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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My ILs are the type who sleep with their bedroom door open, even though their doorway very nearly lines up with the main living space.

That's fine, do what you want, but don't insist that we stay with you, leave your door wide open, then COMPLAIN when you hear the baby fussing at 6:15, and hear us head to the bathroom, quietly putting a bottle together, etc.

Newsflash: families with babies are up pretty early. We try to be quiet. But you need to CLOSE YOUR DOOR or at least take us up on our offer to let you borrow the extra white noise machine that we brought. [/quote]

Start staying in a hotel.[/quote]

We actively want to, and have offered to do so. Then we hear complaints that the other grandparents get to have kids stay in their house, we miss you, we want to see you, etc.

Thing is, if our sleep were being disturbed by them, we would absolutely stay in a hotel anyway. But because they are the ones being woken up--and it is completely and easily within their power to avoid this dynamic by closing their door and/or using a fan or a white noise machine--we just shrug, ignore their complaints, and move on with the day.

When they complain, we just shrug and say, "It might help to close your door. You're also welcome to try the white noise machine we brought." We aren't rattling around and making loud noises or talking full-volume. We're just...up. And there's a baby.[/quote]

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