Baby Care Centers

Anyone traveling to Walt Disney World with young children should become familiar with the Baby Care Centers in each park. Whether your child is a newborn of 2 or 3 months or a toddler of 2 or 3 years, these facilities can make your vacation life easier.

Each of the four Disney Theme Parks has a Baby Care Center. These centers are designed to give mothers and their families a clean, quiet, comfortable place to retreat to take care of the littlest member of the family. Each BBC has about six large tables for changing diapers. They are lined with a large, clean sheet of paper. The tables are cleaned throughout the day as well. They are much easier to work on than the pull-down changing tables one finds in restrooms.

Each BABY CARE CENTER location has a kitchen area where bottles can be prepared, and they offer bottled water free of charge for mixing formula. You will find high chairs to feed your toddler too. If you have forgotten some supplies, you can purchase some baby basics such as diapers, wipes, formula, jarred baby food, infant medicines, pacifiers, onesies, bibs, and more. Each location is different, but basic needs will be covered.

If you are breast feeding your baby, you will appreciate the quiet and comfort of the nursing rooms. Each Baby Care Center has one. The room is closed off from the rest of the Baby Care Center. It is homey and welcoming. The room has several rocking chairs in which to relax and feed your baby.

And what is the rest of the family to do while you tend to Junior? The Baby Care Center has an area with toys and games for the kids to play while they wait. There is a TV showing Disney cartoons too.
Here is where you can find each of the Baby Care Centers at the Walt Disney World Resort:

Magic Kingdom® Park:
The Baby Care Center is next to The Crystal Palace restaurant on Main Street, U.S.A.

EPCOT:
The Baby Care Center is inside Future World's Odyssey Center.

Disney's Hollywood Studios™:
The Baby Care Center is in the Guest Services Building inside the Main Entrance.

Disney's Animal Kingdom® Theme Park:
The Baby Care Center is behind Creature Comforts in Discovery Island™.

Disney's Typhoon Lagoon Water Park:
There is no baby Care Center, but the restrooms do have baby changing stations.

Disney's Blizzard Beach Water Park:
There is no baby Care Center, but the restrooms do have baby changing stations.

Downtown Disney® area:
There is no Baby Care Center, but the restrooms do have baby changing stations.

Disneyland Part 1

Disneyland

How it all began ~ Part 1

As I prepared to write this piece I took time to research the initial idea of Disneyland, the plans and preparation that took place before it's opening on July 17, 1955 and the plans and preparations that still take place causing the Disneyland Resort to be a magical vacation destination for millions of visitors each year. I look forward to sharing with you what I've learned in my research and my 15+ visits to Disneyland

'To all who come to this happy place, Welcome...'

-Walt Disney

(Welcome speech-Opening Day-July 17, 1955) 

Disneyland was originally created from an idea that Walt had while spending time with his daughters each Sunday. He would watch his girls whirling on a beautiful carousel at a local park and imagine a place where children and their parents could enjoy a safe, clean entertaining experience together. He considered creating an amusement park adjoining his studio in Burbank with a train running around on a track around the park, a river, and a little Western street. Research was the key to Walt's success. He spent a lot time visiting other amusement parks around the country to learn about them-what worked and what didn't. He spoke to children to ask them what they liked? Walt met with his designers. Ideas were discussed, plans were drawn up and soon Walt realized that the land near the studio was not large enough to contain all of the dreams had for a family amusement park. He knew he needed a major piece of land since his research had helped to decide that his park wasn't going to be tiny. It was going to be big! More research; freeways, population growth, temperature differences. Ten possible sites were considered, three were preferred. In 1954, more than 160 acres covered in orange groves, was purchased in the sleepy town of Anaheim, California.

Building Walt's dream, Disneyland, continued to grow.

To be continued...