Mums with Prams parking etiquette

*Hides the fact that she just parked in one of the baby parks at P&S*

I think the time has come that I can no longer park in the baby parks.

(Altho I often carry Hannah through car parks as I don't trust her+cars... and carrying her from the furtherest park away makes my arms weaken at the thought!)

That P's me off too Paws! and if I wasn't so polite I'd tell them so too!

In the whole 4 months I've had Caitlin I've only managed a "Parents with prams" spot once, and regularly see heaps of Parents with big kids use them. I've even seen a lady and her (at least)5 year old get into a car that was parked there whilst the guy was waiting for them in the car!

Edited by Toni_akl

I have to admit that I have used the ones at the warehouse with Andrew. But if you have ever seen that carpark you would understand, it is horrible and with me being pregnant and having Andrew with me I feel I can use them. My DH was responsible for making the PN warehouse change their carparks from "mother and child" to the pic of a pram. He told them that not just mothers go shopping with children. I would be a little put out if someone with a toddler used the park, but being so close to xmas people think any carpark is fine for them.

I don't park in them anymore. Don't think I can get away with it now that Ella is almost 2 and a half. If I was a few months pregnant and had a toddler too, then yes, I would park there.

One time when Ella was younger at P&S some guy in a flash car drove up and pulled into a pram park just before we got there. I was driving but DP leaned on the horn until he got back in his car and reversed out of it lol.

I have to admit to using disabled parks *very rarely* - I usually just park and wait in the car - but it's only one place I use them, right near DP's work - as all the other spaces are full and if I'm picking him up after work I have to run in to get him.. as he never hears his phone when I text.

Oh yeah I managed fine...I also don't mean to sound like I don't think they have any right to park there so I hope I don't sound too much like a narky cow! (sorry to mums with toddlers if I do!! )

However...to that young couple who parked in the one we had just vacated the other week and who had NO kids....shame on you! *waggles finger*

I get so mad here as they have heaps of mum & bubs carparks at our local supermarket (about 15 right outside the door) and you can guarantee that half the cars in those parks are either old people or young sinlge men. I have just started using them again now as I'm exhausted and not nearly as community concious in my ill state- I stopped once DD got more independent but I guess some people just firgure they're for mothers with small children and first in first served.

I get annoyed with old people using the mums with babies carparks, had a run in with an old guy once when i decided to wait for a park, he shook his head and said no you cant have the park so I pointed out it was a park for babies and he tried to tell me that his daughter and her baby were coming out of the shop at any moment so i told him I would wait, he said no i couldnt so that made me even more determined to wait (car park was chocker) but he put his groceries away and got is wife in the car and drove off within about a minute, no sign of his daughter and her baby!!!
But I must admit even before Addison i still used the babies car parks. Its to dangerous to let Kobe walk through car parks and he is to heavy to carry so Im going to park as close to the door or a walk way as i can. I think from about 3-4 years when they are less likely to run off on you then i would stop using them.

I think if you still need a stroller then those parks are fair game ...
Botany does tow if no car seat in the car! Guess no car seat means no kid so they are totally justified in that!!
What i would like to see more of is the expectant parent parking - we have like five at countdown botany - and i am going to start using it now i am showing and waddling! But botany only has parents with prams parks no expectant parents ones so i wont chance those at all.
MUm and grandma had disabled park sticker...amazing how many people use them without one! Trying to get a 90 year old of a car with wheelchair in any other park is impossible so no i dont agree with even parking in those for a minute now!!!

my2angels wrote: But I must admit even before Addison i still used the babies car parks. Its to dangerous to let Kobe walk through car parks and he is to heavy to carry so Im going to park as close to the door or a walk way as i can. I think from about 3-4 years when they are less likely to run off on you then i would stop using them.

Hehe - yeah, personally I'd rather be carrying a massive nappy bag and hauling a buggy out than walking from the otherside of the carpark with a 14 kg toddler (and also a baby bag - these little mongrels are still pretty damn unpredictable) who is also trying to launch herself out of my arms to escape.

Nope not pregnant...

I just want to say that I'm not suggesting they are any less deserving of the car park but simply if it was me and I had a child who needed minimal help getting out and I only had an umbrella stoller I would just use a normal park....but that's just me.

I guess I was also kind of wondering what others would do/thought.