Since it is now morning, I am a little late posting this but to answer your question. i do go to bed but on the foot of it . I am a very light sleeper. Mama is in a whelping box in an x-pen right at the foot of my bed and at the slightest sound I am up and checking her. This usually goes on for about three days before her due date, then about a week after whelping so I can get up to make sure puppies are okay and mama has not laid on them or entangled them in her hair. That happened to me on the litter I have now. I had shaved mama's belly hair but she got out of the whelping box with one tangled in her bread and was carrying it around all tangled up in the x-pen. Fortunately, I found it almost immediately. Then i cut mama's beard also!!!!!! Any babies yet? |