During the week OH booked him, me & baby into a diner / bar / restaurant for a meal this valentine afternoon. We chose this place as it is more relaxed than a formal restaurant & avoided prime times of lunch & evening as we would have sproggle with us.
We arrived & where greeted by our booked name - only people with baby - shown to our reserved table, with high chair. Sproggle is 8 months old, breast fed & blw. Getting off the train had interrupted a breastfeed, so when we sat down I continued to breastfeed her.
A couple - late fifties, early sixties - sat at the next table.
When sproggle was fed I went to change her before the food arrived & then put her in the high chair. Before we'd got the high chair tucked up close to the table, she headbutted the edge of the table & started to cry. So we took her out to give her a cuddle. She was still upset, so I put her back on the breast. She subsequently went to sleep.
The couple at the next table looked like they were leaving, but actually there drinks had been put on the table behind them. The lady was clearly trying to be placed at a different table.
They stayed at the table behind.
Sproggle cried, cried not screamed, for less than 3 minutes, but was on the breast for quite a while.
When she woke, she sat happily in the high chair stuffing her face with pitta & houmus. Making a mess, that we cleared.
The staff had no issue with us.
So were the couple being unreasonable to move tables?