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lizzle 
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 Posted: 11 August 2006 at 4:45pm |
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Ladies - have to stress the AMZING parents rooms in Japan. first they have vending machines for milk, baby food, and even nappies. About seven microwaves. Sterilisers! nappy changing tables. cots for sleeping. and some even have baby nurses. and all have huge playrooms. Sigh!
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daikini
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Posted: 11 August 2006 at 4:48pm |
 Ohakune is only just large enough to have 2 sets of public toilets!
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jax
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Posted: 11 August 2006 at 6:16pm |
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I miss Japan ! I saw on BBC World last night (I think) that they are developing these badges for pregnant women to wear in Japan to say that 'I'm growing a baby in my womb' in order for them to get seats on public transport. Not as naff as you'd think though, you can get them in either blue or pink, and they had a cute cartoon baby on.
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Posted: 11 August 2006 at 6:42pm |
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Be a bit of a bugger if you got one in the wrong colour!
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lizzle
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Posted: 11 August 2006 at 8:47pm |
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When i was heavily heavily pregnant - and carrying a good luck charm for protection during child birth prominently - people would look the other way and not give their seat to me on really crowded trains and buses. Twice someone tried to - a lady with a baby on her front and toddler on her hip, and some woman who was about 100. I declined both times, so in all honesty Jax, i bet those badges won't work. Businessmen sit in the disabled seats on the train and PRETEND to be asleep so they don't have to get up. Grrr.
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jax
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Posted: 11 August 2006 at 9:07pm |
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Yeah, I thought it was a neat idea, but didn't know how effective it would be ! As much as I got bent over backwards for, the one real exception I found when I was in Japan, was people were really selfish about their seats on public transport. Bah. Mind you, half the time I could just get on a bicycle anyway...
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Sarah Beth
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Posted: 12 August 2006 at 8:04am |
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some people can be like that in NZ too, I was on a bus once, and blocked in as was by the window seat, a man got on with a todler and baby and not one person got up, I had to ask the person sitting beside me to move so I could get up for him.
My mum has been on a bus before where the driver has stopped and made someone get up for a pregnant women!
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Maya
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Posted: 12 August 2006 at 10:57am |
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For all the bad things people say about it, the London Underground wasn't actually too bad when we had to negotiate it with Maya in the buggy. I found people mostly got up and offered us seats, and at the stations there are no lifts (except the odd station) and yet people always offered to help lift the buggy up and down.
Not like in Sydney - I must have lugged that fat baby and her pram up and down th esteps at North Sydney Station a hundred times and only once did a guy stop to help and he was a Transit security guard so it's kind of his job.
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Posted: 12 August 2006 at 11:00am |
Go the bus driver! 
I am pro B/Feeding in public, but like everyone says, with discretion. I cant believe how people expect you to go to the toilets and feed, EW!! I am currently bottle feeding but did B/F both my kids for the first 3 months, however I never actually got to try B/Feeding in public, due to not getting out much, lol. I also cant believe the comparison to a man peeing in public, the two topics are competely different! breasts are first and foremost for the nourishment of infants, peeing on a pot plant isnt going to nourish it is it? I honestly cant believe public B/feeding is such an issue.
Oh also like to add that the Richmond mall ( in Richmond, just out of Nelson) has a GREAT parents room, it has 2 comfy chairs and a table, a microwave, kitchen sink, paper towels and a change table and a huge toilet so if you have a pushchair you can take it in with you and not be all cramped up. 
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Posted: 12 August 2006 at 11:24am |
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Oh yeah - another pet hate - toilets that don't fit prams. What are you supposed to do with bubs while you go to the toilet? You can't exactly leave them outside by themselves...
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