Well, I couldn't make myself cut her open, so we rushed her to an emergency vet. They could detect no heartbeats at all, so if there were viable young, they have all passed away as well. She could have been dead anywhere from a half hour up to 3 or 4 hours when I found her, and the exotic vet said that had we found her even a few minutes after her death, we would have had only a tiny window in which to cut her open and have any babies survive.

She will be sent to have a necropsy by our normal herp vet (the emergency vet tried to get us to leave her there and said everything about the tissue samples - which I declined anyway because I am VERY certain she died trying to pass a slug that got stuck - a disease wouldn't cause that).

I knew there was always a risk when breeding, but hoped it wouldn't happen... and it's just so shocking because earlier this morning she seemed fine. She must've started labor after I left the house to run errands, I wish I would have been home.
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Lauren Madar - OphidiaGems.com
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