Picture this: you’re out with your baby, running a few errands here and there when you realise it’s time for a nappy change.
Luckily, there’s a public change room close by, so you lay your child down and suddenly they begin to cry.
Being too young to speak, you assume they’re tired or hungry and continue to change the nappy. It’s only when you pick your child up you realise the true reason for their tears — your baby had been lying on pins which left holes in their back.
Wait, what?
This was the reality for a mum in the UK.
Hayley Turner has posted a word of warning to fellow mothers on Facebook, after her infant son was pricked with pins on a public changing mat.
The Facebook post, which has been shared over 100,000 times, details how her son Samuel started to cry when she laid him on a public changing mat.
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"I dismissed it as him being tired, cold and grumpy so I changed him as quickly as possible so I could give him a cuddle and calm him down," Hayley wrote.
We can only imagine Hayley's horror when she realised what had really happened.
"It turns out some low life scum thought it would be 'fun' to deliberately put drawing pins in the bottom of the changing mat," she said.
"He now looks like a pin cushion with five holes in total! Angry doesn't even cover it."
Hayley hopes her story will encourage mums to check their changing mats in the future.
Top Comments
I've had 3 babies and never once used a public change table....YUK....pram works just as well and least you know where it's been!!!
I didn't always have a pram with a toddler, though, so I would cover the top of the change table with a rubber mat of my own and a disposable paper change mat over that.
My rubber mat at least would have prevented the pins from sticking into Bubs...!
What a horrible thing for someone to do!
Hardly what I would call horribly injured. That's the problem with public amenities, you don't know what kind of public uses (or abuses) them. The back seat of the car is a good alternative.
Um, sure, it wouldn't have hurt like Hell to be forced to lie with 5 pins sticking into him for several minutes while his Mum changed his nappy... Not to mention the chance of infection! having my baby injured by being stuck with pins would be pretty 'horrible', if you ask me...!
Yep, the usual blame the victim comment. Seriously, go away.
I do not think you understand the point LMP was making and it has nothing to do with victim blaming. My longer comment hours before yours was not published, so I'm trying again.