EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[Pensmaster]

Not the best first picture, but one is out!!!



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Very nice. Congratulations

 

[mlm Mike]

Ok, thanks. Should I even bother to up the humidity today at all?

You could, but I probably would just wait another day until lockdown.

 

[mlm Mike]

Not the best first picture, but one is out!!!



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Congratulations!

 

[mlm Mike]

Hen update. She’s back in a coop. Not hers but two coops away now.

That's good news!

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Very nice. Congratulations

Congratulations!

Thanks! When I left there were 4 others that were pipped externally. If you look carefully, you can see the egg below the empty one has a pip!

*Just a side note, these eggs were shipped, and were only placed inside the carton after lockdown, because of wonky air cells.

 

[ronott1]

How can I sleep? I just saw my first external pip!

It is very exciting to see them hatch!

 

[kajira]

Does anyone know how @kajira 's pregnancy is going?

Hey!!! I gave birth at 37 weeks - I'd spent a month on and off in the hospital prior to his birth for preterm labor/early dilation... and when my water broke he was born in less then 90 minutes! So good thing I was in the hospital already, or we would have delivered him ourselves!



He's definitely a keeper



We dealt with a 48 hour nicu stay, because I drowned him in amniotic fluid, he inhaled it after he was born, I gushed it into his face on accident... but his lungs dried out quickly, and then we had to deal with jaundice, which was a close call, but he finally started having his #'s on that drop for his bilirubin, his pediatrician was following him pretty close.

We will be 2 weeks old on saturday!




My youngest is absolutely enamored of him, and he's totally "her" baby btw! lol



He had his tongue tie clipped, it's pretty bad, so we have to redo it a second time, the dentist could barely get into his mouth to snip part of it and we had to wait a couple weeks until it healed and his mouth got bigger to get the rest of it.

So, nursing isn't fun right now, but i'm powering through until we fix it.

 

[kwhites634]

Hey!!! I gave birth at 37 weeks - I'd spent a month on and off in the hospital prior to his birth for preterm labor/early dilation... and when my water broke he was born in less then 90 minutes! So good thing I was in the hospital already, or we would have delivered him ourselves!



He's definitely a keeper



We dealt with a 48 hour nicu stay, because I drowned him in amniotic fluid, he inhaled it after he was born, I gushed it into his face on accident... but his lungs dried out quickly, and then we had to deal with jaundice, which was a close call, but he finally started having his #'s on that drop for his bilirubin, his pediatrician was following him pretty close.

We will be 2 weeks old on saturday!




My youngest is absolutely enamored of him, and he's totally "her" baby btw! lol



He had his tongue tie clipped, it's pretty bad, so we have to redo it a second time, the dentist could barely get into his mouth to snip part of it and we had to wait a couple weeks until it healed and his mouth got bigger to get the rest of it.

So, nursing isn't fun right now, but i'm powering through until we fix it.

I don't know what a lot of that means, but I know he's a keeper.

 

[kajira]

I don't know what a lot of that means, but I know he's a keeper.

Bilirubin is the liver breaking down our different blood types. It causes their skin and eyes to turn yellow until they process and break down the bilirubin.

He and I exchanged blood in the womb (making him cooms positive) which put him at high risk for extreme jaundice levels - (this is when they use photo therapy lights, usually, to break down the jaundice and get the levels lower.)

Immature immune systems are slow to break down the levels, so new borns often are yellowish for a few days after birth if they have any issues with it.

And, a tongue tie is when the tongue has limited motility (it's usually a genetic trait) because it's too tight in the mouth to the bottom floor, so in order for speech, and full use of the tongue, they have to cut, or laser the skin under the tongue to allow a better range of motion in the mouth.
3/5 of my kids have now had to get tongues clipped - my middle son couldn't talk until his was clipped at the age of 2, because his wouldn't allow his speech to develop correctly.

 

[hippiestink]

Hey!!! I gave birth at 37 weeks - I'd spent a month on and off in the hospital prior to his birth for preterm labor/early dilation... and when my water broke he was born in less then 90 minutes! So good thing I was in the hospital already, or we would have delivered him ourselves!



He's definitely a keeper



We dealt with a 48 hour nicu stay, because I drowned him in amniotic fluid, he inhaled it after he was born, I gushed it into his face on accident... but his lungs dried out quickly, and then we had to deal with jaundice, which was a close call, but he finally started having his #'s on that drop for his bilirubin, his pediatrician was following him pretty close.

We will be 2 weeks old on saturday!




My youngest is absolutely enamored of him, and he's totally "her" baby btw! lol



He had his tongue tie clipped, it's pretty bad, so we have to redo it a second time, the dentist could barely get into his mouth to snip part of it and we had to wait a couple weeks until it healed and his mouth got bigger to get the rest of it.

So, nursing isn't fun right now, but i'm powering through until we fix it.

He's gorgeous! I feel you on nursing issues, but it's great you're doing what you can to improve them. I'm so glad to hear everything is okay!