Quick note under door..?

[ethicsandpearls]

Just moved into a ground floor flat with ds (10mo) and he has gone from a 7-7 quiet & non screaming baby to a 7-330 (scream scream scream scream) & then again at 6am (scream) when he wakes and won't go back to sleep. The only thing that will settle him is boob- which is fine- he scoffs away for 20mins, falls asleep and so I take him back to his cot where he sleeps till 6ish. This then plays havoc with his daytime naps as he's so tired & then he screams again. Poor little thing is obviously unsettled by moving and I'm sure this will all go back to normal in a few weeks.

However, in the interim, does anyone think that it might be courteous to pop a note under the door of the upstairs flat to apologise for the screaming in the night? It's obviously waking the person up as I can hear footsteps about 5mins after ds starts.

Yes it would probably be good for future neighbourly harmony.
I gave next door a bottle of wine when our dd1 was going through a similar phase following jet lag- she also had previously slept through..

Oh you poor soul!

I would definitely put a wee note to your neighbour; and just explain that you have recently moved in and your wee one is very unsettled at the moment! I am sure they will understand, noise (whether it is washing machines, music, tv, people talking or children playing/ crying) comes with living in a flat, but I think it is always good form to acknowledge it and maybe hand in a box of chocolates or something once he has settled down a bit to say thanks for being understanding!

We had this with my DD when we moved, and discovered that it was the noise of the boiler coming on, so we changed the settings and things got better! Although we did have to stay up most of the night to work out what it was!!!

Good luck

Excellent. Not sure who it is who lives there though so might hold off on the flowers/wine apology till I know for sure. If I hear footsteps when ds wakes from his stupidly early morning nap I might go up there with ds and apologise in person. With the logic that you can't be rude to someone carrying a little person ( ha what a load of bollocks but I live in hope ) Otherwise will do the note under door. Thanks!

I'd go up there and look as frazzled as possible. I went round to all our neighbours to apologise for night noise and they were all surprisingly nice and understanding about it. One even banged on the door at 4am with a cup of tea for me and some company.
I've been blessed with nice neighbours.

I think it's a great idea ad would really help. When I was heavily pregnant and up all night in our flat, I was sleeping in the spare room and unknowingly walking over a squeaky floorboard all night. Our neighbours underneath put a note under the door and I went down looking all fat and apologised, they were really nice about it.