To want to punch people who talk loudly near my pram

[pleasethanks]

It takes me ages to get my DD to nap and I often have to go out walking for a LOOOOOONG time so she sleeps. So often some loud person shouts after their child/dog just as I have managed to get her sleep. It gets on my nerves, it really does!

OP - I have cheerfully and creatively committed murder in my head a loud people who threaten to wake PFB. This includes:

People whose cars are too loud
People who cough/sneeze/sniff at the wrong moment
Tappers
Heavy footed people
People with unreasonably loud laughs
People who want to watch TV with the sound on
People with phones
People who wank to talk
DH.

So I sympathise!!

Our elderly next door neighbour had someone from Help the aged to cut her grass in the summer. For years, every Monday naptime was ruined by the sound of his cranky old petrol mower and I loathed the poor, inoffensive man!

She died last week and I'm actually sorry I won't hear that mower again :(

I used to pound the streets, as you put it, with DS2. i would often walk to my parents house by which time he had nicely fallen asleep - only to be woken by my Dad stepping out the back door and shouting 'YOU GOT HIM OF TO SLEEP THEN!' - the man never has had volume control

ROAr
so funny OP
I can relate to the all-consuming fuming anger when someone wakes your sleeping baby

Ha, I know exactly what you mean! Completely irrational, of course, but I feel just the same when my DS is asleep (eventually) in his pram. Also when someone beeps their horn or something. Tongue in cheek sure, but true all the same!!

"people who wank to talk" - interesting method of communication, Psammead....

This is meant to be a joke, yes?

Otherwise may I suggest a hefty application of gin for those over-sensitive nerves of yours.

Oh bless you I feel your pain - you have one of those incredibly light sleeping PFBs too. Some babies sleep through anything, others just don't sleep through anything, everyone gives you that sodding hoover anecdote and the stress of it all is enough to drive you demented!
It is of course totally irrational and unreasonable and I would never ever dream of ever saying anything just as I'm sure you wouldn't, because it is just normal life, but like you I couldn't help silently seething at the time simply because it used to take DS so long to drop off. I used to remember feeling my blood pressure soar each time he was woken back up again. With us it was normally sirens (I used to flee from them into sidestreets like some sort of felon), traffic and in the park - sodding leaf blowers. Mind he gave up napping in his buggy full stop at about five months. Sigh. Until then, 'this too shall pass, this too shall pass'...

Oh fuck. RustyBear damn you for reading my post!

Rod for own back! I hoovered round my daughter the first week we came home, I can still do that now and she's three!!

BUT different strokes for different folks! Your baby, do what you want! xx