{"id":4606,"date":"2013-09-06T12:45:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T04:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2013-09-12T16:32:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T08:32:59","slug":"last-minute-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/06\/last-minute-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Minute Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130906-028.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4556\" alt=\"20130906 028\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130906-028-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130906-028-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130906-028.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I took my birthing kit* out and checked on Midge just after 12:30, then rang the breeder at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koonac.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">Koonac<\/a> for some last minute advice. \u00a0He told me that maiden does often have early contractions while trying to position the kids and it could be another 24 hours before she kidded. \u00a0 He advised me just to check on her every hour and not to hang over her as they like to be alone when kidding and will separate themselves from the rest of the herd. \u00a0I took this picture of her at 12:45 as she settled down on the sleeping platform and went and had some lunch.<\/p>\n<p>*Birthing kit<br \/>\nBucket of warm water with betadine wash (in case intervention required to straighten kids\/legs)<br \/>\ntowels for clearing nose and rubbing down kids<br \/>\nscissors for cutting cord to about 50mm\/2&#8243;<br \/>\nBetadine for sterilising cut cord<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took my birthing kit* out and checked on Midge just after 12:30, then rang the breeder at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goats","category-not-so-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130906-028.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=4606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4615,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions\/4615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}