WTF?

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Well that was my response - what do you think?

A couple of friends of mine are going on a girls night out tonight with a group of Mums from their child's nursery (not mine so I'm not going) - one of the mothers, also one of my friends, has a 9 week old dd and is breastfeeding so she is taking her with her

Please - who would take their 2 month old baby on a girls night out to a posh restaurant?? And it's not about the fact that she'd be bfing her in a restaurant btw, but what about the other mums in the group and all the other diners who have gone for a night out only to find a baby in the place?!

Madness and tbh if I was going I'd be pretty peed off.

why mud?

why, in your opinion?

Depends how raucous it got. I wouldn't want a baby along if it was going to cramp everyone's style, but a group of exhausted Mummies sitting round a nice posh table for a change are probably not going to have their style at all cramped by a nine week old. Now a six month old would be different.

don't want to thread hijack but in my opinion I think that's far too old to be feeding in public a child of 2 can talk, walk and be handed a beaker to be kept quiet, it is not reliant on breastmilk, although it is fantastic to still be breastfeeind at that age of course

not necessarily - not ALL 9 week olds are contented little bundles! (I'm not saying this one isn't)

I just don't see why she's taking her and leaving the other 2 in dh's care - don't make sense to me!

No I breastfed her when she was tiny. Although I have lots of friends who breastfeed their toddlers, not sure why that would bother anyone? It's not like they are offering a sip to the waitress.

so what's the right age? (don't want heated debate, genuinely interested what is the "right" age to bfeed in public)

maybe she won't take a bottle?
maybe she thinks 3 might be too much for her dh?

and you might say - it can't get raucous now even if they want it to - style well and truly cramped!

I'm with you GDG besides anything else if I'm without mine i don't want to be around anyone elses!! Especially not on a night out!!

but everyone is saying a 9 weekold is no trouble?

Hmm what kind of RAUCOUS can't happen with a 9 week old asleep on the floor?!

Unless you lot are having FAR more racy mum's nights outs that me....

of course it can still get raucous. 9 week old babies will sleep through anything. What on earth are they planning to do in this 'posh' restaurant? Anyway, she's had 3 kids, she obviously knows what she is doing.

its a bunch of mums fgs, its hardly Ibiza

well you can't get p*ssed for a start - no dancing on the table or falling on top of the baby

all of mine would have just slept through a grils night out in a restaurant at 9 weeks old (nto that I ever had the energy to do it)

MP, as the mother of a 2 yo (boy - could that be the difference?) I am astonished you could take your 2 yo out and get her to sit quietly in her pram. How long for? My 2 yo would be out of the pram and causing havoc within 5 minutes!

mud, really interested in the age thing..

new thread??

have to go in a mo, just wanted an age to ponder over...

2 hours Lonelymum. She is totally angelic actually. I was very smug and all my friends were massively jealous.

I need a [smug] emoticon to go here....

I took DS to my friend's birthday dinner when he was about two months old (DH wanted to come with, rather than babysit!)Fortunately quite a noisy restaurant and not desperately posh. (and DS wasn't too fractious, so noone minded - in fact the comment from some of the guests was, if we'ld known in advance a little baby would be there, we would have thought it would be a nightmare, but in fact it's been great)

god don't you get used to there sometimes being a baby/young child around when you meet up with your friends? Is it at all a big deal?