water broke early and the birth was breech

I did, and it's too late to edit my original comment! I'm going to delete it, and put the correct response here.

So sorry to hear that she lost her... Remember that as long as the umbilical cord is unbroken, babies are still eating/drinking/breathing/ through that, so it's probably not the thing that caused her to die. I would think, especially with the presentation, that it might be as Deb said, that she had been dead a while... ?

Deborah Niemann-Boehle said:

I think you meant " as long as the umbilical cord is unbroken..." :-)

Rachel Whetzel at MigMog Acres said:

So sorry to hear that she lost her... Remember that as long as the umbilical cord is broken, babies are still eating/drinking/breathing/ through that, so it's probably not the thing that caused her to die. I would think, especially with the presentation, that it might be as Deb said, that she had been dead a while... ?

I am so sorry you lost the kid. The water breaking has nothing to do with the kid dying. Those little kids are far more hardy than most people think. Oh, the stories I could tell you! Last year I had a doe with quintuplets that had gotten very tangled. I was able to get the first one out, but I did not have all the right 'toys' to get the rest of them out. The vet hospital is two hours away + another hour of me trying and then loading the doe into my car = more than 3 hours with a kid's let hanging out of this doe before he was born. He and the other kids were all born healthy and strong. No one needed any help to get going when they were born. If another case we had a ewe running around the pasture for 45 minutes with a head hanging out before we could catch her to help. That was only our second lambing season, and we called the lamb Miracle because we thought it was so amazing. But it really was not all that amazing. The only time that seconds count in a birth is when in a breech once the umbilical cord is out, the head needs to get out. But most breech births go just fine, and lots of kids are born breech.

You said little doeling, so I am wondering exactly how little. She may have stopped developing and died weeks ago. If you can rub off her hair or if her skin is really thin and tears easily, it means she has been dead for quite a long time.

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Rachel Whetzel at MigMog Acres April 26, 2014 at 6:16pm

I did, and it's too late to edit my original comment! I'm going to delete it, and put the correct response here.

So sorry to hear that she lost her... Remember that as long as the umbilical cord is unbroken, babies are still eating/drinking/breathing/ through that, so it's probably not the thing that caused her to die. I would think, especially with the presentation, that it might be as Deb said, that she had been dead a while... ?

Deborah Niemann-Boehle said:

I think you meant " as long as the umbilical cord is unbroken..." :-)

Rachel Whetzel at MigMog Acres said:

So sorry to hear that she lost her... Remember that as long as the umbilical cord is broken, babies are still eating/drinking/breathing/ through that, so it's probably not the thing that caused her to die. I would think, especially with the presentation, that it might be as Deb said, that she had been dead a while... ?
Deborah Niemann-Boehle April 26, 2014 at 7:13am

I am so sorry you lost the kid. The water breaking has nothing to do with the kid dying. Those little kids are far more hardy than most people think. Oh, the stories I could tell you! Last year I had a doe with quintuplets that had gotten very tangled. I was able to get the first one out, but I did not have all the right 'toys' to get the rest of them out. The vet hospital is two hours away + another hour of me trying and then loading the doe into my car = more than 3 hours with a kid's let hanging out of this doe before he was born. He and the other kids were all born healthy and strong. No one needed any help to get going when they were born. If another case we had a ewe running around the pasture for 45 minutes with a head hanging out before we could catch her to help. That was only our second lambing season, and we called the lamb Miracle because we thought it was so amazing. But it really was not all that amazing. The only time that seconds count in a birth is when in a breech once the umbilical cord is out, the head needs to get out. But most breech births go just fine, and lots of kids are born breech.

You said little doeling, so I am wondering exactly how little. She may have stopped developing and died weeks ago. If you can rub off her hair or if her skin is really thin and tears easily, it means she has been dead for quite a long time.

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