If the udder is bleeding, use/pour on Peroxide to stop the bleeding, be sure the udder is clean and with clean hands, smear a good fresh honey on it.
Use same treatment for humans.
After kidding, 2 gallons of hot water, a good handful of salt and one to 2 cups of honey.
It will replace the chemicals that the stress of birthing takes out.
There is a medical name for it too, some kind of shock.
For goats, they can do the shock bit, but will also get a caked udder and can die, as women do.
From a granny vantage point, not a trained one, I think it takes the salt and sugar out of the blood, and if women were given honey and salt to replace it, it might take care of some of those after birth blues, you know the ones we hear about and sometimes leads to drowning all your kids, cause you can’t handle it all.
I don’t know how many women I have heard say “I have never been strong since the baby came”.
Did anyone check the blood of the woman?
So, If I ever attend a birth, they are getting honey and salt.
That is about all you need, except vinegar in the drinking water, or lemon juice if you can afford it.
In the heat, my cats, dogs, poultry, and goats get a dash of vinegar in the water, just as we put a slice of lemon in our water when thirsty.
Mary said during the depression, they could not afford lemons in the water, so used vinegar.
And it is cold tonight.
I had my second child at home with a midwife to deliver her. The midwife was an older lady who came out of the depression. After giving birth I also apprenticed with her as a midwife for a couple of years. She had strict rules about birth. Moms were to be fed meals of their choosing after giving birth for 2 weeks. Dads were to see that their wives did not have to jump right back to strenuous physical activity. She encouraged supplements before and after birth and lots of fruits and electrolytes. But, your body will always tell you what it needs if you let it. So she preached that new moms should always eat what they hungered for.
I always laugh about hospital birth stories. My daughter was born at home at 6:09AM on June 12. Then my midwife fixed me a big breakfast of sausage and homemade buttermilk biscuits with sliced fresh tomatoes. She went to my garden and picked the tomatoes for me. She put my dirty linens from the birth in the washer, picked the plums that were ripe off my tree for me because I was worried about them, blanched them, dropped them in the deep freeze, got my sheets out of the wash and hung them to dry and by that time my Grama and mom had arrived. She told them I needed to drink Gatorade that day (she knew I liked it) and that I should be given anything in the world to eat that I thought I was hungry for. Said my body would know what it needed. Then, she went home.
Experience was a lot different with my first daughter in the hospital. Given that there are no problems I'd recommend childbearing at home to anyone.