Not allowed siblings at my sons nativity play .. including my breast fed baby??

[WinnieLovett]

My daughter is 4 months old and breastfeeding.

My two other sons are involved in the school nativity play. The school will be having two performers one at 2:30 and one at 7:00.

I have been informed that the school has a ‘no sibling rule’ to watching so I will not be allowed to bring my daughter. The issue is these times are both when she has milk.

I was also told by the head that she may make noise and interrupt the performance !!

Really sad as I don’t want to miss it ! But do not feel happy leaving my baby at these times!

In this day and age? Really? OP you simply aren't getting it. Babies are a disruption. In this day and age, surely you should know better than to be so selfish that you think you have the right to destroy the play for everyone. You complain about posters being nasty, but you seem to rub people up the wrong way with the unshakeable belief that you are right and you have the right to be selfish and disrupt others, just because you have a baby. Your entitled attitude really stands out.

Hahah "you could actually sue"

Pull the other one.

‘Not happy usually at these times’ ……..even more reason to give it a miss this year.

Did you actually read the OP, or just the word breastfeeding?

Why can't a breast feeding mother not leave her baby? What is wrong with expressing some milk for the baby to feed off whilst mother goes to the Nativity? Honest to god what is wrong with some people? Seriously wouldn't know a real problem if it hit them over the head,!

I’m sure if baby started screaming OP would take her out !

It’s really not that simple. It takes more than a few seconds to get up out of the seat and walk out with the baby. That’s a few kids lines gone potentially. It’s selfish.

Just take the baby. They really are bit going to turn you away

I hope they do turn her away. Why is the OP so special? Why does she get to ignore the rules?

@maddy68 Why would you give such selfish advice? And she certainly would be turned away at our school!

I should hope they would turn op away.
Do you expect your dc to follow rules? Or are your dc the entitled ones that rules don't apply to ?

Express and you got to the 2:30 performance and husband at 7:00. X

No one is preventing her from breastfeeding. The baby can go without doing so for half an hour.

And once a child has cried, the atmosphere is ruined. Better to prevent the disruptions in the first place, which is what the school has wisely chosen to do.

Yes we know it wouldn't bother you and you wouldn't give a shit, because you are that selfish that you don't care about anyone other than yourself. That is very clear from your posts.

This thread shows that the parents who want to take their children are the very same ones who are so pig ignorant and selfish they wouldn't take a crying baby out. These type of parents are the EXACT REASON the rules exist.

@Dacadactyl You wouldn’t give a shit until your child in the nativity play was the unhappy child who’s mum and baby interrupted the show , possibly even missed their part in the show

Very selfish , it about the child in the show who has worked on it for weeks eager to show mum : dad : granny: grandad
Not you and the baby

Replies on here are nuts. I’m pretty sure that the Equality Act protects breastfeeding mothers, and that it’s actually not legal.

And no, I couldn’t leave my breastfed babies for 30 mins at that age. You feed on demand.

None of my children’s schools have ever excluded younger siblings from the audience either (four different primary schools), it’s not universal.

The younger ones have never disturbed the performance. The disturbance is usually parents jumping about to take pictures and record on mobile phones.

It's nothing to do with breastfeeding

It's about ruining a nativity play with a crying baby that lots of children have spent months practicing for only for their one line to be drowned out by one woman's screaming baby who simply had to be there despite knowing it's her feeding time

Mothers are allowed to breastfeed their babies in places that the mother and baby are allowed to be.

In this case the baby is not allowed to be there.

Yes that's pants really

A lot of what schools demand of parents assumes that you don't work as a mum nor have babies to care for

Really all you can do is ask and say"but I will take baby out if they start crying"
Achool has probably had some uniformed schools behave - it is frustrating how sexist and discriminatory they can be

Wish my kids’ primary had this rule!
Every fucking year there’d be babies and toddlers and even pre-schoolers making a noise. I kept thinking, “we’re all here because we care about children, this is just part of it” I really wanted to feel like that. But no… every year you miss half of what’s said (like your child’s one line) because someone else lets the baby fuss too long because they don’t want to miss their one line.

come on @FatGirlSwim

30mins for a nativity show I’m sure op could feed before or after

It’s the boys day . a day they are proud to show their mum and dad how much they worked hard to learn lines and songs

If my child’s part was disturbed by a parent trying to settle a crying child damn right I would be furious

PS I was a breast feeding mother and know how hard it is but 30 minds come on

You don't understand the Equality Act then. It doesn't give you rights you wouldn't otherwise have if you weren't breastfeeding, and there's no right to take a baby into a school nativity.

They are, actually. Legally, they are allowed.