The home worker received an earful after she asked the parents living next door if they could move their crying baby to a different room as the noise was disturbing her

A woman has ignited a fierce debate online after confessing she asked her neighbours to move their crying baby while she was at work.

The disgruntled neighbour, 28, says she tries to be understanding about the baby living next door. However, she works from home twice and week and constant noise has become a problem.

But when she spoke to her neighbour - making what she thought was a reasonable request - she ended up with an earful of a different kind.

"I live alone and am a quiet neighbour, however next door aren't. I hear everything! I don't know what the owners did when they were renovating but there is no sound insulation at all," the worker explained in a post to Reddit.

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The noise is disrupting her work (stock photo) ( Image: Getty Images)

"The baby, because it's a baby cries a lot, but it's nearly constantly crying and sometimes scream crying nearly all day. And I mean all day."

She added that she puts up with the noise by wearing headphones but needed to say something, as the cries can be heard by colleagues too.

"I work in the back bedroom upstairs as it's the only room I don't get any road noise in, which by the sounds of it is also the baby’s room on the other side of the wall," her post outlined. "It cries so loudly I can hear it like it's in the room with me, and clients and colleagues can hear it crying though my headphones and I'm getting lots of comments from people about it. It's also very distracting for me to try and work with."

Accordingly, she asked her neighbours 'if it was at all possible that if the baby can't be calmed down', the child could be moved to a different room 'for a bit'. But what she thought was a reasonable request was not received well.

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"I was very polite about it and apologetic," she wrote. "Well the mother exploded at me, swore at me, called me entitled and selfish and that I had no idea what it was like to be a mother and how hard it was, and she said she left the baby upstairs so she could go down and have a break from its crying. Then slammed the door in my face."

As such, the conflicted worker was keen to know if she'd been in the wrong. "I know babies cry, I know they are difficult to settle and I imagine with all they crying they are really tired. But I make little to no noise as their neighbour and it’s affecting my concentration work, and people are commenting on it," she wrote.

However, commenters struggled to come to a consensus. One person replied: "She should try and change rooms so the baby doesn't disturb you the whole day." A second said: "This is an unfortunate situation. It wasn't wrong to ask but I also understand the mom freaking out."

But another thought: "Unfortunately [you are the a**] for trying to micro manage noise in someone else's house during sociable hours."

Meanwhile, someone else replied: "There simply is no feasible solution here except YOU soundproofing YOUR side."

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by AMBER O'CONNOR, LIFESTYLE WRITER

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