Neighbours!!

[MyBambi]

Basically for the last two hours my DD has been crying on and off.She has been teething and for some reason her reflux is at her too.She just four months.

We live in a flat,but it was a mansion renovated into flats.They aren't too small,but our neighbors are not to happy about the baby crying and are stamping or jumping and dropping things really loudly on the floor over us.And walking up and down their flat stamping the ground out of it.

Normally I am use to it,but today it's really bad and really am not able for it.And it gets worse when they invite the friends over who join in.Shouting,stamping acting crazy..What would you do??

Call the police, you’ve a young kid in the house- contact the council even if you have bought your home put complaint in, find out if they rent if they do contact the landlord

MOST IMPORTANTLY- keep a diary, and try record it

@Benandhollysmum
What would the police do though?

Good idea I will keep record,but the only thing is that my partners work is renting this for us so we don't know the landlord personally.

TEll them to quit the noise as it’s harrassment

Are you sure the noise upstairs is in response to your child's noise? Have you spoken to them?

Find out, because to be honest that sounds scary and not normal..most people know babies cry and tend to just turn telly up a few notches but not jump on floors that’s mental..what happens next, they start on your door ect..

Call the police?

WTF???

Sorry but if someone was harassing me by jumping up and down and getting their pals to join in I’d be calling cops, because she’s in House herself what if they start on her or it goes beyond jumping on floors..

Benandholly for goodness sake you can't call the police over 'what ifs'. They just don't have the time or resources for that.

They're far too busy dealing with crime

It's no wonder it can take anything up to 40 minutes to get through to 101, if everyone's calling them for things they can do nothing about.

What crime are they dealing with? Ah right to move cars because a bus can’t get down a residential street!!

Try and ignore them (I know that's easier said than done) and focus on comforting your little one. Keep a diary of what they do, do they only do it when DD cries? She's only tiny, and little ones do cry at this age, maybe pop up during the day and explain?

Regardless of what these people say, it’s harrassment OP it’s a noise nuisance..

What crime are they dealing with? Ah right to move cars because a bus can’t get down a residential street!!

Yes.

That's exactly what the police do, day in and day out...right across the country.

I have no actual idea what you're talking about, but then it sounds like you don't either.

Call the police because the neighbours are stamping around in their own flat? MN is a strange place

To be honest I was in an upstairs maisonette and my neighbours had a baby and dog. We would never hear them unless we were outside trying to go up the stairs. However they used to be able to hear my partner pacing as he is a pacer. It seemed we weren't loud per se but they could hear everything..

Are you sure its in reaction to your baby crying and not just that they don't realise how loud their feet on the floorboards are?

Tbh I would go up and knock. Explain every time they make sudden dickhead noises it wakes up the baby and so the cycle starts again

Is Benandhollysmum on glue/

They weren't doing it before she was born.But when we brought her home the first month was hard because she wouldn't sleep on her own and her reflux was extremely bad,she was crying all the time.It was frustrating but it didn't help with the neighbours.DD has a very loud cry when something is wrong with her.Trust me if you were here you would understand it's being done on purpose.

I want to knock but they have their friends over and I dunno if they are drinking so I will wait till the morning.

I hate confrontation,But because I haven't said anything It's seems to be getting out of hand..

Babies cry. I have lived next door to two new borns who cried non stop. I was lucky, I could sleep in another room or out on headphones. The poor parents had to actually try to figure out what was wrong and fix it.

You must be really stressed and these eejits are making it worse.

Have you met them? Could you pop up, crying babe in arms, and say you were concerned they were annoyed about baby crying. Say you are doing all you can and if you could mak your baby stop you obviously would!

It seems odd that their friends are going along with this - harassing th mother of a crying baby? DO you know any of the other neighbours-most peopl would fall over themselves to help harassed new parents.

I didn't say I was going to ring the police.

No I don't know them but I will pop over to them in the morning and chat to them about it.Yes it gets stressful when you are trying to deal with one thing then have to deal something petty..We normally keep to ourselves tbh..