Construction noise during postpartum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gosh parenting - the art of learning you control virtually nothing - is going to be a wild ride for you.

NP. This seems like a massive overreaction to OP's legitimate post. Kids making joyful but chaotic noise is world's apart to loud rumblings from a road being dug up. Or at least, it is for me... and most "good" parents.

PP didn’t mean noise levels. She meant that (charitably rephrased) that good parents can improvise and go with the flow when things can’t go their way because you can’t control everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gosh parenting - the art of learning you control virtually nothing - is going to be a wild ride for you.

NP. This seems like a massive overreaction to OP's legitimate post. Kids making joyful but chaotic noise is world's apart to loud rumblings from a road being dug up. Or at least, it is for me... and most "good" parents.

PP didn’t mean noise levels. She meant that (charitably rephrased) that good parents can improvise and go with the flow when things can’t go their way because you can’t control everything.

Sure, but good parents also anticipate things that could cause problems and negatively impact a child, such as high stress for caretakers or noise levels above a certain number of decibels, and try to avoid those kinds of scenarios, which is what OP is doing. Only a lazy failure of a parent would object to that or think it's strange.

[Anonymous]

Do not stress about things that have not happened. If it happens, and you cannot deal with it, then you go to a new location. I'd generally advise that your baby doesn't need absolute quite or absolute darkness to sleep. They adapt very easily as newborns, so don't go down a path that is impossible to keep up when they are more set in their schedules.

[Anonymous]

Could you file a request to the city to get them to postpone work or do it later in the day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Newborns can sleep through anything. My first would sleep in the bassinet with the roomba going by just fine in the beginning, noise sensitivity takes a month plus. I took my 2nd to a handsoff rally with non stop honking and baby slept the entire time.

And the sleep when the baby sleeps is hard to do for a dozen other reasons ( you may want to shower, eat, do laundry, dishes, etc in those moments). If you're nursing you'll be feeding every 2 to 3 hours but in the beginning it's often more like every 2, from start to start and feeding is slow and inefficient so while your baby may be asleep they're not often asleep for long chunks that are easy for you to also sleep.

I completely get the anxiety and the desire to plan and control it all but the construction noise will probably be least stressful thing and staying away from home at that time sounds rough if not necessary

+1 It's actually good for newborns to be exposed to lots of noise so they dont turn into light sleepers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The baby can already hear the noise and is already used to it.

The baby is protected and insulated from most noise by virtue of being inside the belly. They are in no way used to loud noises.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The baby can already hear the noise and is already used to it.

The baby is protected and insulated from most noise by virtue of being inside the belly. They are in no way used to loud noises.

The baby can't hear loud noises but can tell the difference between mom and dad's voices and remembers songs?

Something doesn't add up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am currently 8 months pregnant. The city is redoing the street outside our apartment, and while they had told us that it would be finished by May, it's becoming increasingly clear that this construction will be continuing for the next several weeks at least and likely the next few months. The noise was really loud, with jackhammering and drilling down to pull up the road, a couple of months back, but has since settled as they put the "finishing touches" on that half of the road. Now it's time to begin the other half, which will likely mean the drilling will start again, and the noise of bulldozers and heavy construction machinery will be an almost certainty.

This is causing me a lot of stress, as it's suddenly dawned on me that I will be dealing with this with a newborn at home (my first baby). I've obviously heard horror stories about being sleep deprived, exhausted and sleeping "when you can" so the idea of having several hours of the day "off limits" beginning at 7am every day is making me really anxious. I'm a light sleeper in general and get anxiety around sleep on a good day so this is really doing a number on me, and I also dont want it to have ill effects for the baby.

My question is... how bad will this be to deal with in the postpartum trenches? When the drilling is really bad you can feel the vibrations inside the apartment, even though the windows are fairly thick, and certainly you hear the noise all day when the construction machinery is out there. Should we get an Airbnb or... and this would not be my first choice, go stay with our inlaws several hours away? I really dont want to have to figure out travel arrangements after giving birth so I would love to plan this out now if it's going to be an issue.

Your baby's first inkling that the world does not revolve around it and a late awakening for you that the world first not revolve around you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am currently 8 months pregnant. The city is redoing the street outside our apartment, and while they had told us that it would be finished by May, it's becoming increasingly clear that this construction will be continuing for the next several weeks at least and likely the next few months. The noise was really loud, with jackhammering and drilling down to pull up the road, a couple of months back, but has since settled as they put the "finishing touches" on that half of the road. Now it's time to begin the other half, which will likely mean the drilling will start again, and the noise of bulldozers and heavy construction machinery will be an almost certainty.

This is causing me a lot of stress, as it's suddenly dawned on me that I will be dealing with this with a newborn at home (my first baby). I've obviously heard horror stories about being sleep deprived, exhausted and sleeping "when you can" so the idea of having several hours of the day "off limits" beginning at 7am every day is making me really anxious. I'm a light sleeper in general and get anxiety around sleep on a good day so this is really doing a number on me, and I also dont want it to have ill effects for the baby.

My question is... how bad will this be to deal with in the postpartum trenches? When the drilling is really bad you can feel the vibrations inside the apartment, even though the windows are fairly thick, and certainly you hear the noise all day when the construction machinery is out there. Should we get an Airbnb or... and this would not be my first choice, go stay with our inlaws several hours away? I really dont want to have to figure out travel arrangements after giving birth so I would love to plan this out now if it's going to be an issue.

Your baby's first inkling that the world does not revolve around it and a late awakening for you that the world first not revolve around you.

NP but is this even English? Word salad?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The baby can already hear the noise and is already used to it.

The baby is protected and insulated from most noise by virtue of being inside the belly. They are in no way used to loud noises.

The baby can't hear loud noises but can tell the difference between mom and dad's voices and remembers songs?

Something doesn't add up.

Being able to hear mom's voice is different from being disturbed by loud background voices like construction. The womb provides a huge amount of audio protection

[Anonymous]

"Humans are born with two innate fears: fear of falling and fear of loud sounds. These fears are not learned through experience but are present from birth, likely serving as survival mechanisms. Other fears are learned through life experiences and interactions with the environment.
Elaboration:
Innate Fears:
The fear of falling is often associated with depth perception and the understanding that falling can lead to injury. The fear of loud sounds is believed to be a response to sudden, intense noises that could be indicators of danger. "

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could you file a request to the city to get them to postpone work or do it later in the day?

Is this sarcasm?!

[Anonymous]

Umm,
As a UMC mom who dealt with a 5
Day power outage right before birth during 105F temperatures and also have never been the same since giving birth at a reaching hospital in early July when untrained residents are given too much responsibility , and who is living in the shit show that is 2025 in the US, I wish I could say more than… life happens.

Buckle up. Maybe I can also share the complex medical problems my child has. Seriously your pregnancy has nothing to do with it. Move off your street, deal or find legal grounds you think a judge will care about under today’s regime to get your inconvenient infrastructure improvements in your neighborhood halted. Try your best with your family to take care of an amazing new arrival to this world , so soon. And my best wishes for a medical recovery for all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could you file a request to the city to get them to postpone work or do it later in the day?

Is this sarcasm?!

Right...this cant be a serious question

[Anonymous]

It’s going to be ok.