Neighbour complaining about jumparoo

[SeaLeaf]

We live in a first floor apartment. Downstairs neighbour is complaining about 'thumping' noise when baby goes in jumparoo! I've put a foam mat under it and tried moving it to other rooms but she still complains! We have wood floors everywhere and I prefer to keep it in kitchen so I can cook!

He's 7months and uses it for about 30mins at a time, usually 7am, 9am, 1pm, 3pm, 6pm.

I feel she should put up with it, you can't expect silence in a building with families and what will happen when he's older and starts running and jumping?
Why should he be denied playtime in his favourite toy?

What do others think?

[Toxicity]

YABU and really selfish, you know it is disturbing your neighbour but are going to continue anyway. Put carpet in the room or lose the jumparoo.

[coconutpie]

You are being so U regarding neighbour AND putting your baby into a jumperoo for 2.5 hours a day. You aren't supposed to put them in for more than 15-20 min at a time and only a couple of times a day, not 5 times a day of half hour slots. Your poor baby's hips. Get a playpen with some new toys or buy a sling - sticking your baby in a jumperoo for that amount of time is not helping anyone.

[mummymeister]

OP is long gone with no comment to make. meanwhile, baby is in the jumperoo bang, bang, banging on the floor. poor neighbours must be demented by it.

wish I knew who they were. I would suggest that they went to env. health and got a notice served.

[JakeBallardswife]

We had something similar when DS was younger ( and DD but she refused to go in it but anyway) he loved it. But even on our stone kitchen floor you could still hear the continuous banging and vibrations. 7 am is too early though, could you limit the frequency and make sure there is paddding underneath? Foam / Duvets etc

[VoldysGoneMouldy]

You're hugely unreasonable. I don't think you have any idea at all how loud that will be, although I get the impression that even if you did, you wouldn't be bothered.

7am for a child of any age to be jumping on the floor us hugely out of line, and to effectively be letting him jump for two and a half hours would infuriate anyone. It's also really not good for his hip or back.

Yes of course you have to expect some noise if you live in connected housing, but you also have to consider others when it comes to making noise.

Don't be so entitled.

Buy a sling if he won't settle by himself.

[quicklydecides]

Your poor baby must be bored stupid.

[Jessbow]

What does he have on his feet? clogs?

Put a rug/folded blanket, piece of polystyrene at a pinch under the whole thing.

7am is unsociable in any case.

[luciole15]

Wooden floors are antisocial whatever floor they're on. We were fine when downstairs was carpeted. Once laminated started to get 'thuddy', but the next owner ripped it up and sanded floor throughout entire flat and stomps around in his clogs. And their kids go up and down on ride-ons and run about loudly a lot. Not good. So wooden floors with no sound insulation not just antisocial on first floor flats and higher.

Along the street in a similar property my neighbour can hear Jumperoo two floors up. Makes whole property reverberate.

I feel I must have deprived my son as well as half the street by not having one!

[ImNotThatGirl]

Is this a reverse? Nobody can do this and seriously think they're being reasonable, surely?!

[lorelei9here]

quickly "Your poor baby must be bored stupid."

this made me lol. I have an image of the baby thinking "not that fecking jumparoo AGAIN...oh well, I'll put a smile on, she means well".

[Noregretsatall]

Years ago when I was first married, I lived in a first floor flat with noise co,ing from above,below and the sides! It was awful, no soundproofing at all. Then a family with a young baby moved in upstairs which was bare floorboards throughout, it was even worse! No jumparoo in those days but when the baby starting crawling, we'd had enough and sold up. You could hear EVERYTHING (including their rows late at night!) It sounded as though he was going to come through the ceiling when he was crawling. Obvs you can't avoid normal movement, but loud thudding 5 times a day for half an hour at a time?! You're having a laugh?! I bet your poor neighbours are just nervously waiting for the next bout! Their nerves must be shredded. YABVVVU.

[FuzzyOwl]

When babies really go for it in the jumperoo it is noisy and I have carpets but can hear it on a different floor, so if you have the music on as well (which makes babies jump faster and harder) it would be horrendous living underneath. I think yabu especially at 7am. I also think you should be spending more time doing other things with your baby instead of effectively trapping him in something for 2.5 hours every day!

[Fratelli]

Try doing other things with your baby. Go out for walks or to softplay or whatever. Play with the toys with him. That amount of time in the jumparoo isn't good. Do things whilst he naps.

