A woman has taken to social media to share how she called out a new mum for her disgusting behaviour onboard her flight – and she says even the pilot took her side
A woman has been praised for speaking up after spotting a new mum changing her baby’s dirty nappy in her plane seat.
The 28-year-old explained how she was seated behind a couple with a baby on her flight – and was unable to drift off to sleep due to the infant’s crying.
But she kept her cool reminding herself it’s not the baby’s fault as “flights can be scary and stressful” for children. However, she couldn’t bite her tongue when she spotted the parents changing their child’s dirty nappy on the fold down tables at their seats – rather than taking the infant to the bathroom.
She said on Reddit: “I’m a really nauseous flyer, so I took a Dramamine ahead of time and did my best to get some sleep during the flight. This didn’t happen because of the baby’s crying, but oh well, I know flights are scary and stressful for infants and there was nothing anyone could do about that.
“What got to me was the couple changing their baby’s extremely stinky number two diaper right in the middle of their seats, using the mom’s food tray as a changing table. We were at the back of the plane right by the bathrooms, which I confirmed had baby changing tables when I had to go back there to throw up after the smell hit me.
“I didn’t say anything the first time, but the second time I heard them go into the diaper bag a couple hours later I asked if they could please go use the plane bathroom instead of exposing everyone on the plane to the smell.” With that, the mum started shouting at her for being so unreasonable, citing how difficult it is to travel with a small child.”
The woman added: “The flight attendant at the back of the plane agreed with me and asked them to only use the bathrooms to change their baby, plus a few minutes later the pilot made an announcement that all diaper changing needed to be done in the bathrooms, after which both parents looked extremely annoyed.
However, she can’t help but feel bad for speaking out against the mum’s behaviour, prompting her to ask Reddit users whether she’s in the wrong.
In response, one user said: “There are changing tables in the bathrooms. That’s what they are for. Thank God the maintenance crews disinfect between flights. The thought of eating/drinking off a tray table used as a changing table makes me want to hurl.”
While someone else added: “Basic rules of baby changing, don’t do it where people eat or where people are in close proximity. If you have a choice always use the changing tables.” A third user said: “Baby turds stink worse than regular ones. Exposing people in a closed metal tube thousands of feet in the air to that is criminal.”