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What we didn’t realize at the time was that we had a very serious problem developing and that was the placenta was not passed by Shanthi, and in fact it wasn’t passed fully for 25 days. Now what happens in this situation is the placenta is acting almost like an organ inside; it’s sending out signals that there is no baby out there; do not produce milk. Whereas the baby’s going, well, let’s get some milk, Mom. Let’s have something out of these nipples. And it was a conflict that was going - waging war in Shanthi’s body in some ways, and it was a very difficult situation because one, the placenta being retained like that could cause serious infection, and two, it was limiting the amount of milk available for the calf. So Kumari did not do well for the first ten days; she was losing weight regularly. We had round the clock coverage.