To bring baby in carseat to evening cinema showing?

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Our local cinema is a fab arty type one that has sofas/food bought to you during film etc. They allow babies under 1 in as long as you keep them quiet. Pretty certain DD would stay fast asleep in carseat for the duration as she likes noise to sleep and is fast asleep by then usually (8pm). Moment she so much as whimpered Id have her out on the boob (under blanket). But, can well imagine we would get some serious evils from other people on the way into the film if not shooting glances at us throughout...what do you think? Shell out £30 for babysitter or take advantage of the cinemas policy?

I'm not sure if I would do it myself but I think as long as your considerate and stop crying very quickly by feeding or going out if you have to then I think people would forget your even there:)
Enjoy your self xx

I wouldn't take a baby to a performance or venue where it's clearly aimed at adults only and I wish more parents could be considerate to this, some spaces should be without children

Recently went to an event with loads of food stalls. 3 families with babies who looked under 6 months - all of them screaming their heads off because of the smoke, heat, noise of people talking and boozing and the music blasting. It's distressing for the babies and annoying for everyone else

Glad you've decided not to do it op.
I have 3 children and i work in childcare, so i'm always surrounded by children so if i've saved up for a rare adult treat to the cinema my heart would sink if i baby were brought in. As a parent you can not guarantee they will be silent and still throughout, and if they aren't what you consider dealing with the disturbance quickly will seem like a lifetime to others there. No i, and the majority of people, probably wouldn't say anything to you and you'd be non the wiser that you'd spoiled lots of people's night out, but you would have.
I regularly take the kids to children's showings where they can all rustle, sniff and fidget to their hearts content. It's a parnets lot, you chose to have them you you must chose to accept the sacrifices that go with it.

I mean you can do whatever you want, but you should be prepared for people's looks of dismay etc when they see you enter their screen. They aren't paying to go to evening/late night showings for a baby to interrupt their film. You need to be prepared to whisk her out of the screen as soon as she starts to make noise (if she does of course) and have to be prepared to miss part of the film because of it. It's not fair to the other cinemagoers to have to pay to not be able to hear the film because of your baby. Ultimately it depends on how confident you are that she will stay asleep, and how happy you are with the possibility that you'll waste money (missing some of the film because of having to take her out). Also bear in mind that you exiting and entering the cinema would also cause distractions and you might find that once you'd left you wouldn't be allowed in to minimise disruption to other people - especially in an evening showing specifically for adults, where it is expected that everyone is silent and don't have to be up and down multiple times in 2 hours to go to the loo etc. You may find you have more of a relaxing evening if you can find a babysitter/family member or friend to watch her so you don't have to worry about it and can just settle in and watch the film, or else go to a baby screening so you don't have to worry about disturbing anyone because everyone else will have children and people will be expecting a touch more noise/movement.

Additionally (and not from the perspective of other cinemagoers), the film will most likely be quite loud for her little ears and may scare her/hurt her ears. And it's pretty late anyway for a baby to not be in bed. It's probs not a good idea for anyone involved really (you, baby or others in the cinema).

I would also by ringing ahead etc check with cinema staff if a baby under 1 would generally be ok eg at night. If they say no then you stay away.

I would wonder in some cinemas that apart from the noise levels etc you also get louder than usual patrons (yes even in art house type cinemas) who would maybe disturb the baby more than usual eg wake it up etc.

I seriously doubt you'd get kindness for breastfeeding in public (even if under blanket) to soothe baby if you were going to a late night viewing... Like some others say some parents have hired a babysitter for this very reason to escape their own baby and wouldn't appreciate being reminded of more babies (of course others are generally less tolerant of babies who aren't their own offspring).

It's not the issue of the other viewers discomfort that's most concerning, but that of your babies back bent in its car seat for unnecessary hours. Babies backs are suffering long term deformations by being kept in them longer than necessary for perental convenience

I wouldn't mind at all if a baby was at the cinema, however, I wouldn't feel confident enough to take my own there. It won't be a relaxing evening if you're worried your baby will annoy/disturb other people.

I took DS3 to 'see' Skyfall at 12 weeks old - he just snuggled on my lap and either fed or slept through the whole thing - our 2 older DS's hardly noticed he was there, and they were sat right next to us!!

Our local cinema does a baby club on Friday mornings. Cheap tickets to see the current blockbuster that you can only see with a baby under 1. We went loads and my daughter always fed and then slept through it. No one cares if they cry because you are all in the same boat!

All these people talking about the dangers of being in a car seat for the duration of a film- don't you ever drive anywhere more than half an hour away?

I don't think it's a good idea. To the person who called child free hotels etc creepy and self important - how is it any of these things?

I think if you want to go and see a film in a guaranteed child free enviroment no matter what the time then you need to go to one that does not have a we allow under 1's policy.

It's a given that some under 1's will be attending if the venue encourages such a thing.

I would. As you say, it's cinema policy and you can pacify her quite quickly should you need to.