Taking oneself and a baby to a baby-friendly movie theater is one of our favorite milestones of maternity leave. It requires you to leave the house, challenges you to practice feeding and changing in a public location, but also provides the support of a dark room and fellow new moms (aka crying babies) to remind you that you’re not the only one doing this.
We are always on the lookout for new mommy movie showings and were delighted to learn that the AMC theater chain has partnered with pregnancy mega-site The Bump to present Bring Your Baby matinees.
These special showings will be on the first Tuesday of every month and feature a baby-friendly environment: brighter lights, lower volume, and boobs, bottles, bulky strollers, and crying are welcome.
Here is the list of participating theaters.
- Arizona
- AMC Deer Valley 30
- AMC Desert Ridge 18
- AMC Mesa Grand 24
- California
- AMC Covina 17
- AMC Downtown Disney District 12
- AMC Mission Valley 20
- AMC Norwalk 20
- AMC Ontario Mills 30
- AMC Plaza Bonita 14
- AMC Promenade 16
- AMC Puente Hills 20
- AMC Rolling Hills 20
- AMC Showplace Manteca 16
- AMC Tustin 14
- AMC Tyler Galleria 16
- Colorado
- AMC Flatiron Crossing 14
- AMC Highlands Ranch 24
- Connecticut
- AMC Loews Danbury 16
- District of Columbia
- AMC Loews Georgetown 14
- Florida
- AMC Aventura 24
- AMC Sunset Place 24
- Georgia
- AMC Discover Mills 18
- AMC Parkway Pointe 15
- AMC Southlake 24
- Illinois
- AMC Barrington 30
- AMC River East 21
- AMC Showplace Village Crossing 18
- AMC Yorktown 17
- Indiana
- AMC Traders Point 12
- Kansas
- AMC Town Center 20
- Massachusetts
- AMC Boston Common 19
- AMC Framingham 16
- AMC Loews Methuen 20
- Maryland
- AMC Rio Cinemas 18
- Michigan
- AMC Forum 30
- AMC Great Lakes 25
- AMC Livonia 20
- Missouri
- AMC Creve Coeur 12
- AMC Independence Commons 20
- New Jersey
- AMC Cherry Hill 24
- AMC Clifton Commons 16
- AMC Freehold Metroplex 14
- AMC Garden State 16
- AMC Hamilton 24
- AMC Jersey Gardens 20
- AMC Monmouth Mall 15
- AMC New Brunswick 18
- AMC Rockaway 16
- New York
- AMC Loews Kips Bay 15
- AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13
- AMC Palisades Center 21
- AMC Raceway 10
- AMC Stony Brook 17
- North Carolina
- AMC Concord Mills 24
- Pennsylvania
- AMC Franklin 14
- AMC Neshaminy 24
- AMC Tilghman Square 8
- Texas
- AMC Deerbrook 24
- AMC First Colony 24
- AMC Grapevine Mills 30
- AMC Gulf Pointe 30
- AMC Mesquite 30
- AMC Stonebriar 24
- AMC The Parks At Arlington 18
- Virginia
- AMC Hoffman 22
- AMC Potomac Mills 18
- AMC Tysons Corner 16
- Washington
- AMC Kent Station 14
- AMC Loews Woodinville 12
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[...] to my cyber friend Whitney of Rookie Moms for the scoop on this program. Rookie Moms is full of suggestions for activities you can do with [...]
I’m so torn about this – I really want to love it! (I tried the “take your newborn to the movie” thing, from your list of things to do with an infant, but I made a rookie mistake, choosing a crowded evening showing of Horrible Bosses with my 6 week old, and getting a LOT a dirty looks!) But now that this is finally coming to a theatre near me, my son is 10 months old. That’s too old, I assume, for a baby to be unaware of the movie on the huge screen in front of him, right? The first one of this series is Hunger Games! It says right on the ad “MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense violent thematic material and disturbing images involving teens”! Where do you stand on the appropriate age range for this whole “bring your baby matinee” idea, considering the popular advice these days is little to no tv at all before the 2nd birthday? (We put on one Yo Gabba Gabba a day for my son, after breakfast, and that’s it, and then my husband and I watch our shows after Quinn has gone to bed.)
btw – I first thought this said “Bring your baby MANATEE”. That resulted in a bafling couple of seconds. lol
What about UT?! We dont have AMC that I know of!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have been dying to see Hunger Games and was seriously debating taking a 12-day old to a regular matinee. This will make me feel much less guilty if he cries in the theatre, although between the noise and nursing him, I doubt he’ll even be awake for much of it.
[...] of my good friends on the web: Whitney from Rookie Moms for sharing this special program with me. Visit her site for other participating locations outside of Indiana as well as more cool information for [...]
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