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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been pleasantly surprised at how great music venues have been. I called ahead to 9:30 Club and they saved me a bar stool right above the VIP section for a show and Echostage opened up one of their VIP sectionals when their 'handicapped' section was too full for another pregnant lady and myself last night for Belle and Sebastian. There are so many great shows going on at Merriweather and Wolf Trap but I just can't even imagine being comfortable at an outdoor venue with this heat and humidity. Anyone else enjoying special baby bump treatment at shows? [/quote]

While it's nice that the venues made accommodations for you, I don't think pregnancy is a disability! As someone who's worked for a large venue in the area, it always bothered me when people feigned disabilities in order to secure accessible seating at shows where they'd otherwise not have great seats but were physically capable of sitting with the rest of the crowd. Obviously we wouldn't question it and would honor the request...but accessible seating is limited and it sucks to turn someone down who genuinely needs the accommodation. I went to Wolf Trap, Jiffy Lube, 9:30, and other venues while pregnant and never requested special treatment. Of course at the outdoor venues you're going to suffer through the heat no matter where your seats are![/quote]

I agree that it's not a 'disability' but I certainly can't stand for a 3 hour concert at 8 months pregnant. I think we're talking apples and oranges. 9:30's seats are up a bunch of stairs so I don't think anyone in a wheelchair could even access that area and they wouldn't be able to see the show unless they got up onto a bar stool. Neither venue seemed to have a 'limit' on these seats. Obviously I would never advocate kicking a disabled person out of a seat for a pregnant woman and I don't think being pregnant and asking for a seat or special accommodations is 'feigning' a disability. If it's a seated venue, I'm not sure why a pregnant woman would need to ask for special accommodations...unless your pregnancy has taken such an extreme toll that you need a wheelchair to get around or something of that ilk. But good on you for never requesting special treatment! The woman next to me at the Pixies was 38 weeks along and had been having contractions for four weeks so I feel like she deserves all the special treatment the venue would allow her. [/quote]

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