As a new mother, Zhou Zhijun finally realized how necessary a practical and warm mother and baby room is for mothers who take their babies out. It can greatly alleviate the anxiety caused by things such as changing diapers and breastfeeding when going out to eat and buy.
Therefore, Zhou Zhijun visited 12 large shopping malls in Shanghai to find the top stream of the mother and baby room in Shanghai shopping malls!
■ The shopping mall marked red is a new shopping mall in 2021, and the blue shopping mall is opened in previous years
Of the 12 shopping malls in Shanghai that Zhou Zhijun evaluated this time, 8 of them are newly opened in 2021, and 4 are opened in previous years, but the mother and baby facilities are well received on social networking sites.
What does a good mother and baby room look at?
According to the use experience, Zhou Zhijun believes that whether a mother and baby room is qualified and excellent depends on the "performance" of the following 5 aspects:
1. Whether the guidelines are clear.
Is it easy to find a mother and baby room in a mall? Is it inconvenient for the party to enter?
2. How is the overall environment.
Is the mother and baby room crowded? Is there a family waiting area? Is it clean and tidy?
3. Whether the facilities are well equipped.
Are there any common items for babies such as diaper tables, water dispensers, milk warmers, and diapers that are not wet?
4. Whether the design of the moving wire is reasonable.
Is it convenient to change diapers in the mother and baby room? Are the nursing rooms and toilets separate?
5. Whether the privacy is good.
Is there a separate and undisturbed nursing room?
According to these standards, Zhou Zhijun scored the mother and baby rooms of 12 shopping malls one by one and spoke through the data. We found that the biggest difference between the mother and baby rooms in different shopping malls is the common baby supplies.
As can be seen from the hooking situation, Grand Gateway Plaza 66, MixC and Daning Jiuguang Department Store are equipped with the most complete supplies and facilities.
Zhou Zhijun quantified the situation of commonly used supplies for babies, each "√" calculated 2 points, calculated the score of 12 shopping mall mother and baby room equipment, and then quantified other dimensions with scores, you can see the score of 12 shopping mall mother and baby rooms
According to the order of scoring from high to the end, in the end, Zhou Zhijun found the "top stream" in the mother and baby rooms of the 12 shopping malls visited this time.
Of course, our original intention is not to let the malls "compare" with each other, but in this process, to find a most humane template for the mother and baby room - the best mother and baby room in the magic city, what should it look like?
In fact, after personal evaluation and cross-comparison, we also found the "reference answer".
An excellent mother and baby room should meet the following conditions.
Clear enough guidance
The shopping malls where Zhou Zhijun goes are marked on the floor signs, there are mother and baby rooms on the first few floors, and many shopping malls also have electronic navigation systems, and it is relatively simple to find the location of the mother and baby rooms.
Of course, even if the mall has guidance, Zhou Zhijun also has the experience of "hitting a wall": although the first floor of the basement of the Lilac International Business Center is marked with a mother and baby room, when you walk in, you find that it is a barrier-free toilet, not a mother and baby room.
In contrast, the guidelines for the mother and baby room in the MixC can be said to be very "simple and rude" - a large poster, the three words "mother and baby room" are written in a big way, plus the direction sign, and the people who see it say: Got it!
Enough comfortable waiting area for family
Many times, the family's little baby going out is often the whole family, but the space in the mother and baby room is limited, often the mother brings the baby in, the change of diapers is not wet, feeding this set down, it also takes at least 20 minutes, sometimes even close to 1 hour, at this time, the comfortable family waiting area is very necessary.
Zhou Zhijun found that in addition to the Lilac International Business Center, almost all shopping malls have benches set up outside the mother and baby outdoors, which can be used for families to sit and wait.
Thoughtful diaper design
The mother taking the baby into the mother and baby room is nothing more than two things: changing diapers and breastfeeding.
The diaper table is also the standard of the mother and baby room, but the design of different shopping malls can be glimpsed to the degree of care.
Xingye Taikoo Hui's diaper table, the edge is prominent, higher than the operating table, but there is no protection around, not only the feet are suspended outside when changing the baby's diapers, if it is a more active baby, it may roll down, more dangerous, not very friendly.
In addition, when the baby lies facing a dazzling light strip, there is a risk of injury to the eye.
In contrast, the diaper table design of Daning Jiuguang Department Store can become a template.
There are soft cushions of leather, guardrails high enough on three sides to prevent babies from falling, and diaper tables placed vertically to facilitate the operation of changing diapers.
There is a separate lactation room
Looking at the breastfeeding experience in the mother and baby rooms of 12 shopping malls, it can be divided into 3 levels:
Poor experience: mother and baby room and parent-child bathroom integration
The Mother and Baby Room of Lilac International Business Center is a design of a family bathroom and a mother and baby room.
There are also large and small toilets, large and small sinks in the mother and baby room, and although there are special garbage cans for diapers and sofa chairs with good comfort, there is still a smell to some extent, and sometimes men and women enter here.
