Mice and newborn baby?!

[dreamerkr]

I was just about to take a nap after putting 2 month old DS to sleep, and I screamed when I saw a small mouse run across my bedroom floor. My house is spotless and I don’t know where they’ve come from. I’m sure there’s not just one in the house if it was so casually running around my bedroom! I’m so worried and scared because my baby is just 8 weeks old. Mice are harmful to babies right? We’re going to buy mouse traps tomorrow and set them around the house but I’m so scared for baby. I don’t want him to get sick or bitten! Can they go into his cot too?!

The mouse won't go near a newborn. I guess they are more of a risk to older babies who are crawling because the droppings carry bacteria.

We had this when DD was newborn. I remember a mouse sprinting across the room behind her sleepyhead. We found the holes and blocked them with steel wool. Never had a problem again.

Buy some steel wool and block up all holes, no matter how tiny.

I had a field mouse coming in for months, kept thinking id solved the issue by blocking up where I thought he was coming in but he was a persistent little fellow. Sat in the middle of my living room one night and just stared at me. Anyways we had to seal all food sources and eventually found he was coming in through a broken tumble dryer vent and gaps in kick plates. We were lucky it appears to be just the one, apparently more common with a field mouse. He did used to live in the garden but I used to feed the birds a lot and i think that encouraged him closer to the house. I was on high cleaning alert the whole time due to having baby and it was quite stressful. Ultimately I'd try and work out where he is coming from and if he is getting food from somewhere. Oh we also used sticky mouse traps, actually caught him twice and stupidly just put him back in the garden but it helped us work out where he was coming in and now that's sealed I've not seen him for ages. If you want to release him humanely you just rub olive oil on the stick bad and it dissolves the glue.