A Baby will be above my Apartment, am I screwed?

Rod Hagen · 2026-06-01T15:19:48Z

After years of day and middle of the late-night barking from untrained dogs owned by entitled residents in my last place, I moved to my current apartment because it's concrete and steel, and it's one of two apartments in West Hollywood thus far successful in keeping out pets. (The other is rundown and noisy for other reasons).

It's been blissfully quiet In the nearly year I've been here. In that year, one Zillenial asshole resident decided he is so special that he will break the 50-year policy of no dogs. Good news is his apartment isn't near mine so I've never heard the new dog, bad news is it creates a precedent and others will follow. God knows how those dogs and owners will be. Nowadays landlords rarely evict tenants for getting a dog in violation of their lease because it's so easy to get the "service dog" certification.

Last week, I found out that the woman above me is going to give birth in a month. Fuck. Have you lived next to or above or in my case below an infant? It's a well-built building, is there any chance that its screams won't wake me up at night and irritate me during the day? Any at all? While I can hear them walking, I've never heard their TV or their talking. Talking of course is not the same as a baby screaming.

I know that apart from pressing the the landlord to instal carpet if it is a problem, do you have any other practical suggestions. Obviously, you can't zone against parenthood.

https://alblawfirm.com/press-mentions/crying-baby-noise/

I purchased this and this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3V6Y38G/ref=twister_B0D6C4LZPN?_encoding=UTF8&th=1

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074FL2HL2?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Any suggestions besides establishing a relationship with them, my landlord, and the Manager, all of which I've already done?

I love this building so much. I do not want to leave. Thank you. I'm terrified. Am I screwed?