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A first-time mother, aged 24, has shared her harrowing experience living in a new apartment with neighbours who she says have made her life unbearable. The young mother, who lives on the second floor of a three-storey building, recently moved into a two-room apartment with her husband and their 6-month-old baby.
But since moving in, she has felt unwelcome and unsafe around two women who live in the same corridor.
According to the mother, the two women, both married for over eight years but without children, have shown nothing but hostility. “They’ve never greeted me, and when I greet them, they reply with low or annoyed voices,” she recounted.
She explained that each time she breastfeeds her baby inside, the women sit outside her door, talking and shouting so loudly that her baby cannot sleep. “Even when I come out to politely ask them to reduce their voices, they either ignore me or turn up the music, making it even harder for my baby to rest,” she added.
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Speaking tearfully, the mother said, “There was a time my baby fell ill, and these women didn’t even visit us or call to ask about him.
Yet, other neighbours came around to check on us.” She revealed that on her birthday last week, she invited them to join the celebration, but they ignored her. “I even took food and drinks to them, but the next day, I saw my gifts thrown away in their trash cans,” she said.
She also recalled a frightening incident: “Three days ago, while one of them was sweeping, I saw her loitering around where I had just spread my baby’s clothes to dry.
Later that evening, my baby developed a strange rash all over his skin,” she said. “The next morning, she came into my house early for the first time, saying she wanted to check on the baby because she heard him crying so much the previous night. I was so shocked,” the mother added.
She is the only breastfeeding mother in the entire building, and with the youngest child around being six years old, she stands out. “Sometimes, I feel like they hate me just because I have a baby,” she said.
Her mother sent her a rub from the village, which she applied on her baby’s skin, and it seems to be working. However, the experience has left her worried.
Her husband, who paid one-year rent in advance, has remained hesitant to move out, telling her, “Just avoid them.” But the mother fears for her baby’s safety and her own peace of mind.
As she waits for a solution, she hopes her story will raise awareness of the hidden tensions that can exist between neighbours—and remind everyone that sometimes, a mother’s greatest fear comes not from strangers, but from the people next door.
