That they should have just got a fucking babysitter

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I am sitting in a nice restaurant trying to have a good evening with my friends. And the couple next to me have their baby, no more than 1 month old. Screaming his or her head off for half an hour.

AIBU that they should not bring a tiny baby into a restaurant?

oh dear that sounds horrendous. They should have taken the baby outside and tried to calm him/her down. That would have been the polite thing to do. They must have been embarrassed surely, that they were ruining everyone else dinner?

Maybe if you got off your phone instead of mumsnetting and you actually focused on your friends you would have a better time?

I wonder If there will be another thread soon aibu that I,m trying to chat to my friend but she keeps looking at her phone and ignoring me?

Well, it definitely is inconsiderate, that's for sure. Once a baby or toddler starts crying they need to be taken outside, straightaway. I'd have some sympathy if it was a lone parent, but this is a couple, one of them could take the baby outside.

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What on earth possesses people to go to a nice restaurant with a newborn in the evening?? YADNBU

alpaca one thing they could have done would be to not take a tiny baby that is likely to cry to a place where its crying disturbs about 20 other families.

Getting your phone out at the table is bad enough but to actually post something while your friends sit there is very rude.

Getting your phone out at the table is bad enough but to actually post something while your friends sit there is very rude.

Friends could be getting drinks, at the toilet, anything.

OP hasn't been back since first post.

Maybe the op was in the bathroom at 19.13 and posted then. She has not come back with any post after that so I think it's fair to assume that she is chatting to her friends since then.

I'd imagine the OP and her her friends can't talk or hear themselves think over the noise of the selfish fuckers screaming baby, so she might as well mumsnet instead.

I think this thread could have waited til they got home TBF.

Maybe they're all texting each other because they can't hear each other talk?

Oblivious entitled parents again sigh.

Their child is obv allowed to annoy everyone else of course s/he is. Precious little mite.

I often wonder if parents (and barking dog owners) just don't hear the noise anymore, yet it drives everyone else nuts!

I'd be out the door in a flash if my baby was roaring in public like that. How could you sit there? I'd be gone.

Anyway. Crying screaming babies/restaurants is a NO from this jury.

Indeed Sparkling some people look for things to be outraged about.

At one month old I'd cut them some slack

They've clearly made the biggest mistake of their lives nice and early and it won't happen again

They're probably so sleep deprived one said to the other "fuck this shit, we're still people, let's take this kid out so we can pretend we're not changed"

They were WRONG

People talk, babies scream.

Does a month old really get that loud?

I dunno fanjo, a newborn cry makes me lactate so could be interesting if I was wearing a flimsy top

Yes, some of them get very loud.

Say something to the waiter!

I went out for the first time with friends and without child 9months since having my Son there was a couple in the restaurant with a newborn and it cried as they do. It wasn't loud and didn't cause much disturbance apart from making me lactate all over the nicest thing I had worn in well over a year!

1 month old babies tend to get loud when they want to be fed.