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... well, it's over.

Bo went into labour at 12:15 this morning, on the morning of day 60. Her contractions were irregular and pretty light for the first few hours, so I let her be. Around 3:30AM, they started getting more intense and the sac appeared. She pushed for about 30 mins before she managed to get the head out. The pup was alive (I broke the sac and aspirated the nostrils and mouth) but it was stuck there for over half an hour. She kind of stopped pushing so I couldn't help by pulling. When she finally started pushing again, I pulled gently and after a few pushes, out he came... but he was dead. A tiny little male...

My daughter and I decided on the spot: that's it! We're going to the vet. We weren't taking any chances with the other two.

A lot of good that did us. Her contractions never started again. They gave her shot after shot of ocytocyn... nothing. They finally did a C-section at 9AM to take out the other two pups... both dead...

We also told them to take her uterus, while they were in there.

They tell us she'll be fine. For this, we're immensely grateful...

And yet, I am so sad... utterly totally devastated. All this, her suffering, her pain, for nothing... and I'm so tired...

Never again...