Carrie Wallace and her husband considered the Bourgeois Pig to be their place.

That’s where the couple met. And that’s where they would go to reconnect late on Sundays after his 48-hour shift at Community Living Opportunities ended.

“My opinion of The Pig was that it was a bohemian sort of place that was really accepting and very inclusive,” Wallace said.

Carrie Wallace, Lawrence, says she’s been told by staff at the Bourgeois Pig that she cannot bring her 11-month-old son, Dmitri, to the bar after 11 p.m. Among the reasons given is that the staff does not feel comfortable with her breast-feeding her son at their place.

That is, until manager Frank Dorsey took her aside to express concerns that she was bringing her 11-month-old son, Dmitri, in after 11 p.m.

“It was really kind of surprising and made me a little angry,” Wallace said.

During the day, Wallace and her son are regulars at the downtown business at 6 E. Ninth St. that’s both a coffee house and a bar. She said she’s not often at The Pig late at night.

“I would really guess it’s once every couple of weeks that we would be there after 11 o’clock at all. And that would just be in and out for coffee,” she said. “We don’t stay a long time or have drinks or act wild and have shots. But it was just something that I always felt should be our choice.”

Dorsey said there were people around Wallace who felt otherwise.

“It’s a busy bar,” he said. “And after 10 o’clock or so, the majority of our business is in alcohol. It can get a little rowdy and people have expressed concerns that it was not a good environment to have a child in.”

There also were concerns about drinking and breast-feeding at the same time, said Dorsey, who emphasized that he supports women’s right to nurse in public.

“Whether or not they are drinking, I think it might be misinterpreted,” he said. “And, I think there is some concern on how others might perceive us.”

Since her son’s arrival, Wallace said, she has ordered just three alcoholic beverages at The Pig: a mimosa, a glass of wine and a beer.

After Dorsey listed breast-feeding among his concerns, Wallace said, she feels uncomfortable nursing her baby there.

“I feel like I am being watched and judged,” she said.

Parents taking babies with them to bars has become a hot-button issue across the country as the emerging generation of parents become more mobile and less willing to shelve their social lives.

In the family-centric neighborhood of Park Slope in Brooklyn, the blogosphere was spinning after bars started banning strollers and children after a certain time of day. Dorsey lived in Brooklyn and remembers what he calls the “semi-humorous, semi-serious campaign” against strollers.

“I kind of agreed at the time with the idea that maybe strollers shouldn’t be in bars after hours,” he said.

But as a father of a 2-year-old girl, his views have changed.

“I’ve got the utmost sympathy for families and sometimes if anyone needs a drink it’s a mother of a toddler or an infant,” he said.

But he does believe a line should be drawn somewhere. Wallace would prefer if that line were a bit clearer and a policy put in place by the business.

Otherwise, she said she feels unfairly singled out.