Should I call in a noise complaint on a family with a crying baby?

Baby crying from midnight till 5am in apartment building. What's a reasonable recourse?

Most answerers think calling the cops (or CPS) would make you a complete jerk. The parents probably want the baby to sleep too, and calling a public employee on them isn't going to help. (If the baby is crying because they're neglecting it, that's a different story, but many perfectly cared-for babies cry a lot.)


Most instead recommend:

Talking to the parents sometime when the baby isn't crying; they may be able to move the baby so it impacts you less, or they may need advice on techniques to calm crying babies down (although they may already be doing those things).

Getting earplugs, headphones, a white noise generator, or even sound insulation to reduce the noise.

Simply trusting that, If you ever become a parent, you'll be thankful that your neighbours aren't calling the cops on you.

Another answer: You know who else has to deal with the crying baby?

The baby's parents.

So, while trying everything in their power to get the baby to quiet down, what they really need to deal with is some asshole who can't wear a pair of headphones or use a white noise generator causing trouble over it.

It is a baby. Not a blasting stereo or TV, not a loud party. A baby. They cry. Some of them, at some times, scream and cry inconsolably. It sucks. Believe me, it sucks a whole hell of a lot more for the parents than for you.

In Colorado, landlords are forbidden to discriminate against tenants because they have children. One of my landlords needed a stern reminder of that after getting a "noise complaint" from some jackass and sending a threatening letter. I never heard of it again.

I did know who it was (they also had a habit of pounding on the wall while I was trying to get the baby to sleep), and the next day, went over there, and told them that yes, I very goddamn well know it's not fun to have the baby up and yelling as much as she did, but that there's nothing to be done for it, and that white noise machines are available for under $20 if it bothers them. She apologized and I never heard of it from her again, either. I wasn't exactly in the best mood at that point to begin with.

People need to live somewhere. A lot of people, including those with babies, can't just drop everything and move to a detached house. There's a certain point at which noise from your neighbors becomes unreasonable in an apartment, but sometimes, you will hear them. Babies fall squarely under the "can't help it" heading, and you'll just have to live with it and block the noise as best you can.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Should-I-call-in-a-noise-complaint-on-a-family-with-a-crying-baby

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Op, what country are you in?

Hmmmm...if you are in Nigeria.just go talk to them else you will be labelled enemy of progress..

Yes op, arrest them... then, arrest those with noisy generators, churches with speakers, beer palour cum hotels with loud music, cars with noisy sounds & horns, then keke napep with loud music....

No parent appreciates seeing their children cry at night as it affects their sleeps too.
It could be heat cos there's no light:
patrol @ 145 could be unaffordable to the parents cos salary has not been paid,
inflation affecting luxuries in the home such as generator use etc.
..... ( some common Nigeria factor)