There were 156 live births of animals at the Minnesota State Fair's Miracle of Birth Center before the popular facility was shut down early to avoid Monday's hot temperatures.
All during the fair, one expectant mother was being watched just as carefully as the mother cows, pigs, sheep, and goats.
Volunteer Megan Seifert of Long Prairie is nearly eight months pregnant, and part of a running joke among staffers and even fairgoers.
"It's always fun when people ask me who's next, especially that now we are done birthing for the fair," said Megan, shifting in her seat to get more comfortable.
"I can point to myself," she said. "You just gotta have fun with it. Everybody thinks it's pretty funny."
But there were some veterinarians on staff that seriously offered their services if Megan went into labor early.
"I've been offered the biggest pen so that I have lots of space," she said. "I'd really have a great environment, and they might even shut the doors and close it down for me."
The semi-serious look on Megan's face melted into a big smile when asked if she'd really give birth inside a pen, on a stage, with cameras rolling, and people watching.
"No, no, no, no, no, no! I should have enough time to make it to a hospital."
Megan is a teacher in the Merose school district and lives on her family's dairy farm in Long Prairie, where her husband and first child are awaiting the new arrival.
This isn't Megan's first time volunteering at the state fair, or her last, but she doesn't expect to be expecting when te fair comes around in 2024
The Miracle of Birth Center was created in 2001 and moved two years later to its current location next to Warner Coliseum.
This is the first time the popular attraction closed down before the fair ended.