New age neighbours
My current neighbours generally are ok, mostly of the new age type.
Nice quiet little street where we have shared BBQs
But because of thin walls I do get to hear some chanting and drumming type stuff on a fairly regular basis.
Ive also now got the point where I find it amusing that one guy comes home so drunk he bounces off the front door several times before falling in.
Not so amused at the vomiting noises in the morning though.
However one early morning around 1am I was shocked to hear a blood curdling scream from next door, and again and again.
The guy comes out and i ask whats going on.
Oh dont worry its someone having a baby.
Not the lady of the house but someone they just met who had nowhere else to go.
Ok then, but the screaming got worse and worse, and very strange, sometimes howling like a wolf.
3am I gave up all idea of going to bed and sat in the garden, one by one lights all over the street are going on and people are coming out.
Every now and then they guy would come out and give a progress report.
all the while this scream over and over again
By 4am my nerves are tattered, Im saying , that doesnt sound right, she shouldnt be screaming like that for so long, and ask if a midwife is there.
No, we have a Doula ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doula) and she ( not the doula) is screaming like that because we are transferring the pain into healing sound, or something new age like that.
Okaaaay then :|
Then its, oh she is having a breach birth and knew this all along. FFS.
I strongly suggest they call an ambulance and if they dont i will.
5am ambulance arrives and peace reigns again.

Baby safely delivered the following morning.

To get a small idea of the sounds we were hearing non stop for over 4 hours, have a listen to these.
Need volume up as I was on the opposite side of the road and a wee bit shaky by then.

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(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Mon 5 Oct 2009, 19:28, 6 replies)

My missus made noises like that and ours was a normal birth.
Apparently at one point the police were knocking at the door.
(inniebear, Mon 5 Oct 2009, 20:50, closed)

Really? ouch
Another neighbour did consider calling the police until they knew what was happening.
I still think that is an un-natural sound :(
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Mon 5 Oct 2009, 21:38, closed)

You learn to tune it out after a while
To be fair I'd have been encouraging her to get her voice down low rather than high as it really does help with progress... and doesn't knacker your throat so much.

Oh and also to have a midwife there. NOT a bloody doula. FFS.
(Clarabelle is reverting to type on, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 0:06, closed)

:(
Sadly not possible to tune it out.
Thin walls, the event happening in the room just the other side of mine.
I dont even want to think about how raw her throat was after 4 hours of that.
Not to mention her other parts
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 0:19, closed)

Jesus!
No properly-trained doula would/should be doing that :-/ Not one myself, but I am pregnant and (as is my way) have been looking up *everything* to do with childbirth - I'm thinking of hiring a doula myself. I assure you, they're not all like that :)
(EasilyRecognisable I’m back baby, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 8:50, closed)

Pfffft...
Just squeeze it out. Didn't hurt me one bit.

The missus, on the other hand...
(inniebear, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 21:53, closed)