Street party noise vs non-sleeping child

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1 year old struggling to sleep. Street party music and excitable shouting is very loud.

Am I being a massive fucking grump here?

(So I don’t drip-feed... he never struggles to sleep, it’s also combatted by the fact he’s not in a sleeping bag because his room is mega hot and I can’t open the windows because of the noise)

Yes.

I get it's hard, but yes you are being a grump. It's one day and the most fun (for a worthy reason) folks have had in weeks.

Can you pop his cot in another room for the night? x

Yes, your child does not trump the need for people to have a good time in the midst of a pandemic, sorry.

Its 8 pm YABU
If its still going at 11 then YANBU

Nah, anything to do with sleep is fair game when you have little ones. I would be grumpy too!

Obviously if I didn’t have small kids I’d be out there making noise too haha. But for this short season of life everyone just needs to pipe down after 7pm hahaha.

It’s annoying isn’t it? But I can’t get too mad about it, it doesn’t happen every day 🤷🏼‍♀️ I think in this pandemic people deserve a bit of a good time

A little bit. It's a one-off and a Friday night. Can you stick some white noise or calming music on? Fan?

No id be annoyed too. My DS is 1 and he doesnt always sleep well. Took longer to get him to sleep today, he woke up after 40 minutes, back to sleep again and 2 ridiculously loud motorbikes raced past the house. So loud it almost woke him up again despite shut windows and loud white noise. If he did wake up id have chased them up the road screaming lol.

Oh and maybe just switch him to another room for the night? We've moved our DD around sometimes for similar reasons.

YABU it's one day and it's 8pm

Yes am thinking of moving him to the back of the house. Debating whether that would confuse him more... I guess we’ll see how late it goes.

I just wish they’d move into someone’s back garden.

Not surprised by the answers... I do feel like I’m being unreasonably grumpy! It’s guess it’s just hard to give a shit when I’m the one in here dealing with this battle.

I dont think anyone is being unreasonable. You for wanting to stuff their mouths with their own bunting and them for having a party on a sunny friday. Sorry not very helpful. But I would try putting his cot at the other side of the house or White noise etc

YABU

Completely with OP on this! YANBU! It's been fun all day since around lunch time where I am. Love the community spirit at a time of crisis, it's been lovely! But I do think people should be mindful of those who have small children or are no longer taking part in the festivities. We're lucky, our 2 year old would sleep though an apocalypse so it's not to bad for us in that respect but I've myself am now winding down so I find it a bit ignorant of people.

Yes, it's a one off event.

ReignsMummyX I know what you mean, there’s only a handful of people left from the dozens earlier and yet they’re making ten times more noise with the screeching and casually turning the music up every few minutes. I had nothing against this afternoon (even when I struggled to get him to nap) but I do find these clingers a bit ignorant.

Not that I don’t disagree with PP that I’m being miserable mind!

YABU. It’s a one off.

You know you are being grumpy. You know they're allowed to have fun and make noise. Still doesn't help your stress levels when you have a young child who wont sleep!

YANBY to be quietly fed up. Y would BE if you asked them to stop.

We use white noise for this reason - would that be a possibility?

Maybe accept that your baby won’t sleep tonight as early as you’d like, but on the bright side he might be so tired tomorrow he’ll give himself a lie in

YANBU.. It would annoy me too! In fact it was one of my concerns when we moved into our current house on a fairly condensed housing estate. Am so thankful that my fears were unfounded and that (touch wood) everyone seems to like their peaceful evenings.

And yes, second the white noise. DC are now 2 and nearly 4 and they have both had a fan in their room on every night since they were babies!

No, OP you're definitely not being unreasonable. Had the same here tonight. Idiots dancing around in the street, drunk and disturbing my DS. I rang 101.

It's infuriating. People need to grow up.

YANBU for being annoyed about it.
I am grumpy every Thursday 'clap for carers' when the neighbours decide that 'clapping' also includes 'blowing ridiculously loud horns' right outside our house where 11 month DS is sleeping. The same DS who is extremely vulnerable, shielding and has pulmonary hypertension which makes it hard for him to breathe when he crys. The horn always makes him cry. The neighbours know our situation too.

YABU.

People have had precious little fun recently, it's a one-off and it's not even that late. Try some white noise for your child.

NagevMama Your neighbours are pretty disgusting for knowing about your situation and not caring!

Thanks to everyone for suggesting white noise, it was a bit too loud for that. We had a fan on anyway and Ollie the Owl couldn’t drown them out. But he fell asleep eventually!