Dad Calls Out Lack of Changing Tables

Pee-ew! Diaper-changing tables aren't mandatory in men's restrooms — and this dad is calling for change.

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00:00Why is it that we have to go to the extra mile when we can just have that table in our

00:09own comforts of our own selves?

00:21I grab my son, grab the diaper bag and I point to my 12 year old son Isaiah and say, let's

00:26go diaper assistant.

00:27I got him a perfectly performed squat that I perfected and threw Liam over my lap and

00:34just began to change him.

00:35Not knowing that my 12 year old was taking photos at the time, that's one of many techniques

00:39I do have, the squat.

00:40And I laugh about it all the time.

00:41I say, you know, I'll wake up in the morning and do squats to get my legs ready for the

00:46next diaper change.

00:48But that was just one day.

00:49There was many times I just laid him on the floor with dirty clothes.

00:53I'll take some dirty clothes out of his diaper and just lay it on the floor and lay him on

00:55top of it.

00:56There was times I even laid him actually on the top of a diaper.

01:02And that's when it dawned on me, you know, why isn't there more changing tables and bathrooms?

01:06It's routine.

01:07If you look at the picture of my son, he is comfortable.

01:11He already knows what's about to happen.

01:20Father saying that we salute you and this is a struggle that we have to go to.

01:25A mother saying, you know, about time as father speaking up so it can bring an awareness

01:30to my father or, you know, my husband or my brother who has, who's dealing with the same

01:35situations.

01:36We just need to have that moment where we can say, you know what, we feel like it's

01:41equitable and fair for us to be a father when it comes to our children.

01:55It's a matter of just opening your eyes to it.

02:03Society has this thing where there aren't fathers that really exist or we do exist,

02:08but we're not really hands on for our children.

02:10And we just have to change that fathers are here to just work and provide.

02:14I come from a group of friends.

02:16We're all fathers.

02:17We are providers.

02:18We are caretakers.

02:20We are diaper changers.

02:22We are the guys that stay up in the middle of the night that hold bottles and warm bottles

02:26and give them to somebody.

02:27We are those guys.

02:28The path of law.

02:29I don't know if that's even possible.

02:30The path of law to say, hey, this is something we need to do.

02:33We are asking for a changing table and that's all we need.