To think if your child spends most of the night screaming, you don't go camping

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And if he doesn't usually do that, you still don't bugger off and leave him with his GPs (who appear to be proponents of CIO) when he's still of an age to be shrieking for his mother all night. Which is why I don't leave my 2yo. I've given up trying to sleep and I've got to chase my two around till bloody sunset now

Parents were here yesterday having some birthday thing all together, then they left.

They are probably glamping up the hill for their birthday having a lovely time.

I've been camping plenty, this was near constant shrieking and crying for mummy from about 7 till 7. Not normal child-related camping disturbance.

I am very very tired and this is is the first day of our summer holiday so yes I'm annoyed. But just venting. And it is irritating that while I would love a night away from both DC, I haven't done it because this is what would happen.

Though you could decide to go ahead and leave the child anyway, still no need to do it where everyone else has to suffer.

The kid has an obvious inherent aversion to camping, like 90% of the population.

It's funny, I am not obviously the sort but I do like camping. With a nice loo and shower block close at hand with phone charging and wi fi. And no rain or wind or constantly screaming toddlers. Nearly ticked all the boxes here.

We have been camping many times and never experienced this, yes there's always some noise in the early hours but not a child screaming all night - I personally would have put the child in the buggy and gone for a long walk.

Poor child

If the child was mine that is, not suggesting the op should have done so

Another word.... alcohol
You can't judge based on one night maybe its the first time camping maybe they have sen maybe they were in pain maybe the gp were whispering to calm the little one and having been camping with kids being very little (weeks old in one case) i have every sympathy for them.
If you want silence from others when camping go wild camping in the woods or somewhere remote. You can't expect silence on a campsite just like you can't expect kids not to be awake at crack of bloody dawn under canvas.

YANBU OP, in your shoes I would be really annoyed too

YANBU at all, this would irritate me too and its inconsiderate of them to leave the child all night - that poor child.

Seriously, if the child was screaming for his mum all night then the GPs should have got the mother, its awful to leave a little one crying like that. They also disturbed other people which is really not on; like some of the other posters have pointed out, if your child is disturbing others then you take them out of the situation for a bit.

I'd be furious with the GPs, listening to a distressed child all night with no way of helping is awful. I hope the parents come back for him sooner rather than later.

If you are in desperate need of a full nights sleep I think a campsite is probably the worst place to be! There will always be someone/something to disturb the peace at a campsite.

YANBU, we went camping when DS was 11mo (for the benefit of 8yo DSS, not us!). He didn't wake that much - though he did always wake early - but when he did wake I was up like a rocket to quieten him down. Some people seem to just take their time, completely unaware of other people around them!

You have been up all night listening to screaming.

Judge away as much as you like.

Taking babies camping shouldn't be allowed, not on a public site anyway! We had a weekend break ruined by this, only 1 mm of nylon between us and a 4/5 month old up 3 times a night. The mother then decided 6am was morning for everyone on the site and sat outside their tent singing to the child while the father cooked a noisy breakfast!

I went camping with DD when she was 18 months. It was one of the stupidest things I've ever done.

Camping and babies just don't mix.

We often go camping with friends who recently had another baby. She was all hung-ho and "babies sleep so much it'll be fine" when we planned a trip last month. It was painful; the baby was just so, so unhappy that we essentially tag-teamed throughout the nights to hold her as being held was the only time she wouldn't cry.

I agree; it's horrible camping and having a shit night's sleep. And the GPs are shitheads for CIO, regardless of where they were. I hope you get a decent rest this evening.

That must have been horrible op. 12 hours of your own child crying is awful, never mind someone else's when you can't make it stop.

The camp we were at this summer had an 11pm to 7am quiet time. The mum in the tent next door asked my kids to stop playing so she could get her children to sleep at 7pm. Fair enough, I thought, her kids were younger than mine, so I got them back in the tent and spent the evening keeping them quiet.

We were all woken at 6am by the child in the next tent screaming at the top of it's lungs. Not upset, the kind of loud shrieking they do when they are awake and being ignored. It went on for two hours.

I'm never going camping again, just because of the noise.

YANBU

If, as you say, it's 12 hours of crying for Mummy and shrieking then as GPs they should, if they can, call the parents, walk the baby in a buggy or drive home.

I know that's harsh and I really do have sympathy - as parents we've all been there. Certainly my MIL is a proponent of letting toddlers cry it out and I (being an arsehole DIL) even went in to comfort my 2.5 year old niece when she was crying blue murder and was left in the bedroom with the door closed and ignored.

I was almost an arsehole again yesterday when a 10 month old baby was screaming and screaming in the heat on the bus whilst her mother was on the phone. I did feel for the mother as she had 2 other kids with her but the little girl was choking on her own tears and disturbing the whole bus.

Perhaps the GP's are used to having the child but have never camped with them before.

How anyone finds camping a fun activity with children I do not know.

Being thick here, what's CIO? And 12 hours? I'd have a sense of humour failure.

And this is reason #651 that I don't camp. Ever.

If we'd been meant to camp, hotels wouldn't have been invented.

YANBU OP. We had the same last year, luckily it was towards the end of our holiday, but it did make us pack up and go home a day earlier.

Babies screaming through the night should not be part and parcel of a camping holiday. Utterly selfish behaviour.

We have a tent in the shed, it hasn't been out since we moved in 2010 - we have a six year old who still regularly wakes in the night. She also has night terrors. We rarely go on holiday nevermind camping. It's not worth the stress nor the embarrassment of disturbing an entire camp site. I hope this family pack up this morning, otherwise I'd be looking for a new site/hotel.

How do you know the family relationship with the baby? Could the "grand parents" be there parents and the "parents" be friends?

Yes babies have only been crying since 2007. It was better in the olden days when they didn't.

This explains a lot. My eldest was born then. He was certainly into crying...

Tbh it doesn't matter whether parents were in the next field of if the OP was wrong and the GPs were the parents. Someone let a small child scream for mummy for 12 hours, that's shitty behaviour.

I'd be annoyed too.

I wonder if the GP were a bit deaf and/or well inebriated so didn't actually get disturbed by the screaming/crying all night.

I would honestly find out the other families plans for tonight because I would be speaking to the campsite owners if it isn't going to be a one off. Even if they had taken the child to sit in the car for a few hours it would have reduced the noise levels a bit for everyone else.

That poor child (and everyone else on the campsite)