Kira's Cria Born Nov. 14, 2010

Today Kira's Cria was born at around 12:05 pm.  He weighed 14.5 lbs.  I had to assist with the birth because only his head was out for about 20 minutes.  She was getting too tired so when she would have a contraction I would hold his legs and slightly pull.  He looks like a little Panda so I have been calling him Panda Boy.

At 1:15 his temperature was 98.2.  Kira was not responding well to him and he wasn't nursing.  When we tried to put him up to her teats she accidentally kicked him in the eye.  His eye was bleeding and we couldn't tell if his eye was injured or not.  We called the vet she came out and examined him and said it was a slight cut on the outside of his eye.  Since he was not nursing she had to tube feed him with colostrum and told us to bottle feed him every two hours.