She was absolutely precious! I'm so sorry that you didn't get nearly enough time together (not that any amount could truly be "enough")... but I'm sure you gave her a wonderful life while you could. Losing a beloved pet is always brutal.
I put together my first breeding pair of sugar gliders last spring and thought I was prepared for the potential heartbreak of being a breeder - I was well aware that gliders often reject and/or cannibalize their first (or even second) joey or pair of joeys, so when Tabby got pregnant with her and Lemmy's first joey, I braced myself for the distinct possibility that Tiger (their joey) wouldn't make it. Unfortunately, I wasn't even remotely prepared for the tragedy we ended up facing - Tabitha, with a joey 4 weeks IP (in pouch - gliders are marsupials; pregnant for 16 days followed by 9 weeks of having their joey(s) in their pouch), very suddenly fell deathly ill and passed away about two minutes before we pulled up to the emergency vet around 1 am on her 9 month birthday. Her joey was still alive and the e-vet staff were desperate to come up with a way to save it (the on-call exotics vet was still a few minutes away), but I had to tell them not to bother as I knew there was no way Tiger was far enough along to survive without mom, even with expert medical care.
We found out from her necropsy that she died of a liver infection, but still have no clue how that would've happened. It took me three months before I finally felt ready to dig through pedigrees and find Lemmy a new wifey.
Binky free, Autumn!... perhaps you'll get to meet my little Tabitha on the other side of the bridge. :rainbow: