Does your church have one?
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@bluestriped bee: Ours has a drop off nursery and also a mother's lounge with the service streaming on a tv.
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No! I can't decide if I love it or hate it. Before DD it didn't bother me to hear LO's cry... I felt like it was very inclusive to not have a cry room because crying is what babies do! Now that I have DD, sometimes I step into the vestibule if it is really bad because crying seems to be contagious!
There are four rocking chairs scattered throughout the church though for soothing crying babies.
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Yes. But I don't love it. It's just a broadcast of the service so you can't see it live. Feels very separating.
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Yes, ours does (crying room) but we've never say in it. We might today. It's between the sanctuary and the foyer, so she can go run in the foyer if we're desperate.
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We just have a small nursery room downstairs. No part of the service is piped in but that's ok with me because I usually just needed a quiet space when I needed to use it.
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Our church has pretty extensive children's programming. There is also what they call the "family chapel" which is a separate space that streams the service if you don't want to leave your children in the nursery/kid services.
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No. It used to bother me because I feel like we are disrupting the service, but there are other kids now too and it doesn't bother me too much anymore.
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We have a high tech drop off nursery with electronic check in and pagers starting at 3 months old. It also has a mother's room with bouncers and rockers if you need to nurse and you can pipe the audio of the service in if wanted.
However, I always grew up with a full on cry room at my parents church - a windowed off room at the back of the sanctuary that was sound proofed but with audio so you could watch and listen to the service live, which I think would be easier. I think it's fallen out of favor at modern churches because there's a lot of nursing mothers with boobs out and because it encourages moms and babies to be separate and dads are often more in the mix.
One thing that bugs me is our bathrooms don't have changing stations. We have these long counters that I guess could work but I guess you are encouraged just to use the nursery's changing facilities.
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No crying room, but we do hav a nursery for kids 18 months to 3. I am a teacher in there for 2 hours each Sunday. I love it!!!! And I get to sneak in my 1yr old.
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Yes, there is a 'family room' that is at the back of the sanctuary and has windows and audio piped in. I'm a conscientious objector to most family/cry rooms (I might be okay with individual ones that were up near the front of the church so it is easy to see what's going on on the altar, but everyone crammed in together at the back? Not okay.). Mass is for everyone, and the existence of a kid space often means we get directed there, which is problematic in my opinion. I think it's important to teach by example how to behave in church, and I can't easily do that in the cry room, because there are a lot more distractions.
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Growing up there was a cry room that was like @gingerbebe described. It was a windowed room in the back of the sanctuary that was sound proofed with audio piped in. Children sitting in during the service was (still is, as part of my family and friends still go there) very common as was breastfeeding during services. No one batted an eye of a kid cried or mom breastfed during church. The cry room was there so if a baby was really whiny the parent could still feel part of the service.
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Our church has a nursery and family room with the service streaming and recliners which I wish was dedicated as a cry/nursing room but I often see people without young children in there. As it is, there really isn't a place to discreetly nurse (DS hates the cover) your baby. I have had to use two different pastor's offices for that purpose.
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Both. They have a drop off nursery and a cry/nursing room with rocking chairs, playpens, boppys and a tv to watch the service. It's a small church so I was pleasantly surprised to find we had that. I didn't start dropping DD2 off at the nursery until she became a distraction at church. So maybe 5 months. We werent going to church regularly when DD1 was that small so she was with me until closer to age 1.
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No crying room, but our church has a drop off nursery which we use every week!
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There's a cry room with toys & books downstairs in our church, and recently they added a small TV for broadcast of the service. We use it every once in a while, but our baby & several others are usually in the main part of the church without issue.
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We do! It just started up when LO was born, thank goodness. They've been making it better and better - most recently they added a curtain for nursing mothers, a changing station and an exersaucer. I love it.
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No cry room, but a nursery for babies ages 0-24 months. Most moms don't start dropping off their babies until about 6 months though, when they can sit up totally unassisted. Usually there are 3 volunteers and 6-8 babies. I'm supposed to be volunteering with my husband in a couple of weeks with a 2.5 mo old, which I didn't really think through when I signed up...
Also, we are a very family friendly church. Crying babies and breastfeeding is 100% welcome. We actually have more kids than adults in our membership, since most people have 3+ kids and we don't have many childfree members.
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Yes for babies under 18 mo there is a cry room right behind the sanctuary with viewing glass into and sound. 18 mo and up there are nurseries/Sunday school downstairs in the children's wing.
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Our church does have a windowed room in the back but I've never seen anyone actually use it.
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