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Mice ! Pregnant! Anxiety!

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sunflower1993 · 31/01/2022 19:13

I am ten weeks pregnant, tested positive for COVID today (so already very anxious) and I have just found mouse droppings under the bed / a few on the bed in the spare room.

I picked one up thinking it was fluff initially and then realised. Immediately, I washed my hands, put a mask on and disinfected the whole bed. I then put all of the bedding into wash on a high temp. My partner will clean the rest of the droppings as I don't feel comfortable doing so.

We struggled with mice for months after moving in in the spring and in the summer we spent an entire two days removing droppings, bleaching everywhere down. We've seen a monumental difference since then by blocking entry points, using electronic deterrents and sprays.

I really didn't want to kill them but I feel I have no other choice now other than to get an exterminator in and they only use poison.

I'm suffering a lot with anxiety and I'm just wondering if anyone else has had similar situations with mice when pregnant? I've convinced myself I'm going to contract all sorts of diseases that will harm my baby. I can't get past it Confused I've convinced myself that I've already contracted them and it's just a waiting game.

Basically I want someone to tell me that everything is going to be okay, I am fine, I'll live etc. I hate Google. I hate anxiety. I hate being pregnant. I hate mice!

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sunflower1993 · 31/01/2022 20:30

Anyone???

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kwaziseyepatch · 31/01/2022 20:53

It will be ok OP!

Don't handle any more droppings and get a professional exterminator in.

Congratulations on your pregnancy Smile

Hibye23289 · 31/01/2022 20:55

Just get the poison! We had mice and the poison killed them aswel as traps. We didnt want to kill them but we kept seeing babies running out on us!

Redsquirrel5 · 01/02/2022 01:26

Get some poison. I don’t like the thought of it but I am afraid we have resorted to it because other methods didn’t work. Heard at least one a few nights ago careering around under the floor boards. Been quiet for last two nights hope that is the end of them for now. We live in the country and know we will get them again sometime.

Congratulations on your pregnancy. So sorry you have Covid. I hope you are not too ill with it but rest up, feet up and watch a film, read etc

blyn72 · 01/02/2022 02:22

You will be fine, honestly. Human beings have coexisted with mice since the beginning of time.

It's not difficult to get rid of them, I have a couple of humane mouse traps which catches them, after which I release them back to the wild.

octoberfarm · 01/02/2022 02:30

You really will be absolutely fine, OP. We have had ongoing mouse issues for years (nightmare) and we've finally (I think!) got it sorted now we had someone in to professionally seal up the house. We made it clear we didn't want any poison or snap traps and just wanted the house sealed - I was happy to humanely trap any left inside and release them multiple miles away from home until there were none left. Radio silence for a good four months now, hurrah! If you really feel you need to kill them, please, please use snap traps instead of poison or those horrible sticky traps. Far better it be over in an instant than long and painful for them, which just feels so sad and unnecessary. Hope you're feeling better with both covid and the mice situ soon, I totally understand how draining it is and how icky/invasive it feels Thanks

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sunflower1993 · 01/02/2022 05:55

@octoberfarm

You really will be absolutely fine, OP. We have had ongoing mouse issues for years (nightmare) and we've finally (I think!) got it sorted now we had someone in to professionally seal up the house. We made it clear we didn't want any poison or snap traps and just wanted the house sealed - I was happy to humanely trap any left inside and release them multiple miles away from home until there were none left. Radio silence for a good four months now, hurrah! If you really feel you need to kill them, please, please use snap traps instead of poison or those horrible sticky traps. Far better it be over in an instant than long and painful for them, which just feels so sad and unnecessary. Hope you're feeling better with both covid and the mice situ soon, I totally understand how draining it is and how icky/invasive it feels Thanks
We have tried everything humanely and spent hundreds of pounds on humane traps (haven't caught one!), spray deterrents, electric deterrents, wire wool, vents etc. Next door put down poison (semi-detached) and one came to die in our house and I cried for days.

We've tried going to go down the snap trap route. However, the high-grade poison (I've been assured) kills them within seconds and minutes and essentially paralyses them. No exterminators in our community use traps, sadly.

I'm such an animal lover but need to do what's best for my mental health and my baby. If I wasn't pregnant, I'd probably be bloody feeding them and keeping them as petsConfused

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SomethingToldTheWildGeese · 01/02/2022 06:03

Careful about using poison which kills instantly - unlike the blood thinning slower acting ones, the rapid stuff stays in the food chain.
A coupe of years ago I found a kestrel which had been subject to 2nd hand poisoning and it died - and cats can die from it too.

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