The ewe and the new

Saturday, my busiest work day. I go out to feed and find that one of my ewes has a vaginal prolapse. Great, I have to go open the shop, 20 miles away, then come back to "fix" the ewe. Nobody home that day of the very few people I know that could hold a ewe for me. I end up calling the woman that I bought my guineas and goats from. I know last year was her first year with goats but she has horses so I figure she should know how to hold a ewe. I call her and she said she'd be right out to help. I meet them at the Family Dollar near my house and they follow me home. As we go out to the sheep to access the situation she informs me she has fixed prolapse on dogs and horses. So what are the chances of me finding the one person out of the handful I know that could just maybe help me hold the ewe, that have actually handled this situation? Wow! She told me what to get, her husband held the ewe and I kinda stood around like and idiot while she pushed the mess all back inside. She said she isn't really familiar with the inner workings of a ewe having only done the procedure on canines and equines, but she did not feel any lambs inside and didn't think the ewe was pregnant. I said she did seem to have a bigger udder than she did, but she is an older ewe and has lambed a few times before. She felt everything went back in place easily and felt right and we decided not to try to do the twine harness thing as neither of us knew  how anyway. I was going to get an antibiotic but wanted to find out which is good for possibly pregnant ewes. Next morning the ewe had a slimy, slightly greenish discharge. I of course thought infection and panicked, as usual. Then I watched the ewe and thought she seemed restless like a ewe in labor. When I was in the shelter feeding my doe that had a 4 day old kid, the kid was left outside while the piggy Mom left to get her grain. When the kid started crying, the ewe went over and was doing those mama bleats to the kid. That's when my mind started calming down and seeing things in a different light. Aha...she's in labor. Well she was very restless, kept pawing and trying to lay down, then would stand back up. This went on for a while and I finally decided I'd better go check her out, so I got a bucket of warm soapy water, my shoulder length obstetric gloves, betadine and towels and a dog and started to go out to where the ewe is. I had just rounded the corner of the house when Jenna says, she's just had her lamb. Sheesh could she not have had it about 5 minutes earlier? Before my gathering up all that now useless stuff? She had one big ram lamb. Both mama and baby are doing just fine. I raised goats for over 15 years and have had to deliver largish stuck babies, dead babies etc. I've done all my own castrating, disbudding, shots etc. I've had ewes and lambs before but for some reason I felt like a complete newbie with this one. This ewe was one of the 3 I had that either been stolen or let out by someone and ran free for 3 weeks before it was caught. The other 2 were never caught. After the prolapse I figured I'd gone through enough bad with this ewe so I'm glad she had one nice lamb. He will be banded and she won't be bred again. Her teats were blocked and the lamb could not get anything try as he might and he was getting discouraged so I unblocked them and then he was fine. She is not the most friendly ewe and after her 3 weeks of freedom in the wild she gets in a panic if she thinks I'm trying to catch her so it was no easy feat. This was about 5 minutes after she gave birth.