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A Brisbane mother has been told she'll need a ticket to breastfeed her four-month-old son in order to attend one of Ed Sheeran's sold-out concerts next week. Mrs McDonald has standing tickets for herself, her mother, and her sister-in-law, but did not think she would need one for her infant son, who hadn't been born when tickets went on sale last year.

Maybe she thought the baby would be four months late.

The spokeswoman said the company "would always discourage bringing a child of such a young age to a concert". Even with earmuffs it's still obviously an incredibly loud environment to bring in a child with such sensitive ears," she said. "A concert environment includes extreme loud noises, often [pyrotechnics] which are incredibly loud as well, and often lighting effects which may distress people.

Attending a concert is more important to her than the welfare of her baby or the other patrons who don't want their enjoyment interrupted by a screaming baby.