Bringing small baby to a wedding - music too loud?

[Birdiegirl]

Hi this possibly a bit of a PFB question, so apologies in advance! We're going to a family wedding at the weekend and bringing 9 week DD with us. I'm breastfeeding so no problems there and she's happy to sleep in sling once fed and changed.

Just worried will the evening music be too loud for her and end up damaging her hearing permanently or something?!

I hope not as we took our three week old to the Olympic swimming today! It was really loud but he fed and slept in the sling all morning.

I think you will be ok!
If you are worried, ear muffs?
Don't worry, I was just as bad with my son. Didn't dare give him formula in France in case it was fundamentally poisoness.....

Thanks for the replies. I won't worry about permanent hearing loss to her delicate little ears then

Also do people bring babies to wedding parties in general? I have some very opinionated Aunts who will have their judgy pants pulled right up about DD staying with us for the disco!

I have done exactly what you are planning to do at two weddings recently. I was even on the dance floor with DS fast asleep in his sling. He slept really well, my biggest problem was doting relatives saying they wish he would wake up so they could cuddle him!
He was 4 months at the weddings and is 5 months now so I can't definitively say his hearing hasn't been affected, but he seems absolutely fine ( and woke up this evening when DH burped too loud!

This reminded me of a wedding we went to when Dd was 10 days old

We sat at the back so could take her out if she cried. There was a male voice choir. After they'd finished their first bit they filed into the two rows behind us. Each hymn during the service was like a wall of sound. We could literally feel them. Dd slept soundly all the way through. Go. Enjoy yourself. Let everyone coo over your pfb and be hugely proud of yourself

My ds2was premature and only a month old at a wedding we went to. He was in their 'baby room' for all of ten minutes and I couldn't bear it and brought him down. He just coo'ed in his cot next to the table and had a good cuddle with the guests at the disco. No one minded, I guess etiquette depends on the couple.
Enjoy your PFB. I love pfb parents, I think it's lovely!

My Ds was 3 months old when we took him to a wedding , in the evening he slept in his car seat under the table !

Enjoy - people will be swooning over her .

By the time my dd was 12 weeks old we had been to 3 weddings. I stayed over night in the hotel each of them were in, it was really good having your own room to go to. Also meant dh took dd away about 9 ish and I was able to dance etc til the next feed.

I took ds to a 60th/70th bday party when he was 3 months. He looked at the disco lights and then fell asleep, despite the loud music, so I left him in his car seat under a table with my mum's neighbour and had a dance :-)

Loads of small people, babies to about five at the last wedding I was at. Baby just slept in his pram, on 2-3y was fast a sleep on the chairs right by the disco.
DD2 (11) danced with a little girl of 3 or 4 until gone 11pm and I think she got tired first.

mince what about all the French babies?

Depends on the baby tbh, all you can do is see how it goes on the day.

I went to one when DS was 12 weeks. He was fine, slept all evening.

Another baby 2 weeks older was upset so was taken home.

Not a lot you can do either way so just give it a go and follow her lead.

(oh, and ignore the judgey aunties, they'll be pissed up on sherry and doing the maccarena by half past 9 )

DD went to a wedding at 3 weeks & slept in her carseat during the ceilidh. We went home at 1am. She's now 4 & can hear me opening a packet of crisps from three floors away small babies are easy at weddings.