New baby in cinema

[SciFiRocker]

So would it be unreasonable to take a new baby to the cinema?
I mean any showing, something you'd normally watch without kids.

The baby would be breastfed if crying and obviously taken out if it made too much noise.

Go to baby cinema, or get a baby sitter. Anything else would be very selfish on your part.

As with the rest of the people, if I had got childcare for my own child so I can go and watch a film I would be really annoyed having to listen to someone else’s cry.
What’s to say that your too noisy isn’t way beyond what other people think is acceptable? Or if your baby decides that this is the time when they don’t want to feed and just want to scream?

Nooo.

Wouldn't ever dream of it and don't know who would tbh.

Our local cinemas do baby showings (for under 1's) of all the films in the programme - often in the mornings.

Lots of chain cinemas do "baby" screenings. Adult films but slightly quieter and lighter. And obvs the expectation that babies will grizzle or be fed throughout. Usually times are like 10am on a tuesday or similar.

Only to baby cinema. They really shouldn't let you into a 15 or 18.

Yeah unreasonable unless a baby screening

Not fair on the baby, not fair on the others in the cinema.

The noise can damage their ears.

As loads of others have said, cinemas aren’t actually allowed to let babies into films that are 12a+. Bit of a weird law but there it is.

I’m usually very much ‘go for it’ when it comes to mothers being allowed to circulate and go to coffee shops and the like but yeah, an evening out at the cinema is about £40 for me (2 tickets, drinks, travel - London) and I would really not appreciate it being interrupted by a baby crying. Sorry.

I think it's fine as long as you take your baby out the second it makes any noise. Not just waiting until its 'lots of noisr'. Sit at the seats nearest the exit, and be prepared to pop out.

No one should have to endure baby noises at the cinema (outside baby showings), but equally, you shouldnt have to go without.

Definitely not. Baby cinema then normal cinema another time in the future without baby.

No- that’s what baby cinema is for. Anything else is unreasonable.

I took 2 month old DS to see Sully. I timed it for his nap, he slept through s the plane crashes. Nobody was disturbed

Ps- I went to baby cinema loads of times and saw the latest films. You don’t have to miss out - you just need to pick the most appropriate showing.

I wouldn't consider it for a new born. It's loud but also could be very disturbing for them getting in and out of a car, out in the cold and the noise and light from a cinema could be very upsetting

No, sorry. Go to a baby screening.

Being able to go to the cinema pretty much weekly is one of the things I miss most about my life pre-children, and it is now a rare treat. I would be seriously unimpressed to find a baby there.

Joke, right?

If its an adult film then no, unless its a mother and baby screening. I still remember going to see The Devil Wears Prada at a mother and baby screening and DS slept all the way through.

If its a child film and you're taking another child then maybe, particularly if its one of those cheap Saturday morning jobs where you're kind of expecting to get disrupted anyway.

The baby would be breastfed if crying and obviously taken out if it made too much noise.

I wouldn't be against it in theory but "breastfed if crying" and "too much noise" make me suspect you might not be as 'on it' as it would be necessary to be. Literally any crying or noise would be too much noise for normal non-baby cinema. To be fair, I'd be more forgiving if going to the cinema cost about a tenner in total like it should do, but as someone else said it's about a £40/£50 night out.

No, sorry but if I had left my baby at home and gone out for an evening at the cinema, and paid and extortionate amount for a ticket I wouldn’t be happy to be sat near another baby. You say you would breastfeed if crying but any amount of crying is not ok when people have paid to watch a film

Fine to a kids movie during the day as there is often the occasional kid disruption - as long as you took it out or bf as soon as it started to cry (unless it’s a specific parent and baby screening).

Evening movie - no way! I would be very unimpressed and the moment a baby starts crying is enough to disrupt the movie and unfair to other cinema goers.

No way! I wouldn't do this

I wouldn't be happy about it and I have four kids. I'd hate to finally have a very rare night off only for a crying baby to ruin it for me. It's the same with restaurants in the evening too. I need a break from kids sometimes lol

I’d have no problem with you bringing your baby, I wouldn’t even mind a bit of crying. Not too much though, no so much the noise, but because of my own urge to comfort them would distract me.

However, all the cinemas here are really loud, so unless I could find some ear defenders that are suitable for a newborn I wouldn’t take them.

Feel free to drop the baby around at mine instead, I’ll provide lots of cuddles while you go to see the movie!