying pretty quickly.

and shut up the tut tutters too, i bet.

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :

There’s nothing quite so funny as when you’re in a public dunny somewhere, and someone comes charging in ripping their strides off, and sits down just in time to be greeted by a massive, wet tearing sound, as their bowels void as though vacuumed by an industrial pool cleaner.

Ah chilli, you spice my life in so many ways.

ROFLMAO!

emd said :

there’s no way I’m giving my baby his lunch in a room that smells like a toilet. I do it in the cafe while I have my own lunch, all nice and civilised (and time-saving – gets both of us fed at once).

Absolutely- I love that poster which has the cute baby on it and the caption “You wouldn’t eat your lunch in the toilet”

Fed my squalling newborn in the queue at Woolies Tuggeranong once. Stopped the crying pretty quickly.

The Myer one is often fairly quiet so is also good if you’re dead tired, the kids are dead tired, and everybody just needs to sit down for ten minutes and rest.

It’s also good for those wild, adrenaline-charged, extreme toilet training moments when the kid in question is just not going to make it all the way through a department store and down the corridor to the Canberra Centre facilities.

Back when I had my first baby in 2004, I got to be quite an expert on the CC change rooms.
The one inside the DJs ladies room (lower ground floor) was the least busy and had all private cubicles for baby-feeding, and carpeted floors. Good for when you wanted privacy (eg feeding a newborn or a distractable baby) but no good for fathers because it’s inside the ladies room.

The one in Myers (third floor, walk through baby clothes area to get to it) had high chairs, microwave, and carpet on the floor. Good for bottle feeders, or people who have twins and find it easier to put one or both in the high chair at feed time.

The CC one near Esprit was my favourite for multiple kids, because they had cartoons on the TV in an enclosed play space for the toddler and plenty of space to get in/out. The toddler toilet room could be cleaned more often though.

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy1:27 pm 13 Jan 09

There’s nothing quite so funny as when you’re in a public dunny somewhere, and someone comes charging in ripping their strides off, and sits down just in time to be greeted by a massive, wet tearing sound, as their bowels void as though vacuumed by an industrial pool cleaner.

Ah chilli, you spice my life in so many ways.

We think the CC change rooms are excellent. Having moved here from north queensland where two shopping centres out of three have no change facilities other than a drop down table in the disabled toilets, we were impressed! Heard someone complaining in CC room recently about how sub standard the room was? I would be interested to see the change rooms this person had experienced.

We never stay for long though, but then again why would you want to?

No matter how nice they are, you’re sitting there and someone comes in with a problem that can clear a room ….

colourful sydney racing identity12:16 pm 13 Jan 09

In my experience, on weekends they are absolutely feral, peg the nose kind of feral

Much better than those at Belconnen Mall

johnboy said :

The newer toilets in the recent part of the building are quite palatial.

They may be palatial, but the users tend to leave them in a less than desirable state the vast majority of the time.

Sammy said :

I assume that those waterless urinals are flushed periodically by the cleaner

Defence was using special bactieria destroying ‘urnial cakes’ as a water saving ploy until some bright spark worked out that the chemicals in these environmentaly safe ‘cakes’ were eating throug the pipes in record time. It cost less to flush than replace the plumbing.

I don’t like baby change rooms. Last time I was feeding a baby in the Westfield Woden change room near Wendy’s, someone else had reported a private cubicle being locked for about 45 minutes, and thought maybe someone needed help… turns out the person in the cubicle didn’t even have any children with them, I’d rather not speculate on why someone would want a private cubicle for that long…

For nappy changes, I have a blanket in the car boot to lie baby on.
As for breastfeeding, there’s no way I’m giving my baby his lunch in a room that smells like a toilet. I do it in the cafe while I have my own lunch, all nice and civilised (and time-saving – gets both of us fed at once).

Has anyone else used the parents room at Babys R Us at the airport?

My god. There is no ventilation at all in the room and the stench of dirty nappies, coupled with the hideous fragrance that is constantly pumped into the room, makes it incredibly inhospitable.

I actually started getting a headache and felt dizzy while trapped in there waiting for my wife to breastfeed. In the end we had to open up the door and get some air in there for fear of passing out.

Surely a room like that must legally have some form of ventilation?

My favourite parents room so far is the one at Westfield Woden near Wendy’s. Sure it’s a bit clinical with the cool temperature and hard surfaces, but it’s clean, well ventilated and they have little private cubicles for breastfeeding. There’s also a microwave for reheating a TV dinner 🙂

I assume that those waterless urinals are flushed periodically by the cleaner

you don’t have to tell me. I’d better stop, otherwise I will be in it…

peterh said :

how do they keep the urinals clean?

no water urinals, what do they clean em with?

Baby Pooh. It’s corrosive.

peterh said :

how do they keep the urinals clean?

no water urinals, what do they clean em with?

Urine

how do they keep the urinals clean?

no water urinals, what do they clean em with?

The newer toilets in the recent part of the building are quite palatial.

sounds much better than the rest of the toilets in the Canberra Centre.

meh.

baby change rooms are somewhere i try to visit as quickly as possible. the main problem that all of these facilities have is the frequency of the nappy bins being emptied.

if they were changed at least 3 times a day, I would have a better experience. Every time I go to the change rooms in any of the shopping centres, I am greeted by the stench of an overflowing (uuurgh) nappy bin.

they spray deodorisers in these rooms, but it doesn’t overwhelm the smell. clean should include these bins.

Excellent, spacious and well lit. A lot of the new rooms are dimly lit for the feeding infants. Makes things dingy though.

I disagree. I find the table is much to small for someone of my height (6″ 5in).

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