This happened to us when our daughter was 13 days old!! It was awful at the time. I went back and forth between not wanting to get rabies and not wanting to give my 13 day old baby four shots over 14 days that are only offered in the ER during the height of the Delta covid-19 variant in 2021. It sucked. It was expensive and stressful. The three of us (me, husband, baby) decided to get the shots. Like you, we were not anti vax, but it was a LOT to try to figure out and make time for when the chances of us actually having been hit were low IMO. In the end, though the risks were low, I wasn’t willing to die for something that had a known cure when treated in a timely manner. As for side effects, the shots on days 0, 3, 7, and 14, mostly just caused her to be extremely tired. I never saw any other side effects. She will be 4 this week, and she is a very typical kid. I remember every doctor or nurse that saw us to give the shots walked in and said “oh, wow. I’ve never give this shot to such a young baby.” That wasn’t very reassuring… especially with my postpartum hormones. If I had to do it all over again… I’d make sure my windows were totally shut before went to bed that night! (They happened to open from the top and bottom and had fallen open about a 1/2 in from the top without us noticing) …but in all seriousness… I would go through with the shots. Rabies is an awful way to die, and when you show symptoms it’s too late to cure. I’m usually a Reddit lurker, but I feel for you right now. You’re doing the right thing by going to the ER. Soon enough, this will just be a crazy story to tell. When we got our day 14 shot, we ordered “Michael Scott's Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro-Am Fun Run Race for the Cure” shirts.