07-06-2017, 03:23 PM
Hey Dave, sorry for the late reply. We were at the Rendy when you posted this and by the time we got back I'd forgotten that I hadn't replied. Thanks for the kind words. We'll be getting a kid puller for next time, although I'm not sure it would have helped much in this case. Our main difficulty was that we couldn't reach in far enough. Tigerlily was not dilated properly and the womb itself was extremely tight as well. The kid's head was so far back it was touching his tail and we couldn't get our fingers to reach past the head. It wasn't until right at the end that I was finally able to get my arm in past the elbow. I made a mistake in bringing the feet out when I found them because once they were out there simply wasn't enough room to reach in far enough for the head. Once the feet were out, we couldn't get them to go back against Tigerlily's contractions until she was finally too exhausted to push any more. At that point I put the feet back and was able to reach the head. It was an ordeal, but I think I learned a lot from it, and thankfully Tigerlily seems to have made a full recovery.