Baby Watch ** Update** with pic!

Re: Baby Watch - help please

babies by tomorrow!!!

check this site out

http://kinne.net/ob1.htm

Behaviors during first stage labor

First stage labor begins at the end of a 144- to 155-day pregnancy. It lasts from 12-36 hours and consists of the doe's physical changes.

Teeth grinding (discomfort)
Breathing faster than usual
Avoids eating and/or drinking
Vocalizes more or less than usual
Stands or walks more or less than usual
Avoids other goats
Suddenly more friendly or standoffish
Paws at the ground
Lies down and rises frequently
Licks or bites at her sides
Looks behind her

Re: Baby Watch - help please

well, I was out in the barn with Daisie until about 10:00 pm. She went from being a complete booger not letting me look for ligaments and touching the base of her tail to loving on me. So here is what happened.

I went out at 8:30 pm - sat down on the milking stand. She came over and layed her head on my legs. I could see the baby moving worse then ever before. She let me massage down her spine and massage the base of her tail where you find the ligs without a twitch. She also was letting me scratch where her horns used to be without moving....REALLY not like her!!! She was chewing her cudd so hard and so fast then she would stop and stretch out and just stare straight ahead and then start biting at her sides - mainly the right side. Then she would bring up more cudd and go back to chewing.

She would not lay down or leave me. I finally decided that I would go in and get a couple hours of sleep. Well the alarm did not go off on my phone, so I got up at 4:30 and checked on her thinking for sure I would have babies - NOPE~

So I went back in and layed down for an hour. I fed the bottle babies and got ready for work. Her ligs are completely gone, udder is really full - but nothing. So I decided to come to work at 7 am this morning. It is now 1:42 pm and this is killing me - I don't know what is going on and to boot - Today is my step son's birthday - so we are supposed to be going to a family dinner after work - which means that I will not be home til real late tonight - I am so scared right now. I am wondering if I should go home to check on her, but yet I would feel really stupid driving 1 1/2 hours round trip for nothing - LOL!

What would you all do??

Re: Baby Watch - help please

ok - so last night I decided to go to dinner, because hubby made me feel a bit guilty - well, we had dinner, stopped to get gas on the way home for both vehicles.... the whole time I am paniced that my FF might be in distress or something at home trying to give birth by herself.

I pulled in the drive way, backed right up to the barn, jumped out, ran to the birthing stall, to find this -

A cute little buckling that we have named Semper - as my son in infatuated with the Marines - Semper Fi