Neighbours alarm driving me potty!

[Gralexi]

My neighbour is a bloody lovely lady. We get on really well and she looks out for us. We have lived here for a year and she's always been very kind to us. The type of woman who takes our bins out of we forget and we do the same for her etc.

One thing which drives me insane... she has an alarm which goes off every morning at 5am. I can still hear it now. She's left her phone downstairs, AGAIN and it's been going off for an hour, AGAIN. She does this all the time and I'm downstairs with a 10 week old baby who had just fallen asleep, and I can't sleep because her alarm is going off in the background.

How do I approach her about this? I know it sounds like an easy solve but I don't want to make her feel bad, and don't want to make her totally paranoid about it if she does occasionally forget. I also don't want her to become paranoid about the fact that we can hear her very easily...

Wwyd?

Could you ve in a different room?

I can't. It's the only room we have that's not DSDs bedroom or the nursery which is so small it can't fit a bed in...

You pop next door and go 'hi neighbour, I hope you're well today! I just wondered if we could have a quick chat - I'm more than certain that you had no idea however we can hear your alarm going off in the morning and it's really disturbing me, especially with Baby Gralexi up and down in the night. Would you be kind enough to turn the alarm down/turn it off as quickly as you can/opt for a softer tone to see whether that will help?'

She will go 'oh I am terribly sorry Gralexi I will sort that now!'

And everything will be absolutely fine. It's honestly not an issue between good neighbours, she definitely doesn't even realise.

@PolPotNoodle you're right. I'm just so anxious and know that I PERSONALLY would be mortified if someone told me this about myself (probably irrationally so) so I presume others would react the way I do.

Having anxiety is exhausting. It makes every decision I make a huge deal.

I can still hear it now. It's been going through off for an hour and 20 mins. I'm going close to crazy as am so sleep deprived 🤪

Is it an iPhone?
If you call the phone, the alarm switches off! (I know this isn’t a long term solution but it saved me at uni when people would sleep through their alarms!)

@Username24682 I have no idea 🙈

How does she not hear here it if you can ??? !!!

Have a good catch up about xmas and new year but slip in ‘oh I’ve been meaning to ask a favour....

I would pop around now and see if she is ok.

@newcupcake because she leaves it downstairs on a counter at the back of the house, the other side of the wall (next to my head) and her bedroom is upstairs at the front.