The second night up waiting for Lily to go into labor was hard and now unless she delivers today we will have a 3rd disturbed night. She tested right at 250 last night giving us an (according to the foal predictor test kit) 84% chance of delivery within the next 24 hours. Mares are able to hold off delivery for a while, she probably felt last night was just too cold to go into labor. I am thankful for the foaling monitor, at least we didn't have to sleep in the barn. The monitor's sound was so good that every time she urinated we were sure her water was breaking. Just guess how many times a night a heavily pregnant mare has to go. At 4:35am I gave up and came home to crawl into my nice warm soft bed. The very worst part of the entire night and morning was I forgot to make and set the coffee maker. Thankfully there was about a cup left over from yesterday.
Lily will be left inside today, we won't take a chance of her delivering outside while we are gone.
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