Two Females! - Born: September 16, 2009
The dark girl is called Ziva, (Hebrew for splendid) and the white girl is Zuri, (French for white and lovely).
Weights at birth: Ziva - 5 lbs 13 oz ; Zuri - 6 lbs 14 oz
All is doing well. See below for the story.

When one of Carl and Freda McGills girls decided to have her baby, while Freda was teaching a Fiber class, Freda thought ‘no big deal, I’ll de- liver, get Jody (Sharp) to come and keep an eye on mom and the baby and I’ll get on with the class’. That worked great for about 45 minutes, until a second nose appeared above the first placenta, which had not dropped yet. At that point Freda’s “fiber class” turned into a “neo-natal class”.

After a major struggle, mom had quit pushing; the second little girl was out. Although she was breathing her body temperature was so low that she was grey. So with Freda in sweats and babies in plastic bags, all but their heads, everyone was in a tub of warm water trying to bring up body temperatures.

When Carl got home from school he could only look with disbelief at a kitchen full of friends and two of the smallest crias he had ever seen wrapped around hot water bottles. Baby one is dark brown to bay black and she weighed in at 5 lbs 13 ozs. Baby two is white and she weighed in at 6 lbs 14 ozs. Born about a week early, their combined weight was less than a normal healthy cria. Both were so small that, if they could have stood to nurse, they would have had problems reaching mom. and wonderful friends it seems to have worked. Diane Cribley had frozen colostrum, Jody Sharp took shifts milking and feeding and Cheryl and Michael Swanson brought food for everyone and helped milk and feed. It was truly a group effort that brought the babies to where they are. They were born on Wednesday September 16th and on Sunday afternoon the dark baby nursed from mom for the first time. On Monday, even though she would have rather had the easy bottle, the white baby latched onto mom as well. Being a maiden, mom probably thinks two babies is normal and lets them both nurse at the same time. At the time of this writing they are three weeks old. They are both pushing thirteen pounds and doing well. The dark girl is called Ziva, (Hebrew for splendid) and the white girl is Zuri, (French for white and lovely). When the weather is nice they spend their days out with the other moms and crias but because of their size and the cold weather, they still live in the house and all three are being spoiled rotten.