'The girlfriend cried the entire time': Couple asks neighbors to delay their rebuild for 4 months because of pregnancy

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    Posted by u/patternwaves 14 hours ago AITA for not delaying our rebuild for our pregnant neighbors? ş
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    We are planning on doing a major rebuild on our old row house and finalized everything around 2 weeks ago, we are excited as it has taken us nearly 1.5 years to get here. We texted our neighbors this weekend to
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    let them know construction would start at the end of the month for approximately 3-4 months. We are not extremely close with the neighbors but always pleasant. One neighbor came
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    by to talk to us after we sent the text and expressed disappointed in the timing because his girlfriend is pregnant and due next week. We ourselves were never told of her pregnancy until December and that she was due sometime in February. He also asked
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    about our rebuild on his own and my partner mentioned it might happen sometime in April which was our original start date. We told him how sorry we were for the timing but obviously it wasn't intentional.
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    10 minutes after he left we received a text asking if we were available to talk the next day about possible solutions and if we could delay the rebuild by 3-4 months. We agreed to meet but told him
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    delaying was not possible because we already have another place lined up for us to live in, contractor agreement, etc. Needless to say the meeting was not ideal. The girlfriend
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    cried the entire time while apologizing for crying and hormones. She said she has not cried as much as she has in the past 24 hours as she has in the past 2 years. She's worried how this will affect the baby because
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    she's stressed now. She couldn't believe that we just sent them a text message with only a month in advance and that we should have come talk to them in person as this was the first she was hearing about this. Did we
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    even put ourselves in their shoes? They have nowhere else to go. They are concerned with how this affects their own sleep because the baby will be up at night they need to sleep during the day and they won't be able to with construction. If we did
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    what days would be noisiest and they want us to ask the contractor if their can be quiet hours from 12-3. I don't think that is realistic and don't know what else we could do to amend the situation.
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    Update: Thank you everyone for your responses and insights, much appreciated! We do share a wall with them and part of the rebuild includes insulating the entire house. We found out work will go on from 8-4pm
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    each day with a 30 minute break for lunch at 12. The builder is fine to give an overview of what will be done and when. After that, I think we have done our best to assist them during this time.
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    SassyPieHole03 · 14 hr. ago Aficionado [13] It's a baby. It's going to make noise all on it's own. It can now make as much noise as it likes without disturbing you next door and without it's parents being worried about it doing so. This is a massive overreaction from your neighbours. I would suggest you stop being quite so accommodating and concentrate instead on your own plans and carrying them forward. ΝΤΑ 6.4k Reply Share
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    Confuzzle-Puzzle - 14 hr. ago 100% agree. Tell them to buy a great white noise machine, and don't think anything further of it. I have a 1 year old. If they want to sleep, they will sleep through anything. If they don't want to, a tissue dropping will wake them up. Reply Share 2.0k
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    okayolaymayday 12 hr. ago . I just was visiting my friend whose 1 year old twins slept through a fire alarm. In their room!!! We actually got worried because they didn't wake up and thought they were hurt and woke them up ourselves.
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