I’d have gone bat-shit crazy. I’m fearful of anything that might carry rabies into my house. I don’t care that they’re good for the ecosystem blah, blah, fucking-blah. Panic is the only response.
According to the kid that died (the one Lieu referred to) he had no idea he was bitten. Their teeth are small and sharp and you wouldn’t know it in most cases.
I don’t know, but you have the beginnings of a Dr. Seuss book going here.
According to this site rabid bats do not fly very well or totally lose their ability to fly. So if that one was zooming around your house it may have been okay and just trapped.
How did it get in?
You should have grabbed it and given it a kiss.
[Land Bat]
“Candygram”
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It does produce a somewhat subtle difference in meaning, to be sure.
How does a toad get in the commode?
I’m not telling.
I don’t know how it got in - I assumed it flew in when I had the back door open.
Now I am a little worried. I had the baby on the changing table in the living for a couple of minutes while I threw his diaper away. If it had bitten him while he was awake, he would have cried, right?
ElzaHub saw it fly into the dining room, and he says he saw it flying normally.
Shit. We were joking about it earlier, and now I’m scared to death it got to my baby.
E.
Well, check the little one out for scratches and watch him for aversion to garlic and whether or not he has a reflection in the mirror.
New Mommies are so cute. They worry so much! 
If it makes you feel better, take Baby B to the doctor. But unless you see any marks or scratches on him I would think he was fine. I would also think he would have hollered if he had been bitten.
And you weren’t gone for a couple of minutes. Sit down and watch the second hand of a clock go around twice. You know you were not gone that long. You didn’t want Baby B to fall off the changing table, so you were gone maybe 10-15 seconds while you tossed the dirty diaper.
Take a deep breath. The bat is gone, and ElzaHub was suitably heroic.
How old is your baby? Unless he was asleep I think even a little baby would make a commotion over having a bat close enough to them to bite them.
I am sure an awake person would notice a bat flapping around. The only danger I think is being deeply asleep so you don’t notice the bat at all.
I have also had singular bats in past houses before, so you don’t necessarily have an infestation. Sometimes they just fly in and get stuck. I wouldn’t worry about it any more.
Well, I just called the public health department to see - they told me to call my pediatrician and see what she wants to do, plus I have to talk to the guy at public health who deals with these things. He said 50% of the time, they do want to do the series, but he thinks there’s a very small chance that my son was affected. He’s just over 3 months old.
I know I probably sound silly panicking, but I didn’t even think about that part. I don’t think I was gone longer than the time it took to throw the diaper away, but I honestly can’t remember. I always put the straps on him on the changing table, plus, it’s rounded so he can’t go anywhere, not that he can roll or anything in the first place.
Ugh. ElzaHub is going to see if the bat was by chance injured when he tossed it over the fence and maybe it died after he tossed it.
E.
Oh! A typo! That’s spelled “T-U-R-D.”
Of course you’re panicking. But that’s normal for new Mommies. After Ivyboy was born I visited my dad for a party and had signs all over his bassinet “Please Wash Hands Before Touching Baby!” Of course, when Ivygirl was born, as long as whoever wanted to hold her didn’t have open wounds I didn’t care.
Go get Baby B checked. It will put your mind at ease.
Post-Traum-Batic Syndrome?
Post-Trau-Batic Syndrome?
Other than that, I got nothin’.
[Calvin]WHO’S GIVING THIS REPORT?![/Calvin]
DH is going to call the pediatrician - I have to be out of town for a company staff meeting today - so we’ll see what she says. I’m a lot calmer about it today, but I’m still a little worried. Hopefully, she’ll just tell us we’re overreacting.
When my dad was newly arrived in the sub-tropical city of Brisbane from cooler Sydney in the 1960s, on his first night there, he did some hand-washing of clothes in the bathtub. The next morning, he saw a pair of underpants happily motoring up and down the tub at great speed. Turns out a large cane toad had gotten trapped in them. As an old man, my dad still doesn’t like Brisbane. 
Better that than a baby with rabies.
Adults get gray hair only after they have children. 
Are you sure it was a bat? It might have been a small demon or imp.