This happens to my friend ghost ball python female too, but much worst than this, he found the eggs scattered around the females and full of bloods! really a mess! he don't do any palpating, the eggs just came out by themselves, maybe the mom had some issued before. He then wiped out all the eggs and put them in the incubator, the bad news is the mom dead a few days after that, and the good news is surprisingly 2 of the 5 eggs hatched!