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Hanging Babies

20111020-132123.jpgOccasionally, I come across some silly parenting product or another. However, this one I actually think is useful. I also think it is impractical though.

It is a solution for those times when you are out with the baby and you need to use the privy. It happened to me a lot when Jupiter was a baby. I would be out getting groceries or running some errand and nature would call.

What do we do in this situation? Well, as a guy, during a stand up situation I could manage a baby in one hand and my equipment in the other. This does not really work for moms or sit down situations for dads though, so sometimes putting them on a blanket on the floor is all you can do.

The Babykeeper is meant to hang from the door to keep that child off the dirty floor an on the dirty door instead. Honestly, I would prefer the door, but the keeper seems way to big to fit into my already overflowing diaper bag, and certainly will not earn that space with the limited use it provides.

20111020-201528.jpgThere are solutions that the owner of the establishment can put in place that are similar. At our local children's museum they have a small safety chair attached to the wall in one of the bathroom stalls. It would be nice if everyone installed them, but that is a severely impractical expectation as I have not seen them anywhere else.

It seems that the most practical thing is to keep doing what I have been doing. The one handed method or the floor. Do you have any other solutions when you run into this situation?
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