Daisy's Story:

Back in September a baby squirrel found us. Ran right up my partners leg. We tried to reunite with mom to no avail. Brought her in. She has fleas and so skinny. Bathed and de-flead her. Found TSB and began to read what to do next. Got some pedialyte to hydrate her and some Esbilac temporarily. Ordered Fox Valley from Henrys along with some HHB for later on. We determined her to be 4-5wks old based on her eyes open, fur and other appearances... Long story short.. Here we are now a couple months later and I'm torn on what to do. She weaned herself after about a month.. zero interest in formula anymore. She was eating some veggies just fine and gobbling up her HHBs.
She has a large critter cage she stayed in overnight with a squirrel box where she snoozes. In the morning I open the door and let her run and roam in our spare bedroom which I've basically cleared out and put branches in for her to climb and jump from.. she is very active.. runs climbs and jumps no problems.

Now, lately, she has almost no interest in really any veggies in group 1 or 2 (even group 3 really, unless its squash, sweet tater, or sugar snap peas) which is my first concern. Still eating and loving HHB.. 2 in am & 2 in pm.. is that too much HHB? I worry she's not getting enough to eat... even tho I've read they won't starve themselves... I still worry... ugh..
Nor is she really interested in 'wild' food so much -- She use to nibble on leaves and dandelion greens but not anymore... also our trees are bare so none to offer her. She shows no interest in dandelion greens anymore, could care less about grass or anything like that.. She does however enjoy rosehips from my knockout rose bush but those are becoming scarce now too.. She only gets 1 small piece of fruit (i.e. a blueberry, 1/2 a grape, 1 cranberry, small piece of apple) at night to get her into her cage. In lieu of fruit she might occasionally get a shelled hazelnut or shelled almond.

My second concern is now that she is 3.5-4 months old and we had planned to overwinter her... I'm worried I might be doing her a disservice as a singleton.

Basically my fear is she is
1. Bored.
2. Have we bonded too much? I usually go in and spend 10-15min several times/day to 'play'.
3. Not being socialized with other squirrels (I've read they will wild up when pre-released/released but how do i know for sure)
4. Not able to forage for herself -- lacking wild squirrel skills/behavior
5. Will she learn how to build a nest on her own? the only 'nest' she built she used pillow stuffing from a pillow I ripped open for her.. ran it all back and forth to her basket (this was before i had a squirrel box for her)

We have a Wildlife Rescue Center that I could take her to. Its a very nice facility with a squirrel room (for smalls) and huge outdoor prerelease cage. They really do care about their animals and I trust them. I just don't know where she would live there, if she would be in a small cage in the squirrel room or if they put them in the big prerelease cage with other? And as dumb as it sounds I don't want to send her off to a small 'jail cell' inside with no real contact w other squees.. would she think I abandoned her (ok, I'm a little crazy) ...I'd just keep her here in the spare bedroom if that were the case. These are all questions for them tho... I've sent them an email explaining my concerns and they got back with me but asked I call to chat over the phone... wanted to reach out here before I did...

Either way, whether we overwinter & release properly or take her to the center I will always worry did I do what is best for her... and that's been my goal this whole time... Do what's best for Daisy! I'm so torn

Side note-- Im also 38wks pregnant... have I lost my mind... am I delusional in thinking we can overwinter a squirrel AND have a newborn?? ugh.. HELP!

All advice welcome!