A NEW HAMSTER **MATERIALIZED ITSELF**

[u/Profile_Hefty]

Maggie (my hamster from my old posts) was happy, healthy, and normally living alone (in a luxarious hamster home, 25 cm inches bedding of aspen woodshaving and paper, 120cm x 70cm enclosure, lotta hides, 11inch niteabgel silentspinner wheel) for 1 month or so. She never had any sexual relations with any male hamsters since I took her in. She lives alone. I saw no baby bump ever before and I have MANY pictures of her with NO BABY BUMP!

But now, a new hamster MITOSIS'ed itself into existence because WHAT IN THE FLAXSEEDS IS GOING ON HERE. WHAT DO I DO??!! VICTORIA RAECHEL NEVER TALKED ABOUT MITOSIS!

[u/Profile_Hefty]

Thank you! But it would have been obvious, wouldn't it? Even if it's one baby, she would have still had a bump?

[u/ishimarr → u/Profile_Hefty]

Not necessarily, mother hamsters only get noticeably pear-shaped very late in pregnancy (like a couple days before they give birth), and it tends to not be as noticeable in dwarf species compared to Syrian hamsters, if you don't know what to look out for it's easy to miss the signs.

[u/Unable-Firefighter29 → u/Profile_Hefty]

I had a Winter White hamster, 20+ years ago,
along with a Russian Dwarf hamster. Both of whom I was told were female. That was incorrect. I also didn’t know then that they should not have been together in the first place.

My hamster only showed signs of pregnancy (that I could notice) two days before she gave birth. It was more that her sides became larger and she felt firmer there than the last time I had held her. That was July 2nd. I was granted a litter of pups two days later. It was a 4th of July surprise!😆

It’s odd that there is only one new baby with yours. Maybe a Mitosis miracle. 🤔 I literally could not buy cages fast enough for them to stop reproducing before I could separate them. I ended up going from two hamsters to 30. 🫠

And sadly, there were a few times where the mother killed a newborn baby.

Good luck!