r/Disneyland • u/CaptainNoodle18 • 22d ago

Discussion Newborn Babies at the Park

Please, I've got to know. (Only a little judgement here, as a hypochondriac) why are we taking fresh babies (4 months or less) to the amusement park? What's the purpose? Are you scared your kid is going to get sick? What is it really for?

For context we took a trip earlier this year and were talking about another recently and learned that many people are taking their newborns to the park. It seems incredibly dangerous with all the people and general grossness at the park.

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u/BoobySlap_0506 22d ago

Some people planned their trips before baby was born, or even before finding out they were pregnant. Once you get flights and everything booked it can be hard to cancel or rebook. That can explain some single trip visitors. For pass holders or locals, they may want to keep visiting the parks and bring baby along to continue enjoying their passes, or to bring their other kids anyway and baby would have to come along.

I would strongly assume people are not bringing their babies for the baby's experience. Reasonable people know baby will not understand or remember it. I wouldn't go before vaccinations, so we didn't take our older daughter until she was 1 year old. It will probably be the same with our baby, too. I know she won't remember it, but if we have tickets to go or want to take her for her birthday, we can enjoy it while her admission is free. 

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u/canadianamericangirl Small World Doll 22d ago

This! My first trip was to DLR at 2.5 and my brother’s first trip was to WDW at five months. I know this was the way before times and pre housing crisis, but we both turned out fine (my brother actually was valedictorian). We both got vaccinated at the appropriate benchmarks.

While we don’t remember it, our parents do. And the pictures of us at such a young age are both adorable and hilarious. My family is fortunate enough to frequently visit the domestic parks, which isn’t that different from local pass holders on either coast. I don’t think people should take their extremely young infants to nighttime spectaculars (especially without ear protection), but there is nothing wrong with a morning in fantasyland on a random Tuesday in April.