[Jacob-list] False labor???

[Robvcas at aol.com]

Sue, I just went thru the same thing with one of my ewes, although her labor 
was more insistant.  All she showed was a pink bulge, so after awhile I 
checked her up close, and found that the bulge was the butt end of a breech 
baby that was pushing up instead of down and out.  The lamb was tiny, so I 
was able to work one rear leg and then the other out and pull downward with 
her contractions.  She was a first timer,  and with all the unfruitful 
contractions,  she managed to prolapse her uterus right after the lamb !  I 
carefully put it back, but she pushed it right back out, so I called in the 
vet.  She replaced and stitched her closed, and I've been giving her pain med 
and penicillin injections for what seems like forever !  She and the lamb are 
fine tho, but the lamb (a ram of course ! ) is still very tiny at 8 days of 
age.  He may have been slightly early, he didn't look 'finished' when he was 
born-all skin and bones.  So today I try to get those stitches out.... Robin 
Casasanto