Cinnamon. Rescue mare: **FILLY**!!!!!!!!!

[amystours]

Cinnamon's hooha is relaxed and red, her tail head is firm, her pH and calcium is still way high, amd she didn't finish her breakfast, dinner, OR supper! To make matters even more peculiar, she ate only two treats!!! This stuff is horse crack! They CAN'T turn it down! Even the Belgian mares, who eat NO treats, love them!!

Since we are, after all, a nursery, I would love to introduce my niece, Kenlee!! She was born at 24 weeks, weighing only one pound and nine ounces. In this pic, she is two weeks old, and almost weighs two pounds! She is doing amazing! I had three premature babies as well, and I lost one of them, so we know only too well the joys and pains of a level 3 NICU. The carriage comoany is a PROUD sponsor of the March of Dimes, and they are having a walk here on Saturday.

 

[MyGoldenSunny]

Lol! Love that pic of Cin! And I'm gonna fight Mindy for Ike! ; D j/k but really lol

Oooh what is that little Cin up to?!?! We are ready to see your baby!

Awww how sweet that little baby is! Makes me want to cry looking at her, and thinking about my babies. So glad she is doing good! And so sorry to hear of your loss : (

 

Cinnamon's hooha is relaxed and red, her tail head is firm, her pH and calcium is still way high, amd she didn't finish her breakfast, dinner, OR supper! To make matters even more peculiar, she ate only two treats!!! This stuff is horse crack! They CAN'T turn it down! Even the Belgian mares, who eat NO treats, love them!!

Since we are, after all, a nursery, I would love to introduce my niece, Kenlee!! She was born at 24 weeks, weighing only one pound and nine ounces. In this pic, she is two weeks old, and almost weighs two pounds! She is doing amazing! I had three premature babies as well, and I lost one of them, so we know only too well the joys and pains of a level 3 NICU. The carriage comoany is a PROUD sponsor of the March of Dimes, and they are having a walk here on Saturday.

I, too, know the inside of a NICU nursery -- but before they could save these extreme little ones -- as my oldest will be 38 this year, and was my 6th pregnancy and the first that could be saved. All of mine except one were premature, and out of 13 pregnancies, I had 3 successful births with a set of twins. Then 1 adopted daughter, as we gave up trying. I wanted 6 children, and had to settle for 5.

My niece's little boy was 24 weeker weighing in at 1 pound 13 ounces -- and now he's a healthy bouncing almost 2 year old. It's a miracle what medicine can accomplish with these little ones in today's world. Sending prayers for this little one,

and thank you for sharing her picture! Please keep us posted on her, too.

 

[AnnaC]

Oh sending prayers for little Kenlee, it sounds as though she is making good progress, bless her - it is indeed amazing what they can do for premmie babies these days isn't it, but I always feel so sorry for the little ones and their parents when they have to miss out on all the cuddes and comforting that full term babies enjoy. Please let us know how things go.

Many years ago I owned a farm that had 'bottomless pits' on it, and one could be tractoring happily across a field minding one's business and concentrating on the job in hand, when WHOOOOP's the tractor sunk to wheel depth!! It always took several other tractors, 4x4's even long chains wrapped round handy huge trees to get the sunk victim back onto 'dry' ground!! We soon learnt where these sink hole were. LOL!!

 

[Eagle]

Amy she is such a sweet heart

I have never had a premie and I imagine it must be very worrying, I am sending prayers that she grows big and strong very soon.

