AIBU to take 3mo to cinema with the dc's?

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Please don't slate me :) I'm just wondering if this would be wrong? She is a v good baby rarely cries unless tired or starving! I'm bfeeding so can't leave her with anyone she won't take a bottle of formula. I have an 8 an 4 yr old on the half term who desperately want to go and watch a kids film? Do I think it would be horrendous if I take bubbs too? If she cries I will slip out if we sit at the front I can have a quick escape ?

Can't wait to put her 3d glasses on

Joke btw

3 plus, the baby is likely to eb the quietest child in there. Enjoy your day out.

It's only the fecking cinema! Not something you need a "birthright" for. Really amused at the extremely po-faced responses. I think there are better things to sneer at than a parent trying to do something nice for her children.

Yes your baby is likely to be quiet.

And mildly deafened by the insane need of cinemas to blast out noise that could flatten grass and scare a flock of geese.

I took 4 month old DS to see Brave with older DD and DS. We sat at the front so if he made a fuss I could leave easily but I BF him through the whole film and it was not a problem.

It's half term today so if you go and see a kids film there will be loads of kids in there so hardly a quiet environment!

Thanks ladies you have all been very positive

It's only the fecking cinema! Not something you need a "birthright" for. Really amused at the extremely po-faced responses. I think there are better things to sneer at than a parent trying to do something nice for her children.

all of this I did at not a birth right the op is obviously acting a little entitled OP go to the pictures have a nice time and if it all goes pear shaped don't go again,

Yes noise worries me a bit I'm hoping it won't be top loud unless they are blowing up the animals in Madagascar??

CailinDana- I'm not sneering, but although a trip to the cinema is nice, it's not the end of the world if your Mum can't take you because she's just had a baby.

And , although I sound like a repetitive old woman with an ear trumpet, I took my baby once and once only- the noise vibrated right through his whole body. I decided it was much too loud and took him again when he was around two.

People who take babies to the cinema are inconsiderate and entitled. It's not cheap and I don't pay to listen to a baby screaming and crying (and yes there's always the potential this will happen, however good your baby normally is). The general hubbub of kids talking or eating is very different to a baby's shrieks.

OP- the film we saw was g-Force (about Guinea Pigs) and it was deafening.

LucieMay y then in that case do they allow babes in arms?

GForce is army gineau pigs tho right? Lol

Yes I am worried about noise too

If it is a children's film then yes, baby comes too. To be honest the most disruption in my local cinema comes from adolescents in groups and adults. I'd feed the baby as the sound and music comes on to minimise any reaction to the noise.

I imagine they allow it for financial reasons.

All the points about being 'entitled'. If it's a quiet baby, then it will most likely be quieter than most young children in the screening. And if it's not, she can step outside.

I just don't get this world view. She isn't taking the baby to hear a concerto. It's a freakin kids film. Just like it isn't entitled to hope someone will hold a heavy door for you if you are juggling a buggy, or someone will offer you a seat if you are preggers. These are acts of common courtesy. And the OP is clear she won't impact on anyone anymore than the noise from any other child. Jeez. Where did all this entitlement nonsense come from. Surely we all know how hard it is to parent, how tricky it is to accommodate varying children's needs. Why don't we just cut each other some slack.

DD worked in a cinema during university. Kids were never usually a problem to her or other patrons, just their appallingly behaved parents and groups of friends. When you have an apparently well spoken middle class in appearance man threaten to 'come back and wait for you' after the close because the chip and pin machine is slower then usual then a cat's bum faced response to the OP's modest request is pretty petty.

And that was one of many many examples of charmless behaviour by adults....

Normally I would ay YABU, but given that she is a quiet baby and that you are happy to slip out, I will grant you special permission to attend the cinema thsi half term. YANBU.

Go. Enjoy. Stop stressing. Special occasion you are not going to be doing it every week.

Ok we are going will update u all when we get back late afternoon

It's only the fecking cinema! Not something you need a "birthright" for

I'm just saying that you can always (shock, horror) say no to a film and that children won't suffer. You don't HAVE to take a newborn to a very loud cinema just because an older child wants to see a film.

I know I will probably get a pitchfork in the buttock for saying that.

I've been in a cinema and not realised that there was a baby there before now, about 3 rows in front of us! She (i think) must have slept straight through it. The behaviour of some of the adults on the other hand made me stabby. Do they not realise how hard it is to teach young children to be quiet in certain situations - like when people are watching a film- when supposed adults are talking all the way through the bloody film?
Thing is about that you wouldn't it foster resentment of the baby if Mum had to say "no we can't because..." everytime they wanted to do something? No pitchfork here, I do see your point but if a compromise can be reached like a mum & baby or child screening then surely it works all round?

I wouldn't for the noise factor alone. Children's films can often reach close to the Health and Safety limit of 80 decibels, it's far too loud for a tiny baby's ears.