To ask the bed in front to keep it down?

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There's a baby in the bed opposite with their mum and dad

They are playing something really loud of their telly they've rented, or phones. I don't know which

Trouble is, it's not just loud. It's frightening me. It's a TV series I've seen bits of before and it frightened me/freaks me out

Would I be unreasonable to ask a nurse to get them to keep it down?

It's just my baby daughter on the ward with me, otherwise. No other patients

AIBU?

You are correct.

Fact. Just read this thread and it’s proof.

People = Shit as Slipknot would say… which coincidentally would be an excellent song to blast at them for a taste of their own medicine

These Oxbridge middle class types are often the worse. So entitled and believe they can do as they like. I’d have got in his face or when he leaves I’d give wifey some grief.

Selfish twats.

I’d think the only twat here is you

Just spent a night in hospital and was horrified that 2 people on my ward had devices playing loud music / loud radio jingles . The last thing you need when you’re ill is to be exposed to this. Cretins

The staff should ask them to turn it down. When I was in Harefield the television was free but you had to buy headphones to listen to it. Each patient had to buy their own sterile headphones to prevent cross-infection. The other people are just selfish ignorant bar stewards!

Rude.

She's on a ward with a poorly DC. What was the need for that?

Don't think it's possible she might be a bit vulnerable at all?

Just go over and ask them to turn it down as u don't want it waking your ill child . Most of time there more reasonable if u ask yourself rather than getting someone else to.

If that fails request to be moved

Actually it's only one parent usually allowed on ward and I would go over ans say excuse its very loudly baby is unsettled can you please turn that down and see what they say what difference does it make if your patient or not you still need peace and try get some sleep

Clearly two parents are allowed on this ward

OP posted this yesterday and did speak to the man herself. I wish people would take 30 seconds to read the OP's posts.

Wow really? Were you the school bully or have you just started recently?

Thanks for your helpful advice, it must be such a comfort.i bet your cure depression by reminding people they could just "cheer up" as well! Thanks!

She's stated she's on her own and it already sounds like she's in a stressful situation and other people are adding to it. So you thought you'd call her a "drama llama"?

I find when arseholes are playing something loud on speaker, a good blast of some classical music or opera soon gets the message across.

Her daughter was sleeping.

Tell a staff member

@girlmom21 Sleeping through the noise the OP is complaining about. So I’m sure a bit more won’t hurt

@FixTheBone we don't care who starts as long as they stick to the rules. We tend to find it is usually the mums that stay though. We have to write it down every night!

Hospital staff are often unwilling to ask people to turn tv volume down and it's quite normal to allow highly inappropriate programmes to be watched loudly on children's wards, especially if it's on paid-for sets that make money for the Trust.
It's wrong and hospital policy needs to change.

OP, tell staff that this is affecting your anxiety and is not ok for your daughter to hear as she wakes. You may get blank looks and excuses though.

When I was in hospital with my son when he was a baby a similar thing happened. By this point I was several days without sleep, so quite frankly didn’t care what people thought. I just went up to the couple and politely asked them to turn the TV down as it was stopping me sleeping. They turned it down and I went back to bed. Hope your child is OK.

OK 🙄

God, I get so sick of people who make a noise and don't care. There really ought to be strict laws on noise pollution, especially on a small, crowded island like this, where we're jammed on top of one another. Right now I can hear boy racers. In fact, I hear them all day and most of the night. I am SO sick of this – just night and day the screeching of their engines and the awful explosions of their modified exhausts. It's illegal, and people have been complaining for years, but NOTHING is ever done about it.

My suggestion is to talk to the ward sister and explain that the noise is disturbing and that you have asked them politely to turn the sound down. If they become abusive towards either yourself or the sister then she has the power to have at least one of them removed and refused admission. I also suggest that you don't follow the tit for tat suggestion as all that will happen is that the children will suffer as the noise gets louder and/or you both will be removed.

Sadly, in today's world, more and more people are showing their selfish side.

Why the Dad?

Got to speak up. I remember being taken into a ward at 3am In morning and the 2 residents there were having a really loud, totally unucolous conversation and I felt so ill and just wanted to try to sleep. As an emergency, didnt have ear plugs etc. Why are people so selfish really, just shut the fuck up and turn down your volume, it's a hospital ffs! X