I am glad your field / mud adventure turned out well, that must have been scary. My ex used to throw fits when I did stuff like that

Why is it the mud popped up for me and never for him

 

[amystours]

It certainly is amazing the things they can do now. My first preemie was an experience. He was a 30 week baby. Basically with him, the membranes ruptured at 24 weeks and they couldn't tell. Docs in Savannah told me this baby had no functioning kidneys, and would die within hours of being born, and advised abortion. Say what?? I still have the letter they sent me, saying that's what was medically advised, although they called it "pregnancy interruption". Sorry, I just couldn't do that.That was 18 years ago, and he graduates high school next week!! With Nathan, I was having a placental abruption at 34 weeks, and I had an emergency c-section, but it was too late for a good outlook. He only lived for 5 hours. He would be turning 14 on the 7th of May. My daughter was sort of an "oops". The doc who delivered Nathan told me if I became pregnant again, it would kill both me and the baby, yet he did not perform a tubal ligation like I had requested and signed permission for. He said his goal was to save me, as I had flatlined on the table. Anyway, we moved to Dallas that year. I ended up with a nasty case of food poisoning. Think I threw up for two nights and three days. I was afraid I was gonna die!! Then I was afraid I WOULDN'T!! It was horrible. Doc there told then-hubby if he had waited another two hours to bring me in, I'd be dead from dehydration. Anyway, that story has a point. The meds I was put on afterwards somehow reacted with my birth control pill, amd rendered it useless. I was pregnant again, after being told not to. Being in Dallas, I went to a very respected specialist. I had appointments almost every week. One day I went in, and he said that today was birthday, because placenta was attempting to separate again. So Amara was born at 30 weeks. She spent 3 months in NICU and it was touch and go with her for a while. She's the one who disappeared the other night!!! My first kiddo was term, huge, and is 19 now.

It just amazes me at medical advances for micro preemies!! Diane, I can't begin to imagine your heartache. I lost my mind, my job, my friends, and eventually my husband when I lost that baby. They say the Lord will never give us more than we can handle, but I feel he has too much faith in me!

 

[amystours]

Someone did some shopping! !!

 

[amystours]

I started looking through pics, and was just amazed at the transformation.

We went from this:

To this:

From this:

To this:

Next post...

 

[amystours]

From this:

To this:

And finally, from this:

To this:

I'm amazed this is the same poor horse!!

 

[Evelynk2000]

That beautiful round lady is so lucky you found her in time! I can't imagine the conditions she lived in before, to look that poorly

. Are you doing ok with all your other horses? I wanted to jump through the computer screen and give your old "landlord" one of those CSI head smacks.

 

[amystours]

Thank you!!! All carriage horses have adjusted very well. Poor Sampson hasn't had a different stall for over 10 years, but he quickly learned where he was supposed to be! We threw this together because we were being rushed, but will eventually enclose this area for them. They are only stalled to eat, the rest of the time, they are in the pasture.

Little Cinnamon is starting to make us nervous. Of course it's been in the 80s here, but tonight and tomorrow night, we are supposed to have lows in the 40s...not good camping-in-the-stall weather or birthing weather!! She still needs to do some rolling, but she can do that rather quickly.

 

[Eagle]

I am so sorry to hear about your troubles, you are in incredible woman to have come through all that as is Diane.

Cinnamon is doing fantastic in your care, you should be proud of yourself. How is her udder and hooha looking?

 

[SummerTime]

WOW!! Great job!!

 

[amystours]

Renee, look on previous page for udder shot.

 

[Eagle]

OMG she has been to the springs sales and bought the shop

How did I miss those mama's. What does her hooha look like or did I miss that too?

 

[amystours]

Haha!! No ma'am, I didn't post hooha. Making a special promise to you that I'll post one this afternoon! When I saw the udder this morning, my mouth just kinda fell open and I just sat staring for a minute. Then I yipped, scaring her. When she settled back down, I got enough to test and took that pic.

 

[Eagle]

This is exciting stuff, I am so curious to see what she is hiding.

 

[amystours]

I'm so ready! Wish I could hire someone to transport my carriage horses and do my weddings this weekend!! The March of Dimes walk is Saturday morning, and the wedding that evening is for the mayor's daughter, so I feel obligated to do that one myself, since he is finding us a place in the historic district to keep our carriages.

Ooooh, if I had known an approximate date, I wouldn't have booked ANYTHING for a month!! Haha!

 

[amystours]

Anybody have any guesses when she will foal?? Bets? ; )

 

[Eagle]

Can you post recent pics, side, back, hooha and udder? Then we can guess/bet