What would you do?
Just recently found out that me and my husband are having our first baby and a day ago found a bed bug on our bed in our apartment. I’ve never had them before and as I looked things up it just feels too overwhelming. I’ve been devastated about this and sick. I’m not doing well. I’ve seen that in apartments it’s much harder to get rid of. Nearly impossible. I’m worried because we really don’t have the money to just up and move and neither of us have any family we can stay with. Last year into early this year I struggled for six months thinking I had scabies. Doctors prescribed us medication and we treated our house and ourselves over and over. It’s been four months since then. Looking back I’m now thinking it was bed bugs all along. The only reason I didn’t think it was bed bugs was because we would look and look and find nothing. We had Orkin come in and flip the house upside down and they found nothing. Or it could be that my sister just gave us this bed and she already had bed bugs. I did notice ink like black marks on the corner of the mattress. Im going to leave a picture and please tell me if you think this is from bed bugs. The other way we could have gotten them could be from my friends house. The day I spotted the bed bug was the same day I went to my friends place and sat on her bed and placed my stuff on there. Or maybe from a neighbor. So I’m just confused. I’ve always had a bad fear of bugs and just recently stopped feeling paranoid about the scabies and now this. I really couldn’t sleep last night and being pregnant for the first time I believe makes this feel so much worse and I’m worried. I’m worried that even if they could successfully treat this place I’d just be paranoid here anyway. I’ve always had a phobia of bugs and when I dealt with scabies it traumatized me. I want somewhere else to go to so bad. I feel scared. What would you guys do in my position? Any feedback is greatly appreciated.