A mum has slammed her neighbour for complaining about her young daughter to the council.
Taking to parenting forum Mumsnet, the woman revealed that she was left "disgusted" after her neighbour made a noise compliant about her one-year-old child.
She shared that her daughter has begun waking up at 5am and "screaming" for attention. While the woman said that she and her husband are "trying" to make her stay in bed until 7am, she admitted that it "don't seem to work".
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The mum wrote: "I'm actually disgusted by the fact that my neighbour has made a complaint to the council specifically about my 1-year-old daughter. Our daughter is a lively, playful and extremely happy little girl and she is very eager to get out of bed every morning.
"Sometimes the time is 5am when she wants to get out of bed and she does stand at her bedroom gate screaming (not crying, just screaming) to get our attention. As parents, we do have our routines and we are currently trying to get our daughter back into her 7pm-7am routine but at the moment she just wants to get out of bed early and play.
"I imagine this is because it's summer and the sun comes up early (we do have blackout curtains in her room though). We also do everything we can to get her to stay in bed for a little longer (e.g. giving her a bottle/water, watching baby sensory videos, getting a couple of her toys out) but they don't seem to work."
She continued: "So eventually we will give into her and get up and out of bed to start the day. However, I'm not willing to just give into her straight away for the sake of silencing her because she will then get into her head that getting up at 5am is fine and that goes against everything we've ever done when it comes to her routine.
"The lady who lives next door has lived in silence for the last five months that we've been in our property that we were 99% convinced that the property was empty until yesterday when I was made aware someone was in there and I went round to ask her very calmly if we could have a chat about it. Of course she slammed the door in my face.
"I'm under the impression that she lives alone and doesn't have any children herself, and I know the gentleman that lived the our property before us didn't have children either so I understand that the lady may not like living next door to a child who is doing normal child like stuff but surely she can't be making complaints to the council about a 1 year old making noise? And surely there is nothing the council can do?"
She added: "What if I had a colicky newborn in the house...? Would she complain about a newborn too?
"Someone please tell me that this woman is in the wrong here or should I be trying to get my child to be silent in her own home?"
Since being shared, the post has received comments from fellow Mumsnet users giving their thoughts.
One wrote: "What did the council say? I'm sorry but this lady maybe needs a reality check. It might not suit her to hear a baby crying or screaming every so often but that's life I'm afraid.
"It's not always as simple as settling a baby or toddler, sometimes they cry no matter what you do. I don't see anyway of stopping that and if the council had any sense they would tell her so.
"If you get anymore complaints in I'd consider contacting the council about harassment. You should be living in fear of a complaint just going about normal family life."
A second suggested: "How long have you been letting your dd scream at 5am and waking your neighbour? Maybe 7pm is too early for bedtime and your dd has had enough sleep by 5am."
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