Today marks day 161 in Sadie’s pregnancy, putting us close to the halfway point. My anxiety level has not decreased, and probably won’t for oh, I dunno… ever? I stalked the hell out of the Burghley young horse championship results and the Bundeschampionate results, obsessing over the Mighty Magic babies. Fun fact: a MM won the 4yo final at Burghley.
It’s fun to keep track of where Sadie is in her gestation though (it keeps my mind off of how ridiculously long this takes and how easily it could all go wrong) and I particularly love this little timeline:
Currently Baby Presto is about the size of a rabbit. A big rabbit.
Day 150 – Gaining more than a pound every 10 days, the fetus now is about the size of a rabbit. Hair graces its chin, muzzle, and eyelids. If you look closely, you’ll see that eyelashes have emerged.
Considering how giant and floppy Sadie’s ears are, there are lots of jokes to be made here with the rabbit thing. My friend Michelle’s favorite looks something like this:
Momma Mare, however, seems unperturbed by our attempts at comedy and keeps right on doing what she does best: eating food and growing babies. Good girl, Momma Mare. Good girl. ❤
6 more months… just 6 more long, agonizing, anxiety-ridden, super obsessive, crazy months…
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you will be insane in 3 months i wager LOL! (Wait..more insane?? is that possible? ) ha ha h Presto and Rabbits and i am just giggling here all by myself…
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Bahaha! That timeline is most excellent
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Love this! Is Sadie yours? So exciting. I was turbo anxious the whole time my mare was pregnant. I ALMOST couldn’t enjoy when the foal was born because of the residual anxiety. I got over it lol. I have a 6 month gestation picture of my mare too.
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Yep, Sadie is mine. I actually bred her as well so I’ve had her since she was born.
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So fun!
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Maybe I wasn’t anxious enough after breeding Gina haha! Good thoughts for a healthy pregnancy for Sadie!
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I live in constant fear of something happening. Anxiety level 11.
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Right there with you. I like your posts like this because I can determine where Paige is. I think we’re in intro rabbit stage now? I’m bad at math and figuring out how many days we are. If Paige’s physique is any indication, we have a fat rabbit brewing.
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if you know the date she was bred, this is an easy calculator: https://www.timeanddate.com/date/timeduration.html
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137 days! Thanks! So we’re almost to rabbit stage I guess. 🙂 I feel like the next few stages are huge increments compared to the previous ones.
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As someone who had rabbits, I have to point out that they come in lots of sizes and the rabbit pictured is a dutch rabbit, which is actually pretty small as rabbit go.
The beagle makes more sense. I’ll just focus on that one.
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a beagle/rabbit hybrid.
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This is so exciting! Just 6 more months!!
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Only! 😉
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Love the size references, human babies grow, but the size change that happens to a foal in a similar amount of time is really rather astounding. I took for granted how many pregnant mares I saw as a kid that did fine til one didn’t, then it sunk in the risks of it all. Your mare looks happily pregnant.
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Omg. That pic of “Presto” going xc is hilarious. Also the rabbit stage is fitting for the name – can’t wait to see what Sadie pulls out of her hat!
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Me too. As long as it’s healthy (gross, I sound like human parents)!
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I don’t know how you’re handling the wait… Why do horse babies take so long?!
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I’m not handling anything very well at the moment lol
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Love that pic of Presto on XC hahaha! 6 months is not that long of a time…. but the wait would kill me too.
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I love that timeline! I bet the six months will fly by!
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It’s like the app for when I was prego too lol!!!
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