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I hope this makes you feel a little better...
Unless the female gave birth under something and then sat on top of that and smothered the babies your babies were probably born dead. My experience is that Boas do not crush their own live babies. I have watched a female for hours after having babies to see her crawl ever so carefully through the mass of babies and goo with ever resting on top of a baby. This is an amazing miracle of "evolution" LOL (I am not a believer in everything that novelist Darwin wrote) to see. Just the same it is a wonderful thing to see when you have the chance too see it. I have a Peruvian that gave birth this morning. Unfortunately she only had one baby and 28 slugs but she has avoided the baby and messed all over the slugs. Boas have an instinct to help and or protect new born babies. Resting on top of babies would tell me they were probably born dead. Still born for some reason. That is my opinion. It's very hard to believe the entire litter could have been smashed my the mother. A few perhaps but not the whole litter. It would have been more likely you would have found her with babies all over her back looking around to protect those babies from YOU! She may have still been doing this even though they were already dead.
Not a lot of comfort here I am afraid but there probably wasn't anything you could have done.
Sorry about that,
Jeff
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