Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Mimi's belly


So we all thought that Mimi was just finally growing fat but surprise surprise, Mimi was actually pregnant! It turns out that my mum was right about her being a girl after all. We had actually already separated Mimi and Bibi but I still put them together for a while sometimes as I thought it was quite sad to separate them. We were not sure when they mated but my mum said she noticed something slightly different in the way Bibi chased Mimi. 

Anyway, Mimi gave birth to the first baby on the 28Mar around 12.20am. The third one came out around 1am. There were three little pink babies! We did not name them but could tell them apart. The first baby had its hind legs stuck together, the second one had a slightly darker head and the last one was the smallest of all.

On the first night, Mimi kept licking and rolling the first baby and eventually she managed to open up the knot, the hind legs. However, that night, the first baby did not survive and passed away around 10pm. The next day, we woke up to find the second baby dead as well. The time of death was probably around 8.30am.

We were kinda sad and wished the last one would survive. Mimi finally learned how to breast feed the baby and it was doing well the whole day. However, the next day when I woke up at 7am, the last baby was dead too. Mimi started eating its head at 8am.

So, that was the end of the three babies. Day by day, one by one they did not survive. Perhaps that was because Mimi was only about two and a half months old and thus was not experienced enough. She seems to be doing fine now. 

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