12/11/12, 09:50 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Ozark Mountains
Posts: 1,116
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Originally Posted by Cygnet
How early are they?
I HATE finding chilled kids. I'm lousy at resuscitating them. You have my respect for bring one back from that hypothermic.
Noting the discussion up thread on weights -- FWIW, it always seems like it's the BIG kids that are wimpy on me.
And this is a bit of an extreme -- but even the tiniest newborns aren't always sickly. I had 15.2 ounce kid born last winter who was otherwise healthy at birth, just startlingly small. She was full term and vigorous and did just fine -- no issues other than being small. She was the smallest of triplets, and her siblings were much bigger.
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She was hand bred and due the 22nd. She had them around midnight on the 8th/9th. I truly had little hope when the kids woke me up but they are in incredible shape and I have taken NO CHANCES getting them chilled.
I, too, have had SMALL kids full-term. However, they are usually trips or quads. No, these boys were just twins and DEFINITELY early. They have NO teeth through the gums but are VERY vigorous. I wouldn't have taken a bet (not that I even buy lottery tickets, LOL) on Ozzy making it after first laying my eyes on him. HOT WATER was what got him going. I'm telling you, I have dealt with more than my share of hypothermic kids and TEMP is the key! Don't feed them TRYING to warm them...It KILLS them...dead.
They are still doing great today. Just like any preemie, they eat and sleep more than anything else. You can almost watch them grow...
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