Having a baby around makes it so easy to freak out

[dancingsinging]

Kid 1 noticed some baby black widows in our room. So Spouse went all around and squished a bunch of them--maybe fifty or so. Pre-baby, I'd be like, "good thing their little baby spider fangs can't penetrate my skin!" and then I would have slept blissfully in my room. But who knows about how penetrable infant skin is? And it probably wouldn't take much venom at all to kill a eight/nine pound baby. All my googling told me nothing. I called poison control and the guy on the other line went off and did a bunch of searching but couldn't find a definite answer about whether a baby black widow could hurt a baby human. The poison control guy said he'd worked there for 12 years and hadn't previously been asked that question. He said that he would be concerned, though, and suggested we put the baby in a different room tonight and fog the room tomorrow. Spouse says that if you fog a room, the poison never comes out of the carpet and that we shouldn't do it. Argh! No path to peace of mind!

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[wild_irises]

Yikes! I'm sure everything will be fine, but I'd be nervous too.

[dancingsinging]

Thanks for saying so. I was freaking out but also feeling foolish freaking out. :)

[metaphortunate]

If I found 50 spiders in my room, I would never sleep again. D:

Our light well patio is a nest of spiders, and the Junebug loves hanging out there while I water my plants, and I live in terror. But then poison = bad! No peace of mind!

I wonder, what if you fogged the place & then steam-cleaned the carpet?

[dancingsinging]

That's a good idea. We ended up taking almost everything out of the room (putting all the clothes in plastic bags & putting said bags in our extra-cold chest freezer) and then vacuuming the hell out of the room with the shop vac. I /think/ we got em all, and there certainly were no more spiders near the baby's bed.