I had missed quite a bit of school this kidding season and for Athena's due date, my mom stayed home. On the drive home, I got a text saying that me and Dad should pick up a pizza and that Athena had done nothing exciting all day. We picked up pizza, and on the way home I got a text "Contractions," but misread it as "Congratulations" and I thought that the long awaited doeling I wanted from Athena had been born. We rushed home to find Athena hadn't kidded. In fact, it seemed like Athen had waited for me. Mom had told her I was on my way home, and barely twenty minutes after I got home, Athena went into hard labor and the first little doeling came out. As always, Athena wasn't totally dilated, so I had spent about ten minutes massaging her cervix, but the doeling came out relatively easily, although Athena still ripped quite a bit. Athena bled a lot from the rip, but it didn't seem to affect her until after she had finished kidding. The second doeling came out pretty soon after that. On one of these (I can't recall which), it tried to come head first and I had to push it back to find a leg, while the other came out in a perfect nose and toes position. Athena took a half an hour nap after kidding and didn't bother to get up for another hour and a half. After that, she passed her placenta easily and I was able to milk her out. This kidding was pretty undramatic and produced two beautiful doelings. Both were strong and Athena did great! She made a massive amount of colostrum and we ended up using it for some of the other girl's kids as well. And of course, we had to share some of our pizza with her as a thanks for the two girls.
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