Bringing baby to a restaurant

amother

Powderblue

Fri, Aug 10 2018, 10:26 am

moonstone wrote:

Postpartum depression? Now you're being ridiculous. Going to nice restaurants is not an inalienable right that every person NEEDS. I think I can safely say that not going to a nice restaurant for several months isn't going to cause anyone postpartum depression. Like I said in my previous post, of course you should get out and about. But that doesn't mean you can bring Junior anywhere you want. Being a mother means not always being able to do whatever you want.

1000%! When you make the choice to be a mother, it means sidelining aspects of your current lifestyles and making adjustments for your precious bundle. But it doesn't mean that everyone else around has to do that too.

farm

Fri, Aug 10 2018, 12:49 pm

Some restaurants have rules regarding attire (ties, jackets, shoes, etc), most don't allow pets, and some don't have any limitations and don't care. If there is a problem bringing children, it should be clearly stated. None in my neighborhood have limitations so I'm sorry if the sight of them offends you but as long as they're behaving, I would bring them without a second thought.

Teomima

Sat, Aug 11 2018, 10:05 pm

moonstone wrote:

To be fair, nor is the expectation of a quiet, child-free meal an "inalienable right."

Personally, if it isn't my child, it doesn't bother me. I have no expectations, anywhere, of never seeing a child. Their presence, crying or not, does not upset me (the only exception I can think of is a movie theater. If they're quiet, fine, but if they're crying and the parent doesn't take them out, that would tick me off). But a kid that's not mine fussing in a restaurant? Couldn't care less.

notshanarishona

Sat, Aug 11 2018, 11:14 pm

amother wrote:

Notshanarishona, exclusively breastfeeding is a choice moms make. Along with this choice comes not being able to take baby places where they don't belong.

It's really not a choice always. Maybe my daughter was the exception but we tried every specialized bottle , feeding specialists, me leaving her and she would not take a bottle. She was early and having trouble gaining and I had the whole medical world on my case to make her gain weight at a few months old so I said fine you try and even the hospital could not get her to take a bottle and this lasted until she was 12 months and finally started taking solids. It's not really the point of this thread but from different networking I know people who plan to ebf for maternity leave and then have a really hard or impossible time getting the baby to take anything else.

amother

Pewter

Sat, Aug 11 2018, 11:45 pm

Of course people have a hard time with their babies taking a bottle after six weeks of exclusivly breastfeeding! You can just decide one day to give bottles, it has to be from the beging. Like I said, it's a choice moms make.