I’m the typo who will go to certain (sober) neighbors and complain if their music is too loud, but I don’t know about this one. I can usually tell if it’s a very young infant crying, as opposed to a nursery school child just mad that the candy ran out. Many kids quickly learn about ‘fake crying’, that gets louder the more the parent pays attention to the noise.
My guess is the parents of a screaming baby don’t want the noise either, and would immediately take out their frustrations on me. I try to deal with it. I often wonder how the parents can stand it, so close to the noisemaker.
Sometimes, I hear a neighbor child crying and conclude that this child is mentally disabled, and tends to fly into hysteria over level of frustration.
Safer to say nothing, unless you know there is abuse going on.
If you’re around it regularly you do become somewhat desensitized to the wailing. It doesn’t produce the same gut wrenching feelz that it does when you haven’t been around it much or in a long time.
“... how the parents stand it...”
Our second child had colic. From what the pediatrician said, it was classified as a severe type since she screamed all the time. Some colic babies only scream in the morning and others in the evening. Four months, ten days and six hours of it.... it was very, VERY difficult for me (I also had a four year old at the time). What got us through was we were told it wouldn’t last forever and a baby doesn’t die from crying. We were told it doesn’t affect their future personality either (I was concerned that she was going through such torment and pain). That being said, I was beyond exhausted. Ever been so tired that you cried? If this infant has colic... it’s no fun for the parents either. :)
My granddaughter just is a tad over 1 month, there are nights she cries a lot. Babies cry for reasons, being dirty diapers, diaper rash because NO BABY POWDER IS TO BE USED per the DUMB Pediatrician, and if hungry. Often formula does not hold them more than 2 hrs even at 6 oz. I keep my granddaughter at least once a week. Parents are NEWBIES, so follow the Pediatricians orders. STUPID Pediatricians say not to give babies under 6 months water with a half Tsp of honey. I ignore that, use bottled water and half tsp of raw honey and she goes right to sleep after she’s taken the whole 6 oz.
I’ve raised 3 healthy boys following my mom’s and grandmothers advice. They raised 12 between them.
DUH, formula is made with water and those Chems that cause COLIC. The FDA has no effective Colic med. But they will use Nexium in a heart beat. We used to use 2 drops of Paregoric in milk in a eye dropper to stop Colic.