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Anonymous wrote:

+1, me too. One of the first times I took my son out was to a bar, though it was nearly empty and summertime.

That's the difference, then. It's only bad to bring a baby to a bar when there are people there and it's snowing.

Apparently so! No worries, I am sure if he had happened to be 2 weeks old during the colder months we would have taken him anyway. Lucky for me, he was born in July, so we got to do our newborn bar hopping over the summer.

The Reef used to have a family happy hour--full of families with babies and small children--so I'm guessing babies in bars is not illegal in DC. A bar at 6 or 7 in the evening is usually a pretty tame place, and it's a nice way to socialize with others. I really don't see the problem.

And last night was NOT a snowstorm. It was just snowing. I'm guessing it wasn't snowing in the bar, though, so the baby was probably fine.

My 3 week old got RSV and ended up in the NICU for a month (because he was so young the doctors felt the NICU was the best place for him). It sucked. I'm all for fun and getting outside and living life, but after that experience I rethought how cavalier I was with my very young infant. With my older DD we went out the first week and really enjoyed bringing her with us to restaurants, friends' homes, and anywhere else we went (hiking, farmers markets, music festivals). But she was a summer baby and there wasn't rampant flu / RSV / norovirus floating around - or I was blissfully ignorant and we were really lucky.

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, who takes a newborn anywhere at night during a snowstorm?

What snowstorm are you talking about?? You cannot possibly be talking about the pittance we got last night.

You never leave home with a child after sundown?

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Does this hold true for liquor stores , too?

Number of times I've taken my children to the liquor store: maybe 20
Number of times I've been arrested for it: 0

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I call lie unless you name the bar. It's illegal and one can lose a liquor license, pay a fine, get closed down for doing what you claim.

BIG stink happened in our town when a cop took his son to a sports bar. Cop was arrested. CPS was called. Bar was fined.

Not in DC. My child has been in almost every hip bar downtown, starting from about a week old. I didn't let anyone other than 2 or 3 relatives touch her though until she was six weeks old. Thd cold or snow wouldn't bother me as much as if it were very crowded, but I was very sensitive to germs in the early weeks.

You brought your kid to a place that served food AND liquor. You cannot bring a minor inside ANY establishment that predominately sells liquor. It is illegal in every state.

Don't believe me, bring your child to a pub and see what happens. You will be arrested for child abuse. Go ahead, bring your baby to a BAR. I doubt they let you in.

Does this hold true for liquor stores , too?

Anonymous wrote:I live in SF and once a month we have playgroup at a beer garden. Love it.

I was at a beer garden in Arlington where happy hour had so many young families and you couldn't get a seat!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I call lie unless you name the bar. It's illegal and one can lose a liquor license, pay a fine, get closed down for doing what you claim.

BIG stink happened in our town when a cop took his son to a sports bar. Cop was arrested. CPS was called. Bar was fined.

Not in DC. My child has been in almost every hip bar downtown, starting from about a week old. I didn't let anyone other than 2 or 3 relatives touch her though until she was six weeks old. Thd cold or snow wouldn't bother me as much as if it were very crowded, but I was very sensitive to germs in the early weeks.

You brought your kid to a place that served food AND liquor. You cannot bring a minor inside ANY establishment that predominately sells liquor. It is illegal in every state.

Don't believe me, bring your child to a pub and see what happens. You will be arrested for child abuse. Go ahead, bring your baby to a BAR. I doubt they let you in.

Yeah, no. Please show us evidence of the tens of thousands of arrests for "child abuse" that must be occurring across America when parents bring their kid to a pub for lunch or dinner.

Go ahead. I'll wait.

^^^and the family got the RSV from preschool, not from a bar

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't take a young baby out due to flu rsv season and pass him/ her around but I think
A lot of people feel differently - rsv is flying around our community and we've all had it in our house - I'm on the 10th day and still sick - can't imagine a 3 week old catching this

Okay, but you don't have RSV, you have the common cold.

There's no way for either you or the PP to know this without a lab test. I had RSV as an adult and would have thought it was just a bad cold, except that my three-month-old ended up at the ER and tested positive for RSV.

My kid got rsv as a toddler after flying in February. Scary as hell. Babies can die from rsv or the flu. Newborns don't have much immunity...that's why many parents are overly cautious with them. I wouldn't play pass the baby anywhere with a newborn.

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't take a young baby out due to flu rsv season and pass him/ her around but I think
A lot of people feel differently - rsv is flying around our community and we've all had it in our house - I'm on the 10th day and still sick - can't imagine a 3 week old catching this

Okay, but you don't have RSV, you have the common cold.

Sounds great!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I call lie unless you name the bar. It's illegal and one can lose a liquor license, pay a fine, get closed down for doing what you claim.

BIG stink happened in our town when a cop took his son to a sports bar. Cop was arrested. CPS was called. Bar was fined.

Not in DC. My child has been in almost every hip bar downtown, starting from about a week old. I didn't let anyone other than 2 or 3 relatives touch her though until she was six weeks old. Thd cold or snow wouldn't bother me as much as if it were very crowded, but I was very sensitive to germs in the early weeks.

You brought your kid to a place that served food AND liquor. You cannot bring a minor inside ANY establishment that predominately sells liquor. It is illegal in every state.

Don't believe me, bring your child to a pub and see what happens. You will be arrested for child abuse. Go ahead, bring your baby to a BAR. I doubt they let you in.

You are insane. You have also never been to Wisconsin.

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, who takes a newborn anywhere at night during a snowstorm?

You know, it turns out kids can manage fine if properly dressed. We took ours out in way worse weather than dc ever has. He was fine and so were we.