I just got back from Vauvakino, which is a monthly event put on by Finnkino, the major cinema company in Finland. The idea is that it's a movie experience where you can bring your baby. They don't turn the lights down all the way, and the volume is a little lower, and they have changing tables set up with piles of free diapers. Companies selling baby products come and market things, and there are little goody bags. And there are SO. MANY. BABIES. I have never seen that many babies in one place. I don't think I've even seen that many babies in one place in a photo or movie.
The theater used today has 459 seats. Not all were taken, but I would say almost every other one was taken. And in each lap, or on the floor in a carry cot was a baby. Most babies I know nap around 12 or 12:30, so most babies were crying throughout the second half of the movie. And all through the movie, there were many kids sleeping, but still more prattling happily, others crying, and still others screaming. Lumi behaved awesomely and only cried for about 30 seconds at some point. The movie today was 'The Help'. I will have to see it again, because it seemed pretty good, and I missed some parts due to the aforementioned screaming.
Helsinki has a lot of great little things like this which make being a new mother easier. The theaters obviously don't have to do it, and I imagine that it is a fairly gross cleanup process afterward with the food scraps everywhere and diapers (there is a general rule about not disposing of poo-filled diapers in public, but even 200+ pee diapers is a lot). And if 200+ babies is visually amazing and stunning, 200+ strollers is fucking terrifying.
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