One infant screamed constantly for 11 hours 30 mins? REALLY??
My two (now 6 and 2) had healthy pairs of lungs and could be pretty determined, but that would have been beyond them. Even a baby with colic (poor thing) can't manage much more than about 3 hours before being overcome by sheer exhaustion.
It is unlikely in the the extreme that the infant's parents weren't doing everything they could to keep the child quiet, if only for the simple reason that they find the noise as annoying as you do. Quite apart from that, they would be motivated by a desire to find the cause of their child's suffering and deal with it (babies cry for a reason).
The solution? Buy some earplugs/noise cancelling headphones and use them. Then sit back and enjoy your g&t/cup of tea in peace, grateful in the knowledge that you're not the one having to try and shut the baby up.
Last edited by Octopussy2; 9th Sep 2010 at 14:12.
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