For mothers and babies who are sensitive to odors or have cleanliness, such a mother and baby room is not very friendly.
Space independent, but not suitable for multiple people
A separate uninterrupted lactation room, Thoughtful Jun thinks it is necessary!
Like Grand Gateway Plaza 66 and the mother and baby room of IAPM Mall, it is a small single room that can lock the door, change diapers, and breastfeeding can be guaranteed to be undisturbed.
In contrast, the stand-alone mother-and-baby room experience is much better.
However, such a single room can only be used by one person at a time, but many times it is only necessary to change the baby's diapers and not wet, but it occupies the entire mother and baby room.
Experience well and breastfeeding and changing diapers do not interfere with each other
The mother and baby rooms on the 6th and 7th floors of the Ruihong Tiandi Sun Palace have a large space and can accommodate 2 small babies at the same time to change diapers, but the nursing room is a separate compartment that can be locked, and privacy is also guaranteed.
■ Ruihong Tiandi Sun Palace 6th floor mother and baby room, there are two compartments as a lactation room
The mother and baby room of Daning Jiuguang Department Store, the nursing room compartment is separated by a curtain, although it can also ensure privacy, but it is not as secure as the lockable door.
■ The mother and baby room of Daning Jiuguang Department Store has a separate lactation compartment
Why emphasize separate compartments that can be locked?
Zhou Zhijun once had the experience of using the mother and baby room when he was using the mother and baby room, a pair of parents entered the mother and baby room together to change the baby's diapers, and the separate compartment that can be locked can be well avoided at this time to avoid embarrassment and use with confidence.
Enough complete baby supplies
Mother and baby room standard
In addition to the standard equipment of the mother and baby room such as diaper tables, sinks and sofas, whether to provide sanitary protective products such as disinfectant, wet paper towels, urine pads, as well as warm milk warmers, hot drinking water, diapers, buttock cream, anti-spillage breast pads, children's bibs... These essential supplies for baby washing and breastfeeding are also important standards to reflect the intimate degree of a mother and baby room.
Grand Gateway Plaza 66's Mother and Baby Room is the most well-equipped of the 12 shopping malls that Grand Gateway has visited.
Standard amenities include an air purifier, sink, hand sanitizer, diaper table, small warmer, sofa chair and a storage drawer.
The drawer contains baby lotion, baby wipes, children's bibs, diaper pads, anti-spilling breast pads and other maternal and child care products, which are easy to access.
The Mother and Baby Room has posted instructions for the use of the Mother and Baby Room, which also indicates that the mall provides free baby carriage rental service, and if necessary, you can go to the concierge desk on the first floor.
Baby cot, retractable seat
In the south block of the mall, there is a mother and baby room on the third floor to the fifth floor. The mother and baby room in the south block, which is slightly larger than the north block, is equipped with a scale and a baby cot in addition to the configuration of the north seat mother and baby room.
In Matsue Impression City, which has just opened, the wooden crib looks clean.
However, I believe that many mothers, like Zhou Zhijun, have hidden concerns about the hygiene of cribs in public places.
But there are also mothers who want to suck in the mother-and-baby room or mothers with two babies who need to find a place to put the baby down for a short time, and the retractable child seat of the EIApm is necessary.
Drink hot water
The fly in the ointment is that the mother and baby room of Grand Gateway Plaza 66 does not have drinking water, and if you want to brew milk powder with hot water, you need to contact the front desk by phone, and the front desk staff will help to go to the water dispenser in the security room or Starbucks to get hot water.
Daning Jiuguang Department Store's baby supplies are also very intimate. A small water dispenser.
More meticulous and intimate facilities
Baby Diapers also offer options of S-L sizes for babies of different ages.
It is worth mentioning that some mother and baby rooms are also equipped with independent wall-mounted air conditioners to ensure the temperature of the mother and baby rooms.
I believe that many people and Zhou Zhijun used to visit the mall, rarely pay attention to a small mother and baby room, but after comparing so many mother and baby rooms, Zhou Zhijun deeply felt that walking into a more ideal and more intimate design of the mother and baby room, for babies and mothers, can feel the great respect and care given by this society.
The Department of Maternal and Child Health of the National Health Commission also proposed in the breastfeeding promotion plan released at the end of November that by 2025, the coverage rate of maternal and infant facilities in public places will reach more than 80%, and there will often be mothers and babies staying, and the construction area of more than 10,000 square meters, or the daily passenger flow of more than 10,000 people in public places such as transportation hubs and commercial centers should establish independent mother and baby rooms with appropriate service functions, equipped with basic facilities, highlighting guidance signs, and strengthening daily management and maintenance.
Under the background of the three-child policy, the number of mother and baby rooms is popularized and the function is perfect, which is more urgent.
Zhou Zhijun sincerely hopes that there will be more and more mother-friendly spaces in the magic capital
Image source: Cartography/Rong Qingyu
Source: Thoughtful Shanghai