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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOMG! Will April the giraffe deliver already??!
I feel so bad for her. Yes, yes, with all going on in the world I'm worried about a giraffe mamma.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)elleng
(131,176 posts)Worked for me!
Siwsan
(26,298 posts)Every time I'd see that tail go up, I'd think "OOO - Finally the baby!!" but it would always be another poo.
I finally gave up and fell asleep.
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)to see something, but I'm sure she'll deliver at 2:30 in the morning when I'm asleep! LOL
Laffy Kat
(16,388 posts)Maybe not?
csziggy
(34,138 posts)It never did for my mares. I had one graze while she was lying down with her foal partway out. She was completely casual about the event an didn't see any reason to ignore the green grass right there in her face.
Laffy Kat
(16,388 posts)And I've known women who were starving during the first stages of labor.
Fla Dem
(23,768 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,388 posts)I'm having sympathetic Braxton Hicks contractions and I don't even have a uterus anymore.
Donkees
(31,474 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,388 posts)I can remember being so pregnant I could only sleep sitting up in a recliner. Can you imagine carrying around a six foot, 150 pound baby--with hooves?