Anyone who’s ever been pregnant or with someone pregnant knows: it’s a wild ride.

But in this story, a pregnant woman and her partner might be asking a little much.

Let’s start construction on this post…

AITA for not delaying our rebuild for our pregnant neighbors?

We are planning on doing a major rebuild on our old row house and finalized everything around 2 weeks ago.

We are excited as it has taken us nearly 1.5 years to get here.

We texted our neighbors this weekend to let them know construction would start at the end of the month for approximately 3-4 months.

We are not extremely close with the neighbors but always pleasant.

You know what they say about good intentions and the road to you-know-where…

One neighbor came by to talk to us after we sent the text and expressed disappointment in the timing because his girlfriend is pregnant and due next week.

We were never told of her pregnancy until December, when we learned she was due sometime in February.

He also asked about our rebuild on his own and my partner mentioned it might happen sometime in April which was our original start date.

Plans change, it’s true. How will the neighbor take this?

We told him how sorry we were for the timing but obviously it wasn’t intentional.

Ten minutes after he left, we received a text asking if we were available to talk the next day about possible solutions and if we could delay the rebuild by 3-4 months.

We agreed to meet but told him delaying was not possible because we already have another place lined up for us to live in, contractor agreement, etc.

Needless to say the meeting was not ideal.

Wonder what happened.

The girlfriend cried the entire time while apologizing for crying and hormones.

She said she has cried more in the past 24 hours than she has in the past 2 years.

She’s worried how this will affect the baby because she’s stressed now.

She couldn’t believe that we just sent them a text message with only a month in advance and that we should have come talk to them in person as this was the first she was hearing about this.

Did we even put ourselves in their shoes?

They have nowhere else to go.

Hm, how will OP react to this sob story?

They are concerned with how this affects their own sleep because the baby will be up at night they need to sleep during the day and they won’t be able to with construction.

If we did the rebuild 3 months later then it would at least be summer and they could go outside to escape the noise.

They also kept repeating what if we just say, “No this can’t happen.”

Uh, well, it’s not really up to them, is it?

We obviously feel for them as new parents expecting a baby and we all live in old row houses, so I get how noisy and distributive it will be.

We told them we would get them a build schedule so they could see what days would be noisiest and they want us to ask the contractor if there can be quiet hours from 12-3.

I don’t think that is realistic and don’t know what else we could do to amend the situation.

These neighbors definitely aren’t building goodwill.

What do the comments think?

This person says, what about their peace and quiet living next to a new baby?

This user is like, keep reasonable hours and NTA.

Someone else says, maybe these new parents need to do more research?

Here’s a second vote for, learn more about baby sleep maybe?

This user is like, the whole neighborhood isn’t gonna shush for a baby, soooo…

These neighbors are being crybabies before their baby is even born.

This whole situation isn’t going to end well.

If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws a free place to stay in exchange for babysitting, but things changed when they don’t hold up their end of the bargain.