I'm a new Mum, my baby boy is 18 weeks old and me and my partner are living in our first home together.
Our downstairs neighbours are absolutely awful, they're loud and disruptive. Throughout the day and well into the night they are constantly banging things around unnecessarily to the point where it's actually waking up both my partner and I and our son. I hear them talking, arguing, slamming doors etc over our television. Not to mention the fact that they play horrendously loud music which causes our floor to vibrate and again, wakes up our son.
I've tried to live and let live and get on with my life and not cause a fuss even though the noise makes me anxious. However there have been two occasions in which one of them has banged on our wall because we're making a little bit of noise (because we are considerate and try very hard not to make too much noise.) One time was at around 4 in the afternoon, my partner was putting together some flat pack furniture and had a few nails to hammer in, which obviously is loud, after hammering it in we hear a loud banging on the wall, which was in exactly the same pattern as he had hammered in the nail. We shrugged it off thinking that we might be over thinking things, I don't think 4pm is an unreasonable time to be putting together a small piece of furniture which was virtually silent other than the hammering, especially considering all the noise they make...
Then there was a situation where they were playing stupidly loud music at 2am which I could hear in the bedroom, my LO was asleep after hours of us trying to settle her and they KNOW we have a baby and they were laughing stupidly loud and playing music. They then proceeded to have sex really loudly, with her screaming like a banshee. I can't knock them for having sex I their own home but the music pissed me off.
However, the next morning, our LO was with my MIL so we had some time to ourselves, and it had been a few weeks since we'd had sex so we were both in the mood, it wasn't too early, it was about 11AM and we had barely gotten started, I always try to be quiet because I don't want other people to hear (mortifying for me) and the headboard gently banged against the wall once, and they obviously heard because then one of them banged on the wall, which obviously put us off and really angered my partner as we were trying to be quiet and considering the night before when they were being loud and playing music at stupid-o-clock, they've got a bit of a cheek.
This has made me extremely anxious.
This morning they started having really loud sex at about 2AM which woke us up, and woke their baby up, which obviously annoyed the guy because I heard him yelling "for fuck sake" then slamming the bedroom door and the bathroom door EXTREMELY loudly which woke up our son.
I have tried to be nice to these people but they are really getting on my nerves with the constant noise. I don't want to say anything either because they're clearly the type of people who would start complaining about every little thing even if we had a polite word with them. I don't know what to do. I'm at a loss and it's stressing me out and they keep waking up me and my baby!!!