{"id":4303,"date":"2013-08-22T14:01:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T06:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=4303"},"modified":"2013-08-25T14:21:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T06:21:32","slug":"i-felt-it-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/22\/i-felt-it-move\/","title":{"rendered":"I felt it move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130823-021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4310\" alt=\"20130823 021\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130823-021-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130823-021-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130823-021.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I felt a kid move inside <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/04\/happy-birthday-midge\/\">Midge<\/a> today for the first time. \u00a0I have been massaging her lower back for the last couple of weeks &#8211; mainly so I can see when her telltale ligament softens &#8211; and today she let me touch under her belly. \u00a0The babies are dropping into position so it looks like her spine is rising up \u00a0and her sides are hollowing. \u00a0It is all quite amazing for this first gen farmer. \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/category\/not-so-wildlife\/goats\/\">Goats<\/a>\u00a0have a couple of ligaments that connect the spine to the pin bones in the pelvis and they soften approximately 12-24 hours before kidding to help the kids get through the birth canal. \u00a0It is one of the best indicators for when they are going to go into labour. \u00a0I am feeling the ligaments morning and night when I feed them. \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fiascofarm.com\/goats\/prenatalcare.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fiasco Farm<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dummies.com\/how-to\/content\/how-to-tell-when-your-goat-will-kid.html\" target=\"_blank\">Raising Goats for Dummies<\/a>\u00a0have some good images. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-23-17.35.47.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4314 alignright\" alt=\"2013-08-23 17.35.47\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-23-17.35.47-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-23-17.35.47-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-23-17.35.47.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>She is spending more time laying down chewing the cud and is eating a wider variety of food, including lots of capeweed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt a kid move inside Midge today for the first time. \u00a0I have been massaging her lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[24,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130823-021.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4303"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4339,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions\/4339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}