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Thursday, July 17, 2003 - (see all news for this day)
change table - 09:11 AM
(filed under 'baby')
ever since i've been able to remember, every baby change table i've seen, or more specifically every plastic covered item which gets used by a baby, the pattern printed on it has been really unattractive. when i'd seen them in people's homes (since until now i'd not spent much time in baby shops) i always wondered if perhaps they'd been given the item, thus not being able to choose one with a nice pattern or design on it, or else they simply had exceedingly poor taste.
now, however, i understand. when choosing a change table from the baby shop yesterday, no matter what the design was, there were a few choices: ugly, really ugly, or absolutely atrocious. so it's not because people have bad taste, it's a matter of choosing the least ugly one available.
shroom helped me put it together last night (i ended up getting one on a sturdy frame with a bath & two shelves underneath it) & when i mentioned how i went about choosing the pattern, he said that he did kind of think that the one i'd chosen wasn't all that nice. i told him, "trust me, it was the least ugly one there."
the one shown on the link above was not available. it looks quite presentable. my choices were cartoon animal faces with their sounds written in words below them, which was quite cute but the colours were not so great, another one which must have been ugly enough for me to block it out of my memory completely, & the one which i chose, which is called 'honeybear' & contains various shades of light brown & cream. not really my taste, but as i said, the least ugly of all of them. oh well, i don't think rudegere will care so much.
You know, I think the one I had had a flower pattern... not unlike the web page background I'm looking at now! It was basically a chest of drawers with a change table top on it, which got discarded when kid#2 no longer required it.
mine was whatever I happened to put her on - the couch, the bed, the table... they all worked
I agree with melanie, after a while of doing everything by the book, you will learn to do everything in a more convenient way. I hardly used my change table except that it had a baby bath under the lid, so I only used it when bathing.
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Yeah, rudi won't mind! and a lot of people like to put towels over the vinyl anyway, just to make it a bit more comfortable and less cold for baby to lie one.