taking infant to resturant? when?

Peds told me 8 weeks. So of corse I listened and wouldn't. I agreed with the pediatrician (jmo)

But now my DD is 11 weeks old. I would love to go out to dinner or lunch with her but I am afraid of germs.

When did everyone else take their babies out to eat?

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I started taking DS at 8 weeks.

ETA: When he was young, I kept him in the car seat most of the time and just took him out if he was fussy. He slept a lot when ate.

Message edited 9/11/2009 6:00:02 PM.

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We started taking Yael when she was 1 week old

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Benji was about 7 weeks all.

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8 weeks with both kids!

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He was almost 5 weeks the first time. We keep him in the carseat and he usually sleeps. We try to get a seat where it is not crowded.

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11 weeks is a great time to take them out to dinner. I loved the restaurants that had slings for the car seat. I would bring DD in asleep and get to eat some of my lunch or dinner.

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3 weeks

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2 weeks. We often wheel the snap and go into the restaurant or else keep the carrier on the seat next to us.

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DS was in the pub at 4 days old! And we had a meal with him in a a restaurant when he was about a week.

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Probably about 2-3 wks old...we would take her during her napping times and she literally slept the WHOLE meal! If she happeend to wake up we fed her and kept normal routines. of course I didn't let anyone touch her

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DS was 1 week old. he's so used to it that he's an angel whenever we go out to eat--people stop and compliment him all the time

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I think a week or two?

Definitly by the time he was 3 weeks old (b/c my MIL and SIL visited and I know we went out to dinner twice) and I'm pretty sure we went with my mom before that

Honestly, my DS at 2, is still great at restaurants b/c we've always taken him. Obviously I realize this can still change, but he enjoys going out to eat

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We took her out with us at 4 weeks. She was in her car seat and covered up.

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4 weeks...and at 5 weeks we took him on the ferry to Fire Island for dinner.

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Posted by Bxgell2

We started taking Yael when she was 1 week old

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I guess I'm in the minority, but we haven't taken DS to a restaurant yet and he is 11 weeks old. I'm too afraid of him crying and disturbing the other diners. He doesn't sleep a lot during the day, but isn't a particularly fussy baby either.

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About 7 weeks... he's great at restaurants. Usually sleeps and if we feed him he goes back... take turn holding him. Just bring the snap and go and sits in the car seat in the snap and go

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I think they were around 7 or 8 weeks. It was so easy then, they would just sleep!

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I think it was at about 8 weeks and we left her in her carrier the whole time. she slept through most of it..

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I don't remember how old...but he was still a newborn. I kept him in the stroller with the net down as if to say "back away"

Good luck!

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DD is 6.5 weeks and we've only taken her to outside restaurants or inside restaurants at very off times when we knew they wouldn't be crowded. I think coming week will be the week I make the jump to going to an inside restaurant at a normal time. I think I'm a little nervous to do it the first time but after I'm used to it I'm sure it will be fine!