My dearest goat is in the throes of giving birth as I type. This is the same goat that gave birth to her baby last year and as soon as it was delivered she walked off and left baby still in the birth sac on the ground (happy ending eventually after two weeks of hard work). So we've kept a constant vigil since she went into labour in the field yesterday. She passed a bloody mucus plug at 7pm last night, I think her waters broke at 11pm (though it could have been just wet grass but it seemed very wet), she thrashed about in the grass a bit and at 1am thankfully made her way to the goat house. I stayed up with my husband until 2am (then I went to
feed our own baby!) and he sat vigil til 5am. I took over at 5. But still nothing and this is 7.45am. She has contractions once every 3-5 mins and is prepared to munch a bit of food in between. She seems tired but not distressed. I have had a feel around in the birth canal but I can't feel anything. Can a goat labour go on this long?
Should I be actively getting 'right in there' and helping things along (I instinctly push against that as I'm a homebirth non-interventionist human mother - at least I *think* I'm human
)
Off to see where we're at.
