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Nervous about bringing our 5 month old out to a restaurant – are people really as unforgiving as I think?
My husband and I had our first child almost 5 months ago. We haven’t been out to eat together since. I went to lunch with our son, my mother and my brother once, and our son did great (given, the restaurant was a pizza joint and was deserted when we went to eat). I thought, this went great! My MIL insisted on going out to eat at Olive Garden for lunch one day. We picked a Wednesday, I think, at like 2 to avoid crowds. My son was ok until I had to change his diaper. I laid him on the changing table in the bathroom, with a blanket under him, and he screamed like he was put on a bed of nails. After that, he was miserable the whole time. We rushed through our meal, he cried so much, and one of us was constantly away from our table with him so he wouldn’t cry and disturb other guests. Luckily no one complained to us, because I would have just cried too. I tried so hard in the restaurant to keep things in control, but the experience made me feel so bad that I really don’t want to do it again.
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