Our daughter Mirabelle was born in March 2007 and two and a half months later, we packed up as a threesome to spend a summer in London. We had visited the city once before as a couple for a few days in May 2001, but were looking forward to getting to know it better.I didn't realize it until much later, but London is an extremely baby-friendly city. There are clean baby changing stations in nearly every McDonalds and Starbucks (which are ubiquitous) and fortunately you don't need to purchase something to use them. This was a stark contrast to Paris. A few weeks into our London summer, we took weekend trip. After finding numerous Starbucks and McDonalds with no baby changing stations, I started asking people on the street where I could "changer le bébé?" but no one had any suggestions. Had this never come up before? We finally found a Paris museum which had a wooden shelf in the bathroom that served the purpose. After that, we changed her outdoors in her stroller. I also didn't realize until later that the pre-crawling stage is a great time to travel with a baby. Our daughter was a dream on the...
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Our daughter Mirabelle was born in March 2007 and two and a half months later, we packed up as a threesome to spend a summer in London. We had visited the city once before as a couple for a few days in May 2001, but were looking forward to getting to know it better.I didn't realize it until much later, but London is an extremely baby-friendly city. There are clean baby changing stations in nearly every McDonalds and Starbucks (which are ubiquitous) and fortunately you don't need to purchase something to use them. This was a stark contrast to Paris. A few weeks into our London summer, we took weekend trip. After finding numerous Starbucks and McDonalds with no baby changing stations, I started asking people on the street where I could "changer le bébé?" but no one had any suggestions. Had this never come up before? We finally found a Paris museum which had a wooden shelf in the bathroom that served the purpose. After that, we changed her outdoors in her stroller. I also didn't realize until later that the pre-crawling stage is a great time to travel with a baby. Our daughter was a dream on the...
