Breastfeeding mom kicked out of movie speaks with ABC7

KTVU has reached out to Regal Cinemas for comment.

Did the thought of catching a flick ever cross my mind when my kiddos were infants (they’re 2 and 1 now)?

What’s not, however, cool is to tell a nursing mother she has to cover up.

“No one had communicated that children under 6 were not allowed in R-rated movies”. We did not allow the two of them to stay for the movie given our policy on R-rated films. That’s why Regal’s CEO Amy Miles can go on record as saying that in order to provide the “best moviegoing experience” for patrons, they sometimes “limit the number” of children in R movies.

Members of the group tried to reason with the theater manager but they claim he was unwilling to listen to them, even when they said the moms were willing to sit on the aisle and leave if the babies made any noise.

While I personally wouldn’t be bothered by these moms (unless baby was crying and they didn’t take baby out!), if theaters have policies in place that say small children – including babies, who barely remember they burped and farted, let alone what was on a screen they can’t even see yet – can’t go to certain films, well, it is what it is. “I have to do this and trust that she is going to be an awesome baby”.

“I’ve always been pretty modest, and I don’t like to nurse in public, so I was holding off to see if she would calm down”, Valverde told the blog.

“They can’t leave their child because the child doesn’t take a bottle”.

However, a lawyer friend of Miz Cebull says the parents weren’t being discriminated against, since breastfeeding mothers aren’t protected. “The option is to miss out, which is unfortunate”.

The women have now argued the theater needs to be more flexible But maybe the moms should take their own advice.

When they asked about the consistency of enforcement, the assistant manager of the theater reportedly said she probably would have gotten away with taking her baby to the movie if she had smuggled him in.

She said with the power of the 50 women in their group, they had hoped their purchases and willingness to monitor themselves would be enough to sway the manager.

“They made me feel like a awful person for bringing my child”, Cahill told The News-Press.

A group of mothers in Lincoln, Nebraska chose to do the same by taking a trip to their local cinema to see the film – an activity that ended in disaster when they were thrown out for being what the cinema chain’s employees ironically deemed to be naughty mothers.

“He said, ‘You can’t go to the movie, you’re going to have cover up or you’re going to have to leave, ‘” she describes.

“And one by one, then four, five six, seven, eight started walking away.”

And over 35 people in their group got up and walked out of the theater!

The women had their tickets refunded and continued their night at Cantina Laredo.