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WIBU to ask my NDN to move their child's cot?

33 replies

SpareChangeDownTheSofa · 05/07/2017 08:20

My NDN have a child about 1.5 who is still in a cot and due to this she is unable to get out of her bed, however it seems she has toys in her cot (the heavy plastic kind).

Since her cot is pushed up against the shared wall and her room is next to mine, WIBU to ask my neighbours to move her cot away from the shared wall until she has grown out of the phase she is currently in, which is banging these toys against the shared wall in the early hours?

It happens every morning from about half 5 and keeps waking me up and has recently started in the past couple of weeks. The walls are thin and I've always been able to hear normal noise from NDN like conversations/baby crying that is reasonable in my eyes but this banging seems a little excessive to me.

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JaneEyre70 · 05/07/2017 09:20

I don't think it's unreasonable to just kindly point out that it's waking you up early.....they perhaps can't hear the noise from their room?

Odoreida · 05/07/2017 09:30

YANBU but as other posters have said she may be tired and sensitive - and it is a bit of an odd request somehow - so just be really REALLY nice about it, and try and help as much as possible.

EB123 · 05/07/2017 09:36

YANBU as the owner of a 15 month old who also likes to wake at 5-5.30am at the moment I think it is totally reasonable to ask and I would have no issue with it.

laurzj82 · 05/07/2017 09:41

YANBU as long as it's in a nice way. We moved my daughter's cot when she was younger for this reason (not asked to)

SlothMama · 05/07/2017 10:04

YANBU To ask, it's a reasonable request!

firawla · 05/07/2017 10:08

I think yabu to ask them to move the cot, as it's normally not possible to rearrange the whole room, but yanbu to ask them to swap her cot toys for soft ones while she's in this stage. They probably don't realise

Branleuse · 05/07/2017 10:12

yanbu.

Polly2345 · 07/07/2017 07:05

YANBU to ask, just bear in mind they're probably exhausted and might be sensitive. Also, practically they might not he able to do it.

I'm fairly certain our last neighbour moved to another bedroom when our LO went through a phase of waking in the night with a hacking cough! I felt terrible but we could have put her cot anywhere in the room and he still would have got woken up by us.

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