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Edit: I forgot to add this before out of exhaustion, my landlord is my next-door neighbour and a teacher, so I can understand that the noise is affecting their job performance and I really try to keep it to a minimum. However, they have complained a few times, and other neighbours seem to be trying to add fuel to the fire by doing things like complaining about foxes tearing through my bin bags if I put them out the night before (our collection is around 6 am and sometimes I’m genuinely too exhausted to wake up so put them out to prevent them sitting in my house another week.) as well as the contents of my bins, I.e. Recycling sometimes ends up with general rubbish.
My tenancy is due to end in around 4 months and because of Covid where I live in the U.K. Landlords are required to give 4 months notice, so they came to me a couple of months ago saying I could break the lease early if I find a new place otherwise they would be giving me notice 4 months before the end of my lease because they want me out. They try to claim the place was advertised as having no kids when I moved in while I was visibly pregnant, however, the place was even advertised with a nursery. I honestly understand they are exhausted too and wanting to be kept up by a baby at night is the last thing they want, and I’m desperately trying to keep her quiet so as not to disturb them and failing miserably.
My 18-month-old just won’t stop screaming. She screams this awful high pitched blood-curdling scream all day and I’m at wit’s end. I want to just run away. I don’t even know how to deal with her anymore. She’s so spoiled she screams for absolutely everything and is always jumping around, throwing herself about the place and screaming. She’s like a possessed ferret and is constantly at risk of hurting herself.
She does it at night and will just scream for hours till the early hours of the morning, it’s gotten so bad we’re being evicted from our home because the neighbours can’t stand the noise and because of my financial situation, I’m struggling to find another place to rent.
I don’t know what to do anymore, it’s just the two of us and I have no breaks, it’s just a constant migraine and I just want to run away at this point I can’t take anymore. I’m beyond stressed out and constantly crying because of how stressful my life is and I just want her to stop screaming so I can think straight for just a second.
She’s never hungry when she’s screaming, if I try to pick her up or play with her it’s usually met with violence, twice I’ve ended up in A&E from her scratching my eyeball. I don’t even know if this is normal kid behaviour. She’s my first and I didn’t expect this.
I do love her dearly but I’m really struggling to cope and I feel like I’m on the verge of a mental breakdown, I just want to know how to stop her screaming.
