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"I wasn't this prepared for having my own kids," senior curator Brandie Smith told The Washington Post.
Smith and her team have an incubator set up and have developed a panda baby formula the consistency of buttermilk -- stirred, not blended.
Mei was artificially inseminated in January and recently built herself a nest of bamboo and mulberry branches. If Mei is indeed pregnant, the cub could be born within a few weeks, the Post said Saturday.