Baby at Funeral

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I went to a funeral a couple of weeks ago.

In the back row was a mourner (not family) with a baby.

The baby cried nearly the whole way through and the family in the front kept looking around as if to say "please stop"!

It was only right at the end during the committal that they took the baby outside but we could still hear the baby crying in the hallway.

Surely the parents should have taken the baby out the minute he/she started crying?

It was obviously very off putting for everyone.

I told my DP that I don't want young children at my funeral when it's my turn to go!

AIBU to think it was very disrespectful?

I had to miss most of GMIL’s funeral service because our infant child decided that was the moment to be noisy. My job as the supportive spouse was to sit in the back and take our baby out immediately if needed. Would I have like to attend the full service? Yes, but everyone we were comfortable having babysit was also attending the funeral so that had to be my job. The important thing was that DH be able to attend his grandmother’s funeral uninterrupted and without a crying baby.