[SaggingTits]

Yes she will have to put up with general family noise. However if you went into her flat you would be shocked at the noise. Wood flooring I awful for sound. I have in in my living room and hate any banging/jumping/running in there because I know how loud it is for my neighbour.

I think you need to limit the time she's in it, and drop the 7am.

[nonicknameseemsavailable]

I have lived in quite a few flats over the years and when you are upstairs you are blissfully unaware of how loud you are to the people downstairs. I honestly thought you were no longer allowed to have wooden floors in upstairs flats now but I must be wrong.

We are now in a house which is a relief as I don't need to worry about the kids disturbing other people but one of my children went through a patch of lying in bed in the evening and banging her foot on the wall. downstairs it sounded like she was whacking the wall with a hammer, upstairs she actually wasn't doing it very hard or loud at all. Depending on the structure of the building sound really can travel and frankly if I had to listen to a rhythmic thud from a neighbour at those times I think I would go mad. I am currently listening to our neighbour doing what I assume is chopping wood for his log burner, it is ridiculously loud and really very very irritating but it is 2pm so I am going to go go out for a walk anyway in a minute and hopefully when I come back he will have run out of wood to chop.

We never had a jumperoo or anything like that, no space in the tiny house we were in at that age, I am trying to think what mine did at 7 months old. I think to be honest we were out and about on walks a lot. they wouldn't have been contained at 7 months, they were crawling/shuffling/cruising around and would sit playing with things.

is it possible as well that the 7am bounce is over her bedroom? I lived in one flat where there was an alarm clock used to go off for 20 minutes at 6:20am every day including weekends. i am sure it must have been in the back of the top of a cupboard or something, it drove me mad, I never found it in my flat but I never did manage to reach the very top of one of the fitted cupboards as the ceilings were so high. I assume it was in someone else's flat but whereever it was it drove me to distraction.

[GoodFreyedaySusie]

you have to try and eliminate the noise you can control when you are in an upstairs flat. because it will be hell for those downstairs if not. children are bloody noisy.

[MrsTerryPratchett]

I had a high need, very active baby and I loved the Jumperoo. However, DD had a hip click so I asked the HCPs and no more than 20 minutes ONCE a day is recommended. It's not good for their hips and it's not good for their development.

I'm in Canada so maybe the guidelines are different.

[SauvignonBlanche]

Your landlord IBU for having hard flooring in a first floor flats and YABU over the 7am bounce, that's taking the piss!
Your neighbour IBU for comparing about the noise during the rest of the day.

[nanetterose]

When my little girl was a baby we lived in the US. We had an 'excersaucer' - the baby spins around to different activities. I don't remember any bouncing. Can you buy those here? It was virtually silent.

[Cheby]

YABU OP. But I had a baby like that too so I sympathise.

I strongly recommend getting a sling or ergonomic carrier and learning to put baby up on your back. It's safe from around 6 months old. Then you can just get on with life and LO will be happy being carried. It saved my sanity.

I also did most of our dinners in the slow cooker when DD was small; 10 mins prep in the morning, chuck it all in and it was ready to eat when DH came home from work.

Maybe try and get outside a bit more with LO? My Velcro baby was much happier when out and about on the move.

[BitterAndOnlySlightlyTwisted]

Wooden floors in an upstairs property is the work of the devil. The sooner this fashion for hard floors declines, the better.

Your poor neighbour! They can probably hear your every step 24/7. A jumparoo would be beyond the ruddy Pale

[MrsMushrooms]

Living below wooden floors is a nightmare, people saying it can't be that loud need to experience it! So 30mins of thumping 4 times a day would drive me crazy, sorry! I'd deal with the afternoon ones but 7am would drive me crazy and 9am if DH were on nights or we were trying to have a lie in would also be unreasonable - maybe stick to the afternoons or try some extra padding?

[HarveySchlumpfenburger]

YY to being cumulative MrsDV.

A couple of days of this probably wouldn't bother me. After a couple of weeks the repetitive thumping would drive me nuts.

If you live in a flat, you have to make compromises. That means both or you. If you insist on making your neighbour make all the compromises, then you will find yourself with them either taking revenge or with a noise abatement order.

[Roddas]

No 7am jumperooing then all of the following;
Carpets
Rugs
Foam mat

[SpaceDinosaur]

Why not say to your neighbour that you've tried various sound proofing but would really appreciate it if they would let you in for a bit whilst baby is in the jumparoo (when your DH is home and looking after!) so that you can appreciate how the sound travels as you may be able to come up with a better sound proofing solution when you understand what aspects of the noise are travelling.