https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 16 May 2026 05:43:30 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-batty#post-948078 Sat, 20 Jul 2013 10:14:50 +0000 Maysprout 948078@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It doesn't seem as scary in the morning but I'm sure once it gets dark out I'm sure I'll be having bad thoughts again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-batty#post-947631 Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:16:40 +0000 Ginabean3 947631@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>oh my goodness! i'd be going batty too! I think you are okay though! don't stress! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-batty#post-947630 Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:16:31 +0000 Maysprout 947630@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@autumnlove: Yeah we get our chimney cleaned out once a year so I'm going to ask them to put better netting on but we can't do it now in case there's already a bat in there, then we'd just be trapping them in the house. Def not going into the basement though until the fall, well at least not at night. I also noticed our exhaust fan to the outside isn't netted so guess we should do that too. The last bat got in pretty much a year ago exactly so I think it's the time of year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-batty#post-947626 Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:13:36 +0000 autumnlove 947626@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think you are probably ok but bats getting in your house sounds scary!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-batty#post-947617 Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:10:01 +0000 Maysprout 947617@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Earlier this week when I went to the bathroom (which is not in our room) a bat flew out when I turned the light on. I'm not sure if he got in through the exhaust fan or through our basement. I couldn't find him so I woke DH up who couldn't find him either. Since it's been so hot we sleep with our bedroom door shut and the AC window unit on and LO is in there with us. So we stuck a towel under the door so the bat couldn't get under and went to bed. (Well I stayed up for another hour and did another search with no luck)</p> <p>The next day we still couldn't find the bat. I kept our bedroom door closed all day because I wanted to know if it somehow it had gotten in our room. LO and I were home some and out some and when she took a nap she just slept on me downstairs because I didn't want to go up where the bat might be. At night we figured it might come out again so my husband walked around banging on the upstairs with a broom but still nothing. About an hour later he went to go turn the AC on and it was flying around the hall upstairs. He ended up killing it - not really on purpose - so I took it to dept. of health to get it tested for rabies. </p> <p>Unfortunately since it was laying on the ground dying my husband gave it a hard enough whack so it wouldn't suffer for long and ended up destroying the brain so they couldn't get a test result. They called and got our story and how he killed it and said they wouldn't recommend the shots since we were all asleep in the same room with the door shut and he whacked it at broom length away.</p> <p>Last year around this time a diff bat got in the house, apparently end of july all the babies are born, the little suckers get in past the netting on our chimney, so apparently we just have a yearly bat in the house. But once I got pregnant, many months later, I started having nightmares about the bat in the house even though we got it out within an hour and were both wide awake. So now I'm just worried.</p> <p>I feel like dept of health said not to worry, and the series of shots are 2000-7000 a person though I think our insurance would pay, and its a decent amount of shots to go through for LO and me being 6 months pregnant for probably no exposure but then the other side of my brain is a lot more worried. </p>