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do neighbour's screamign babies annoy you?

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Kelly1978 · 07/06/2006 10:14

Just wanted to do a quick poll and see if I'm being unreasonable. No-one has complained yet, but I'm feelign a bit guilty that dt2 is screaming pretty much non stop for the second day running (teething). Now it's warm, we are out in the garden most of the day prob around 6 hours plus. I've not had a garden for years so making the most of it, but worried he is drivign the neighbours nuts - he's def driving me up the wall! One side is an elderly retired couple. I really don't want to sit in the house where they drive me even more crazy.

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Kelly1978 · 07/06/2006 10:15

and that should have been the neighbours' babies, i know! Blush

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Jasnem · 07/06/2006 10:40

Never bothered me, but I've had 3 of my own so wouldn't really be in a position to complain. The only neighbour noise I dislike is the man 5 doors down who shouts at his kids in the garden (alot)

My parents live nextdoor to a couple with a baby and toddler and love it. It's part of life for most of us.

PrettyCandles · 07/06/2006 10:46

When we lived in a flat, the downstairs neighbour's baby had bad colic for several months, and we heard a lot of crying. There's no way on earth I would have complained - we all know how tough it is with a crying baby.

I don't think you even need to apologise to anyone, especially if it's not night-time crying in a bedroom of a semi-detached house, where the crying might possibly bother a sleeping neighbour.

Have you tried Bickipegs, or frozen carrots/bananas? They seemed to help my two. And there's no harm in a drop of Calpol or Baby Nurofen if the LO is suffering.

speedymama · 07/06/2006 11:56

Kelly, my DTS are 27mo and I am concious of their screaming when I'm in the garden with them. On one side is a childless woman who lives with her elderly mother and they like to sit in their garden on a warm day. I don't like intruding on their tranquility so I do try and hush the boys if they get to loud.

However, what really annoys me are the plonkers on the other side. He has 5 kids in total (3 from first marriage and youngest is 5yo) and when they are all at the house, it is like living next door to a zoo. The thing is, DH and I have never complained (we have lived there for 6 years)because we figured that is what it is like with that many children. However, since the twins have been born, they have banged on our walls a number of times when they have been crying excessively, particularly in the early morning. I cannot believe that they have the cheek to do that considering the cacophony that they produce. If it wasn't for the genteel neighbours on the other side, I would make the boys create as much noise as possible to give them a taste of their own medicineAngry. I can't bear inconsiderate, selfish idiots like that. Hence, within 3 years we will move into a detached house. Then the boys can make all the racket without fear of some neanderthal man and his tribe banging on the wall.

Tinker · 07/06/2006 11:58

ditto ditto ditto to speedymama's situation Angry

speedymama · 07/06/2006 11:59

What really fires me up about this couple is that they use to turn their stereo on full blast at 6am in the morningShock, even when their youngest was a baby. How dare they then bang on the walls when my babies are crying at that time Angry!

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Kelly1978 · 07/06/2006 15:47

I would love a detached. We live in a semi, but the dts are in the bedroom away from the ajoining house, and the neighbours have commented how they never hear them crying - well not until now! They are a nice couple, they give lolipops to the older two, and chat, etc. I just do feel concious of how much noise four young children make, and although I can try to quieten the older two a bit, it's pretty hard with the dts.
I might get soem bickipegs, the only thing that is really quitening them at the moment is biscuits, and I hate keep giving them loads. They are supposed to be harder aren't they?

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PrettyCandles · 07/06/2006 16:00

Bickipegs are very hard. Until they have all their front teeth one peg will last days! Also no sugar - don't taste them, they're vile, but LOs seem to like them. Ginger nuts are quite good as teethers as well, but loads of sugar of course.

fruitful · 07/06/2006 16:10

Before I had kids myself, I'd have been annoyed (in a blissfully-ignorant "can't you feed it or something" way). Now, I hear my neighbours' 12-week-old screaming and I think this...

Aagh! Which one is that? Where are they both?

Oh. That's a little baby.

Not one of mine! Hooray, I don't have to do anything.

And then I sit back and feel glad that I don't have a 12-wk-old to look after. Grin. On the whole, I'm quite grateful to them for making me feel less broody.

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Kelly1978 · 07/06/2006 16:18

lol @ fruitful!

pc, the boys are 14 months and do have 8 front teeth each, so maybe not. It is their canines which are causing the problems now. They were fine with the last few, but these ones have been the worst yet. They've both had diarrheoa because of it too, which has made them sore and even more grouchy.

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PrettyCandles · 07/06/2006 16:25

Try them in any case.

The canines don't generally come in next, they generally come in after the premolars which are b*ggers (I think because of the width).

Repeat the mantra: "This will end." and look forward to the glass of wine once they've gone to bed.

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Kelly1978 · 07/06/2006 16:33
Sad It will end... and they are going to bed in 2 hours... but then I have two weeks of study to catch up on...sob!

dt1 clamps his mouth shut, but dt2 def has very white gums when the canines should be. I hope they do come through next or I might have a long wait! Will try bikipegs tho.

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MadamePlatypus · 07/06/2006 20:19

No. I tune out as soon as I realise it is nothing to do with DS. Can't imagine being annoyed by it.

nannyme · 07/06/2006 20:59

Our kids are in the garden all the time and sometimes are, what I call, 'too noisy' at which point I have the option to add to the auditory assault by turning into a fishwife and moaning at them to be quiet or let them carry on. It's a tough call...

That said, our lovely neighbours actually came round to say how much they ENJOY hearing the children playing and even went as far as to say we are a lovely family and that it is fab that the children are out in the fresh air instead of on playstations.

They musn't have heard Felix (4) in his "fcuking idiot" verbal phase then. Thank god!

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