To think FFS re sad faced breast feeding mums in the Daily Fail?

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Single-mother, 33, thrown out of West End show for breast feeding

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Fuck off ... And fuck off some more! Ear defenders or not this WAS NOT the place for your offspring! Aggggh!!!

I've just read that story and come straight here to find the thread!

Silly woman - this is clearly not about breastfeeding. I've just got back from the theatre tonight and I would have been fuming if there had been a baby anywhere near me. I've paid for a babysitter to escape my own children for the evening!

I ebf but I wouldn't even think about taking my 6 month old to a theatre.
One because it's very likely she would cry and disturb others, two because I wouldn't enjoy the experience of a crying squirming baby and three my baby wouldn't enjoy not being able to move around freely.

I have been really shocked in recent years by a dramatic increase in irresponsible parenting at clearly adults/ older children only environments.

I too thought FFS at this West End tickets are nearly £100 per head - to hear a baby cry through it or shout out distractingly - no thank you.

YANBU OP

Funny lots of people on here saying it's out of order, yet on the cinema thread a LOT of people said they'd take a baby to an adult evening screening "it won't bother anyone" "it'll be asleep" "i'd do it" etc

It's the same thing. You cannot expect a baby to stay silent and cannot guarantee you won't provide ANY distraction/disruption

I can't breastfeed, and I still wouldn't take my baby to a West End performance. At £80 or so a throw, I'd want to concentrate on the thing!

this woman is pathetic, taking legal action ? ffs.

A cinema ticket costs £8. If you spoil it for other people, it's annoying. But it's not really on the same level as ruining the night for people who've spent several hundred quid on tickets, probably many also coughed up more for meals, accommodation and transport to London, and a good number will be celebrating very special occasions.

Plus there are performers actually there giving their performance in person being massively disrespected by having it ruined for the sake of one patron.

Plus even at the cinema you'd expect the parent to leave if it was disruptive.

Who on EARTH takes a baby to a punk rock show?

This has nothing to do with breastfeeding at all - the complaint was hat the baby was being distracting. By trying to claim this is about breastfeeding and not just her being a fucking idiot she's trying to make it headline grabby.

She says herself that the baby was "bopping around" and repeatedly taking off its ear defenders and waving them around. That is going to be distracting and if I had paid £80 a ticket I would be pissed off too! FFS, who takes a baby to the Green Day musical?! Or any West End show, for that matter....

If a baby sat quietly through a theatre show that would just be luck.

The chances are that at some point the baby will make its presence known.

wow DeathStare, I kind of understand the point you are trying to make (even if I totally disagree with you), but you imply that a disable person is distracting by just being there?

just wow

She sounds self important and entitled. What makes her different from anybody else. Of course people should not feed their baby in the pool whether it's bf or fornula, it can contaminate the water and the pool will need to close. If baby needs feeding, get out the pool and feed outside the pool. Why for the life of me would you want to feed in a pool.

Sorry two different replies there.

That show is pretty loud (seen it three times) so the poor baby must actually have quite pretty scared at times (thankfully it'd be too young to get all the sex/drugs and swearing :)). It's a small venue, not like some of the big West End theatres, and if you're near the front the performers are right on top of you - no orchestra pit or anything.

But there are also some very quiet moments when someone sings alone/acoustic and they would be ruined if a baby started kicking off (or by any other kind of unwelcome interruption).

I think it's really selfish - to the baby, to the other people who've paid a lot of money for their tickets, and to the brilliant performers - to take a baby to a show like this and it's clear from the theatre's response that bfing had nothing to do with it.

I bet in a couple of years time she'll be taking her kid to the cinema and letting it talk/kick seats etc throughout the film then being outraged if anyone complains.

As someone who works in theatre I say bring the babies. It is the place for them. They can go to the pub, or a restaurant, or the movies. Yes a crying baby should be taken out but they should be allowed in . I'd much rather a baby than the mobile phones and heavy perfume

This is so not about BFing!

The theatre compromised with her that she would take her baby out, if it was causing a disruption. It was, but she didn't do as she had agreed, and had to be asked again to take the baby out.

The DM have taken this up, as their readers will love to tut about the unreasonableness of BFing mothers.

FWIW, I BF 3 DC for over a year each, so at least 3 years of BFing in public. I never had a negative reaction, but had many, many positive ones. I know that's just one person's experience, but then, so is this woman's.

If she was let in with the baby then she was entitled to be there.

Breastfeeding in public is legal, and asking someone to leave because they are breastfeeding is illegal.

You can't cloak it as 'distracting' or 'unhygienic' or use any other phrase or clause designed to inhibit breastfeeding and discourage women from bringing breastfeeding babies out with them.

If boobs distract you then grow up and realise boobs are not always about sex, and try really hard to look the other way.

If babies distract you then in similar vein, grow up.

The management allowed this baby to enter the theatre.

I agree with LaurieFairyCakes here.

Wow! Death stare are you on glue? Did you read the statement from the theatre?

The baby was screaming.

I don't even know where to begin!

I suppose they shouldn't have let her in no, but it was quite nice of them to compromise with her. But there's no way a 10 month old would stay quiet for 3 hours so if she refused to go outside when the baby got fractious then it's fair enough she was asked to leave.

Making it about breastfeeding is a dick move.

Has anyone organised a 'feed in' at the theatre yet? That's usually the next step.

I do find noisy babies distracting and i guess the people on the stage trying to put on the show do too. As i said previously if you have to take them out because they have started being noisy the disruption has already occurred.

I understand from the comments that people are paying through the nose to hear swearing and yet they object to whatever sounds a baby might make.

Grown-ups are weird.

yes - of course breastfeeding mothers have a 'right' to feed anywhere any time but with that right comes a 'responsibility' to not be so selfish and entitled as to spoil others enjoyment (and garner their 15 minutes of fame and have their sad faces in the Mail).

The management allowed this baby to enter the theatre.

On certain conditions. She broke those conditions. It's like how you're allowed to take your baby to the cinema as long as you take the baby outside if she/he starts making noise that might disturb others. I don't think it's unreasonable to want to watch a west end show without a baby screaming in the background.

It's a right, not a 'right'.

And no, they do not have any responsibility towards other patrons.