Hamster having stillborns?

Question

my hamster drake which is suppose to be boy turns out that hes a she..i found out this morning when she went into labor..shes had two baby since 12:00 this morning..but they were both stillborn..does anyone no y my hamster would be having them??and is there any chance se might have more??or have a live one

Answer 1

Our gerbils used to give birth to six at a time with one or two stillborns.

This was probably your hamster's first litter.

Answer 2

Did you get her recently? If so, sometimes employees (or customers if you can freely handle the animals in the store) can sometimes mix the genders and the mating could have happened then.

Do you know how old she is? Sometimes when the hamster is too young, she can't handle holding a litter and the babies die.

Did you feed her a lot? If you forgot to feed her for a while at any time, then you may have deprived the babies from getting nutrients.

She may or may not have more, but the average litter is eight pups.