San Antonio City Council says men’s, women’s public bathrooms must have baby changing stations
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A selection of baby changing and sleeping mats containing high levels of Chlorinated Tris are seen at the Center for Environmental Health’s offices in Oakland, CA Wednesday December 5th, 2012. The Center for Environmental Health, a local watchdog group, announced Thursday it is suing Walmart, Babies ‘R’ Us, Target and other major national retailers for selling foam-filled baby and child care products with high levels of a known carcinogen. TDCPP, or chlorinated Tris.
A selection of baby changing and sleeping mats containing high levels of Chlorinated Tris are seen at the Center for Environmental Health’s offices in Oakland, CA Wednesday December 5th, 2012. The Center for
Photo: Michael Short, Special To The Chronicle / Special To The Chronicle
A selection of baby changing and sleeping mats containing high levels of Chlorinated Tris are seen at the Center for Environmental Health’s offices in Oakland, CA Wednesday December 5th, 2012. The Center for Environmental Health, a local watchdog group, announced Thursday it is suing Walmart, Babies ‘R’ Us, Target and other major national retailers for selling foam-filled baby and child care products with high levels of a known carcinogen. TDCPP, or chlorinated Tris.
A selection of baby changing and sleeping mats containing high levels of Chlorinated Tris are seen at the Center for Environmental Health’s offices in Oakland, CA Wednesday December 5th, 2012. The Center for
Photo: Michael Short, Special To The Chronicle / Special To The Chronicle
It’s time to change the baby.
A parent rushes to the bathroom with their newborn, whose diaper is uncomfortably full and dirty.
They walk in to the restroom, juggling their upset baby and the diaper bag, only to find that to their horror … there is no changing station.
It’s a situation many parents have found themselves in, but now it is changing.
The San Antonio City Council unanimously approved an ordinance Thursday that requires all publicly available restrooms, such as those in city-owned buildings, hotels and restaurants, to have baby changing stations.
And get this — not just in the women’s restrooms, but in the men’s too.
“All of you have driven through parking lots and seen that poor guy, in the back of his truck or the back of the van, changing a baby,” said Councilman Manny Peláez, who proposed the idea last year. “That’s only because whatever restaurant, hotel or business he was in didn’t have a baby changing station in that restroom.”
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