Here was the picture I took to show Walter. It was all the way down last night, it moved freely, it was just as if she was done trying!
The first thing I did was get a helper. She had to be restrained, but never got too upset. I took a small syringe of professional corn snake lubricant, and squirted it up the cloaca (no needle, of course). In retrospect, I should have massaged it in there, I felt like it all came out right before the first egg.
The first one took some pressure, I'd never squeezed a snake so hard!
Second one came out easy as spittin' out a watermelon seed. Two dead, but not yet stinky, appear to have been fertile eggs. Funny thing, I usually calcium dust my breeding females, and didn't with her. Mostly because I had given up on her being gravid, until she was so visibly so that it was time to cut back on food. I last paired her up with a male on August 9th.
It is my experience that the longer you wait, the more likely you lose the female. I avoid aspirating if I can, and was able to this time. I should have done this last night, when the eggs would have been more pliable and come out easier, I'm kicking myself for waiting. When the final egg(s) don't move all day after a night clutch, something is wrong. It will probably ruin this snake as an investment, but she's not breeding in 2015. Barring catastrophe, one of these males will be good and up to size by spring 2016 anyway, and it will save me from having to get one.