Neighbour noise complaint

[Fupoffyagrasshole]

We live in a ground floor flat - neighbours above us knocked on our door this morning and the guy was pretty stressed out telling us he can’t sleep and we need to keep the noise down (this was 9.30am) we apologised and asked what the problem was - he said we get up early and his bedroom is above ours and he can hear our baby crying, heard my husband singing her a nursery rhyme and talking (we were reading her some books in the bed)

We said we do start our day at 7.30 as we have a 1 year old and that’s her schedule unfortunately.

He said he needs to sleep in on a Saturday - and that in future can we move to another room and be quiet.

I’m a bit miffed tbh - I can hear every footstep they take, they have their tv loud, I can hear them in their bedroom chatting and laughing at night, they put the washing machine on late at night right above my daughters room - but I’ve never said anything as I felt this is part of living in a flat unfortunately a bit of noise! I’ve learned to live with it

It’s actually really upset me now tbh I find myself afraid to even sing baa baa black sheep to my daughter in the bath this evening.

Ugh 😑 not sure what we can do tbh - babies cry and they get up early - we start our day early / they start theirs late
I don’t feel like we have done anything wrong at all and feel stressed being given out to basically.
Not sure what I’m looking for here kind of wanted to vent/ see what others thoughts are

Our upstairs neighbour regularly stamps on their floor (our ceiling) to let us know, in a very passive aggressive way, that our kids, aged 2 and 3, are making too much noise. They have also written us a note saying we need to take them out more. We live in a place where it is regularly below -25 degrees celsius. We’ve also been in lockdown and also recently had to isolate due to Covid. I have not responded to them but if they do, I’m just going to tell them I’m sorry that they are so intolerant. Our kids are not doing anything wrong and I have no intention of telling them to be quiet in their own home. (Not that it is even possible to control the noise two toddlers make). They aren’t even at home most of the week because they go to nursery. Whereas I can hear the upstairs neighbours at all hours and it doesn’t bother me at all.

Don’t worry about your neighbour, they’re obviously an arsehole.

Bloody hell, send him to stay at my house for a few days.

Two houses along, the man leaves for work at 5.30 am 7 days a week and drives a noisy diesel 4x4. House behind has a dog that they let out at 6am and it barks non-stop for at least 10 minutes. NDNs have water running for an hour or so just the other side of the party wall at 4.30 am a couple of times a week (I assume they're running their washing machine on off-peak leccy). We frequently have noisy builders lorries delivering very early, yesterday there was one with a crane on delivering bricks at 7.45 am and it's a rare event for no-one to have a supermarket delivery soon after 8 at a weekend.

Even when it's silent, the house across the road has blinding lights that come on at the slightest movement within 50 yards, illuminate all round the edges of my bedroom curtains and wake me up.

It's no wonder I fall asleep on the sofa most evenings.

If your neighbour thinks there's something you can do to stop your baby crying, I'd ask him to show you what it is, OP. You could make a fortune by sharing his secret.

What a twat.