Raising children is not an easy job for all parents. What more if you are a parent of two or more? We can assume that it would be really challenging.

Betsy Ross from Visalia, California probably knows how it feels as she is a mother of three.

She has surely established effective parenting ways over the years of being a mother. She already knows well how to handle her children.

Something bizarre happened to this amazing mom and it manifested how great she is a person and as a mom.

During a family trip to the park to play pickleball, she and her family unexpectedly saw a heartbreaking sight.

They bumped into duck nests – and it looked like someone had smashed them. They unhesitatingly checked if there are some eggs that were broken.

A lone egg was there.

It had a little crack but it was still intact – which encouraged Betsy to save it. She did not simply take it home, she decided to incubate it.

She badly wanted to help it so she made sure that it goes through the proper hatching process – and she did not forget to keep it warm, which is the main requirement in incubating it.

The compassionate mother kept it in her bra.

Since she couldn’t afford an incubator at that time, she placed the lone egg in her bra for 35 days. Yes, you heard it right.

“I was off work for the summer. That’s why it was in my bra and not in an incubator lol I couldn’t afford one at the time. I am plus size so it fit snug,” she commented on her reddit post.

In an interview with Bored Panda, Betsy also talked about how she asked help from a local wildlife place as hatching egg is something new to her.

“I couldn’t afford an incubator, so I called our local wildlife place [but] they told me they didn’t take eggs,” she said.

“So I put the egg in my bra to keep it warm and started researching online how to hatch a duck.”

What she did sounds challenging – it really was.

She went through several difficulties in keeping the egg.

Aside from making sure that she turns it 4-5 times a day, she sleeps with it too.

When it started to hatch, she found out that she needed to stop rotating it. It also requires a lot more humidity.

To come up with a suitable hatching box, she used a plastic container, a lamp, gallon bags, a bowl of water, and some tape.

She was doing a great job but she encountered more complications along the way.

She called a vet and informed her about what happened to the duckling – it was being shrink-wrapped by the membrane in the egg so Betsy had to do something about it.

She was told to do a daunting process that would save the baby from that situation. She had to slowly remove the shell. She also had to ensure two things: to avoid any veins while peeling and to make sure that he could breathe.

The thing is the newborn was still connected to the yolk on the bottom of the egg so she shared what she did:

“I got a wet paper towel and wrapped it around the shell with the yolk and put Neosporin on it so it wouldn’t get infected. Maybe not the best idea but I was scared.”

She so brave and the duckling was a fighter – which made them both victorious!

When the duckling was finally recovering, he did not walk for a couple of days. After that, he finally enjoyed his life and started exploring.

“One day, we woke up and he was walking. Later on, I would let him swim in the tub and mud puddles.”

From a cracked egg that was all alone on ruined nests, it turned into an adorable duck. Betsy’s kids even named him Thawne from the Flash.

She also shared how attached Thawn is to her.

“He would follow me and when he heard my voice, he would lose it and scream. He seemed to know when I left without him because my husband complained that he would sit and cry.”

All thanks to Betsy’s love and care as well as the help of her family for giving Thawne a chance to live. He is now doing good after they turned him over to a rescue farm nearby.

See her full journey here:

Saved a cracked egg! Carried it in my bra for 35 days. It was born prematurely he was still attached to the yolk and it was not absorbed so I got a wet paper towel and applied antibiotic on its cord and tummy twice a day.Surprised he didn’t die.
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Source: Bored Panda, Reddit