Long story short is I want to know the noticeable differences between a ball pythons behavior when pregnant compared to having a blockage. Couple months ago I stopped breeding my Yellowbelly girl to her YB boyfriend. Over the course of a couple months I had seen them lock personally 4 times, not sure if more while I'm gone at work A little bit around that time , different things were happening . My girl stopped eating completely after months and month of successful FT small rat weekly feedings. She's had a history of not taking many bowel movements but rather have a big one now and then. I havnt seen her bowel movement for over 3 months at least now. So no appetite and no bowel movements. She's been lethargic and won't leave her hide. It seems everything she does is both possible things that I've been told can happen with both pregnancy a d constipation. I just checked on her one day and I noticed the large swollen part of her body 2 thirds down which again, could be a sign of both things . Sent pictures to my breeder I go through, and he's being optimistic and saying she may be ovulating and check if she sheds in the next 3ish weeks or so. If I palpate her I cant tell if I'm feeling hard urate or follicles. Don't wanna press too hard. I've given her a 30 minute bath and a soft massage and nothing changed afterwards . Even though I say she's lethargic , when I grab her and pick her up, her tongues flicking good and she has her normal physical responses such as quickly hiding her head if I move too fast bear her face and such. I lay her on the bed and she likes to move around but she doesn't wanna move her lower half very much. Had to stop her from falling off the edge a couple times.
So again, I'd like people's advice and experiences with gravid behavior and blockage behaviors. I have to travel a couple hours to the nearest snake seeing vet unfortunately so I won't unless I feel the need is dire. I'm hoping she's just gravid and I'm being overly zealous about it. Her enclosure is fine and everything. Hot side is around 88 where I am right now, humidity I admit is a bit low but I try to compensate it as much as I can. And she's lived normally on coconut husk fine substrate for a couple years now. Please give me what you got 🙏