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garterchick · 05-16-2007, 06:58 PM

hi marian
the baby was born saturday night and is on the large side, but when i came home tonight i realized that it was 1 of a litter of 8. unfortunately the other 7 were still-born, three days after the first one. the female was acting as if she was contracting but i had no experience with the birth process and didn't know that that wasn't normal. in the meantime, the surviver is alrady eating rosies and i think all is well. i'd sure like to know what caused the large number of retained full-term babies. any suggestions?
tina

05-16-2007, 06:58 PM	#25 (permalink)
garterchick Juvenile snake Join Date: May 2007 Location: austin , texas Posts: 192 Country:	*Re: PUGET Babies update_ all eating well :))** hi marian the baby was born saturday night and is on the large side, but when i came home tonight i realized that it was 1 of a litter of 8. unfortunately the other 7 were still-born, three days after the first one. the female was acting as if she was contracting but i had no experience with the birth process and didn't know that that wasn't normal. in the meantime, the surviver is alrady eating rosies and i think all is well. i'd sure like to know what caused the large number of retained full-term babies. any suggestions? tina