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[Alaskan]

Al i need more information on this car birth thing. Been thinking about it all day.

Well... we have 5 remember.

Kid one was hospital. . And we didn't like the treatment we got, so decided we wanted something different with 2.

So for 2 we decided to try a midwife birthing center that is close to a hospital... we thought best of all worlds. It is however a 1.5 to 2 hour drive from our house. First kid though was almost 24 hours....so sounded ok.

So we had kid 2 at the birthing center that is 2 hours away. Worked great.... and the birth was 10 hours or some such.

We thought awesome... kid 2 worked well, we liked the birthing center, will do the same for kid 3.

Ha.

Did you know that each one comes faster?

Well.. we knew that too... but we thought 24 hours, 10 hours, maybe kid 3 will be 5 hours.. still plenty of time.



Kid 3 was maybe 30 minutes. 30 MINUTES. Can't get much of anywhere in 30 minutes.

We were driving down the highway at breakneck speed.... when the kid crowned. By the time the car squealed to a stop at the very next driveway the head was out. Sheesh. Fast, best birth ever.. except the car had carpeted flooring.... don't recommend that.

Anyway, kid popped out as soon as the pajama pants holding the kid in were removed... kid was put on mom's chest and covered in towels (October...so cold) and tada, we looked up and saw that we had just given birth...at the dump.

No joke.

Though technically it is the "Solid Waste Transfer Site"

Anyway, kid pinked up and started breathing pretty fast, mom had torn a bit but no bad bleeding. ... good birth... except for the car... the car....

So kid 4, we decided anything was safer than a car, so we picked home birth... took kid 4 over seven hours, HOURS to come out!

Then kid 5 was 2 weeks early and placenta abrupta, so emergeny C.



Just can't plan these things.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I had a Aunt that had 9 last 4 c section

 

[CapricornFarm]

Subsequent births can be longer or shorter, depending on presentation. Just no telling.

 

[microchick]

Quail should be kept separate from chickens.

I kinda figured that. He had his in a pen inside his chicken coop.

I still want guineas. Need to remind DH he told me I could hatch some guinea eggs this year.

DD I keep standing at the window over my kitchen sink, staring out at the timber and willing it to turn green. This has been one long hard winter here. Usually it's in the high 40s, low 50s here by the end of Feb. Not this year.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Al, I guess that makes sense, as much as it can make sense. I can't think of a better place to be born than the solid waste transfer station. Honest. Hardworking folk, and everyone's got stuff to swap and get rid of. It's where the town folk meet.

Micro, I am going to need guinea stories. Ours are still nuts compared to the chickens, but slowing down in their old age.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I kinda figured that. He had his in a pen inside his chicken coop.

I still want guineas. Need to remind DH he told me I could hatch some guinea eggs this year.

DD I keep standing at the window over my kitchen sink, staring out at the timber and willing it to turn green. This has been one long hard winter here. Usually it's in the high 40s, low 50s here by the end of Feb. Not this year.

Even in a cage is not great. Chickens and quail can both suffer many of the same maladies.
Micro, sorry you are having a rough winter. We are going through a wet week here. Raining right now, 36°.

 

[CapricornFarm]

My fuzzy footed chicks.

 

[microchick]

Oh, they are just so freakin cute! Is that first one a black silkie? And the last one is so tiny!

I just reminded DH about the Guinea eggs. Amish neighbo around the corner has a small flock of guineas. May try to get 6 from him and see what happens. I'd pretty much figured that about quail, which is why I politely declined the egg offer and said 'Me want Guineas' Our friend just shook his head. He'd been NPIP in the past and said he'd done Guineas once....never again. When I mentioned Guinea eggs to DH he reminded me that we were doing Fayoumis this year. I said yeah, Fayoumis AND guineas.

Frankly, insane birds would probably be right at home here.

SGC is that a sweater and scarf that I see on Ripley? You old softy.

Yeah, don't know how many women I took care of checking in for their second birth saying that oh boy! The first is always the toughest, this labor will be easy peasy. The looks on their faces was priceless when I told them that often second deliveries were tougher than the first.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Oh, they are just so freakin cute! Is that first one a black silkie? And the last one is so tiny!

I just reminded DH about the Guinea eggs. Amish neighbo around the corner has a small flock of guineas. May try to get 6 from him and see what happens. I'd pretty much figured that about quail, which is why I politely declined the egg offer and said 'Me want Guineas' Our friend just shook his head. He'd been NPIP in the past and said he'd done Guineas once....never again. When I mentioned Guinea eggs to DH he reminded me that we were doing Fayoumis this year. I said yeah, Fayoumis AND guineas.

Frankly, insane birds would probably be right at home here.

SGC is that a sweater and scarf that I see on Ripley? You old softy.

Yeah, don't know how many women I took care of checking in for their second birth saying that oh boy! The first is always the toughest, this labor will be easy peasy. The looks on their faces was priceless when I told them that often second deliveries were tougher than the first.

Guineas do best in a large group and typically more males hatch than females, so 6 eggs may not be enough.
The black one is a cochin.

 

[microchick]

Now how am I going to 'splain that one to DH? LOL!