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Who Changes Their Baby In the Cabin?! (Apparently Everyone)

When you settle into your airplane seat, is your first thought “I wonder if anyone has changed their baby’s diaper where I’m sitting?”

It might be now.

FlyerTalk member tuono07 popped into the Delta Air Lines forum to share this story on How NOT to change a diaper:

So fight 2152 from IAH to ATL and a cute kid is sitting in seat 1A with mom in seat 1B. My wife and I in seat 1C,D listining to the cute say as we sit pior to takoff ( No i no poop)
I can tell you by the smell he had and hey it happens. But right after the sestbelt sign comes off the mom proceeds to change the diaper in the seat 1A, not on the lavatory but on the seat. 2 flight atteddants walk by , look and say nothing.
It was over quicky but I sure wouldnt want to sit in that seat on the next flight.
Are attendants supposed to allow this?
Just asking

 

But while he was looking for answers on whether or not this was technically allowed in the cabin, what he got instead was a list of cringe-worthy stories about other passengers who’ve experienced the same thing:

Like this one

Didn’t a Chinese family put newspaper down on a seat a few years ago and tell their child to squat and poop there during a Delta flight? That seems a bit worse…

In South Africa a few years back a mom changed her baby’s poopy diaper on the tray table behind me, and of course the smell in our row was absolutely horrible.

We found that story about the Delta flight here (sorry).

And this one:

Years ago on an Alaska Airlines flight, a woman changed her baby’s poopy diaper on the tray table right next to me. Both gross and insanitary. I decided that, being Alaska Airlines, maybe she lived out in the tundra and didn’t know any better. She looked kinda woodsy.

And this one:

I was on a flight in China a few years ago when the family had their baby poop in a plastic bag, then place it under the seat in front of them (mine). Called the FA over, she took care of it but said it wasn’t the first time.

And this parental advice:

Nearly a lifetime ago, taking my six month son on a flight from Dallas to Philadelphia, I learned two important lessons. The second lesson, packing only two diapers on carryon, may not be a wise decision as he saturated his diaper in the airport bar, followed by filling the two spares with rather toxic loads shortly after takeoff. Fortunately, the flight attendant, actually a stewardess at that time, felt so compelled to rescue my young son from such an obviously incompetent father, took him from me, and aided by an elderly women next to me, they marched into first class, commandeered a linen napkin, and created a fine diaper substitute. I have no idea if they used an open seat, a tray table, the rest room or the pantry, but the kid seemed happy. 

By the way, the first lesson I learned, other than a puppy, there is nothing that attracts young women in an airport bar more than a father traveling alone with a six month old baby.

 

For more diaper stories (or to share your own) head to the FlyerTalk forum here.

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bluemeansgo April 27, 2018

My wife (pre-motherhood) was travelling via Hong Kong and was sat next to a Chinese mom who not only changed the baby in front of her, but used my wife as a tray for the dangling legs. She was not impressed... when relating the story to Chinese friends they replied... "sigh... mainlanders" I have sympathy for parents who have screaming kids and never make a fuss, but changing a diaper should be done in the lavatory, not at your seat.

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snic April 27, 2018

Some planes don't have changing tables in the lavs. Where, then, is one to change a baby if not the cabin? If you don't like it, take it up with the airline. Tell them you don't appreciate the lack of changing tables in the bathrooms.

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SeatOfMyPants April 27, 2018

Been flying with my kids since they were weeks old. Never changed them anywhere but the lav, never ran out of diapers or clothes or food. Fail to plan, plan to fail.