Parking bays for pregnant women?

Originally Posted by Pierre

You're pregnant, not disabled.

More claptrap, and who will decide who is "heavily" pregnant????

Will women have to carry around a certificate with their due date on?????

They already do. It's called MAT1B, and its main purpose is to ensure they get free prescriptions and dental treatment. This proposed scheme would presumably work as a simple extension of that already well-tested system.

If you're that heavily pregant that you can't walk across the supermarket carpark, let alone walk around the supermarket itself, or you're that big you can't get in or out of the car - then maybe you shouldn't be out shopping.

God knows what the older generation think, my mum pregnant and with a toddler and a 6yr old would get the bus, and carry the weekly shop.

I suspect in that case that you don't have any kids, or at the very least that any children you do have were the result of blessedly straightforward pregnancies.

I really can't be bothered rebutting your ignorant nonsense at any length - all I will do is post a link that explains a particularly nasty late-pregnancy condition called Pubis Smphasis Dysfunction (or Pelvic Girdle Pain), and request that you read and understand the implications of it before spouting off any further on this subject.

Mrs T, incidentally, suffered with this during two of her three pregnancies, and in both cases for several months afterwards. And sometimes family life means you still have to do the shopping, even when it really, really hurts.

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Mrs T has offered to tie your ankles to a pair of HGVs, each of which is travelling in opposite directions, and then arrange for a donkey to kick you in the nads, the better to help you understand what PGP feels like.

Originally Posted by dev

The parent+kids spaces are usually wider to allow parents to put young kids in seats and in a normal space there isn't always room to do it without difficulty. I do however agree that there is no need to put them close to the shop.

If the spaces weren't the closest to the shop, I doubt people without kids would park in them as there would be no advantage. As someone has pointed out, if the child can't walk the distance from space to shop they aren't going to survive going around the shop either.

the reason why parent and toddler parking is so close to the entrance is to minimize the risk of toddlers getting run over by nutters who drive around carparks thinking that they are the only ones using it

and mrsT can use my realy big van if she wants and my wife says she will drive

and while the supermarkets are giving out special parking lets have some for vans ,some of the looks i get when i park up to go shopping you wouldn't believe

I missed out on the mother and children spaces,the nappy changing facilities and I've no doubt when I'm older I'll be fully mobile and will still have to park in the far flung corners of the parking lot.

By the time I'm no longer mobile I won't be able to drive anyway..

[budwieser]

Originally Posted by Chris

They already do. It's called MAT1B, and its main purpose is to ensure they get free prescriptions and dental treatment. This proposed scheme would presumably work as a simple extension of that already well-tested system.



I suspect in that case that you don't have any kids, or at the very least that any children you do have were the result of blessedly straightforward pregnancies.

I really can't be bothered rebutting your ignorant nonsense at any length - all I will do is post a link that explains a particularly nasty late-pregnancy condition called Pubis Smphasis Dysfunction (or Pelvic Girdle Pain), and request that you read and understand the implications of it before spouting off any further on this subject.

Mrs T, incidentally, suffered with this during two of her three pregnancies, and in both cases for several months afterwards. And sometimes family life means you still have to do the shopping, even when it really, really hurts.

---------- Post added at 17:20 ---------- Previous post was at 17:13 ----------

EDIT

Mrs T has offered to tie your ankles to a pair of HGVs, each of which is travelling in opposite directions, and then arrange for a donkey to kick you in the nads, the better to help you understand what PGP feels like.

" Mrs T has offered to tie your ankles to a pair of HGVs, each of which is travelling in opposite directions, and then arrange for a donkey to kick you in the nads, the better to help you understand what PGP feels like. "
PMSL Love that!

[Waldo Pepper]

I'm all for these bays as there is less chance of getting dents in my door when the mother let's little Chardonnay kick the door open.

[handyman]

Given how cramped the parking is and the contorsions I have to pull to get out of the car, I'm all for allowing pregnant women a little more room to open the door and get out safely. Those parking spots are the to be wider for access more than they are there to be closer to the store in my view.