Calling the police to check on a crying baby

I think in this situation you need to weigh everything up and not have a dramatic overreaction to some random noises you heard way down the road and are putting 2 and 2 together and coming up with 22 at the expense of many other people, yes. At least check out some details first for god’s sake, that would at least be reasonable and proportionate… something often unfamiliar on mumsnet

I find it impossible to believe that anyone who had gone through the hell that is a sick baby crying would call the police on another mother after a mere 30 minutes.

Yes OP or husband could have checked all the noise was from one house. OP could have gone round in the morning with a Hi, I know you are new here, my children are a bit older and would you like to know about baby groups. If the latest generation cant do that then they are sick.

So you think in this situation the parents feelings are the primary concern?

Complete and utter rubbish!! I have nothing to hide but would be mortified and upset to have someone call the police on me and would struggle to look my neighbours in the eye .., and I’m not a new mum with postnatal hormones to add in to that horrible situation.

My first thought was thst you must have no idea of how far away 100 metres actually is..

I thought that was a sympathetic post, acknowledging how hard it is to cope with a non-stop crying baby as well as other essential tasks.

Ignore those who say you didn't walk down the road to check... What exactly you were meant to see or do by doing that i have no idea. I do wonder about some people. Sadly babies are being neglected and m**dered more often so you definitely did the right thing. If they have nothing to hide then they will not mind the police coming to the door.

If it’s 100m down the road how can you be sure that all these noises relate to the same house? Also with windows open noise travels and we can all hear a lot more from our neighbours houses right now than usually. I think I would have needed more to ring the police than just a crying baby. As PP have said, babies can cry and if someone had called the police to check on mine I would have been mortified. You could have tipped a new mother over the edge. If you wanted to check on the welfare of the baby I think there would have been more discreet and kinder ways to do it than this.

Just had to call the police to check on a new neighbours baby. What would
you have done in this situation?
New neighbours live down our road around 100m away from us and could hear loud very distressed crying for over half an hour.

It sounded like a newborn or young baby crying and so I assumed they’d settle or some attempt to comfort them would be made but the crying stayed at the same level for ther period time. I could also hear raised voices and car doors slamming and I asked my husband if he’d heard it too (he was downstairs) and he said yeah he was worried as well.

Anyway in hoping it was nothing and the little one is fine but it just didn’t sit right and it sounded like no attempt to comfort them was being made at all.

i have no idea who the new neighbours are as it’s quite far from our bit of the road but for it to be that loud from this distance didn’t seem right. I have also had three colicky babies so I do know babies can cry for periods of time but as I said it sounded like no attempt to help them was being made.

Anyway police treating it as a priority case and checking things out. Just wanted to share really as worried.

Babies don’t seem right when it’s 30 degrees at midnight, for the fourth day on the trot. Crying is its only way of telling its parents that they’re tired and have had enough of this heat.

We’ve had grown adults, on here, this week saying the heat has made them vomit, given them migraines, they can’t sleep, don’t want to eat, don’t want to work, yet we expect a tiny baby to be full of the joys of Spring and be its normal self.

I hate this new thing of calling the police on everyone over every little thing. We got a kitten and it got lost and we couldn’t find it so we thought it had got out (it hadnt). Me and my TEEN sons were out on the street at night looking for it and instead of being asked if we are ok or needed any help a neighbour called the police on us! It would have been obvious we were looking for it as we were calling for it! What happened to just asking people if they are ok?

You are a bad parent to leave your baby who is absolutely dependent on you crying for 20-30 minutes so you could have a shower or get things done. HTH.

So has there been some feedback from the police yet?

Replies like this are so depressing. @FromtheMouthsofDecadence some babies cry. All. The. Time.

I’d love to know how you expect mums like @hoxtonbabe to deal with one of those and get life done. Your comment is ridiculous and clearly you’ve never had a baby that cries continuously, or you wouldn’t have made it.

So now it’s gone to the baby being inside and some adults being outside. Admit it, OP, you didn’t know who those adults were because you’ve already said the baby lives in a row of 4 houses. In one house could have been a baby who was fast asleep, then woken up by their neighbours who were having an argument which spilled out on to the street.

The poor mum of the baby could have been doing her level best trying to get a fractious baby, who was now tired, hot and pissed off back to sleep while at the same time cursing the neighbours for waking it up. Then the poor woman would have had to deal with the police, on top, because you put two and two together and came up with five.

I could almost understand you calling the police if you didn’t live on a new build estate, so you’d definitely know where the noise is coming from but you didn’t. And, like I’ve said before, despite you living in a very safe area neither you nor your husband could be bothered to go for a little stroll past those 4 houses to see what was going on.