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We live in an apartment. I never worried about our LO crying when she was a baby, I feel like her cries are worse as a toddler. We never did CIO because it wasn't for us but we have definitely tried it and felt horrible about the constant crying and tantrums from our toddler that would last forever.

Our walls are so thin I can hear my upstairs neighbor snoring sometimes. Ha. So I try not to worry too much about my LO.

We were in an apartment with a colicy baby. We never received a complaint but I always felt bad. When DD was little she was only soothed with a vacuum. We only ran the vacuum during the witching hour which meant more crying in the evening. I assumed the vacuum was worse than the crying but I never asked a neighbor.

Months later we did CIO. I doubt my neighbors noticed that because LO cried so much anyway (every time she fell asleep and every time she woke up).

I worry about the noise but no one has said anything. And I think my dogs are probably more annoying! We're moving next month to another apt and I worry about whether the sound will carry more

We also live in an apartment and we can hear our upstairs neighbor sometimes. Our downstairs neighbor says she can only hear the LOs if they are really wailing.

We also lived in apartment before where we could hear the toddler living in it running around. It never bother me much - way better than the porn like sex noises we got from the predecessors at 3am

We live in a condo too and i think our neighbors baby was colicky. But we only heard her thru the door - the cries would travel down the hall and we could hear her cry. Our walls are concrete so no sound passes thru them. I felt bad for them but it didnt bother me. Babies cry. I was just happy at the time that it wasnt us! We were childless at the time. I figure if they can hear our kids cry now, theyll understand.

We live in a condo since before LO was born. When he was colicky, our upstairs and downstairs neighbors were really cool about it. Both of them would blast music to muffle it. With our neighbors, it was more of an understanding thing. When we did CIO, we posted a note and sent text messages about it. There's a couple in the garden unit with a baby, so the first floor unit hears a baby and a toddler now. Fortunately, he's very nice and laid back being the only single, childless guy in the building.

I have been living in the same very large apartment building for the last 8 years. Before at any given time, there may have been 4-5 families with a quiet baby/child at any given time (out of 300 apartments). Noise was never a problem.

In the last 2 years a whole new population has moved in and at least 70% of the people living here have multiple small babies and toddlers in one bedroom apartments.

The new people here are so rude and have no common curtesy. Our complex is shaped in a big rectangle with a large common area in the middle. Sound really echoes here. They will allow their children to scream and cry for 20 minutes at a time outside of other peoples windows or doors, until someone asks them to bring their child inside. If for some reason the crying child is inside they always have all their doors and windows open, so it does not muffle the sound at all. If people take their screaming kids inside and shut the doors and windows you cant hear them.

Its a huge problem and there are always 10-15 screaming kids outside at any time. Management is trying to stay on top of it by warning people not to stand outside other peoples doors, and posting signs asking people to keep noise down and not gather in the center area. They put up flyers of all the parks in the area and said our apartments are not a park.

Its very frustrating, but I think it is just a cultural thing with the new tenants. Oh well, when I have my baby I will remember to not stand outside of someone elses door, and to shut my windows and door when she is screaming for extended periods of time. Sorry for my vent.

We have lived below families with babies or young kids twice. Both times, we moved as soon as we could because the noise was unbearable. However, in both cases, it was actually the parents that made the noise that bothered us. They would be up super early (which I now understand!) and would do noisy chores like vacuuming at 6am on a Sunday. I think they were just generally loud people.

We currently live in a townhouse with shared walls and I was so afraid that our neighbors would be bothered by LO, especially when she went through her awful sleep phases, but we keep her crib away from the shared walls and always use a ton of white noise, and our neighbors say they never really hear anything.

I have lived in multiple apartments in the last 12 years. I have never had a problem with any of the other tenants. We have a 4 month old and he often cries for naps with his crib next to the apartment wall. The tenant on that side has never said anything to us.