[Sunnie]

I cannot stress enough how important it is to keep them warm. I mean REALLY warm. a cold puppy cannot digest and will die quickly. You should at the very least have a heating pad turned on low UNDER the whelping box... once they are warmed up, try to get them to latch onto mom. If mom won't stay with them, you may need to lay right beside her to make sure she nurses them. If you cannot get them to latch onto momma, put a drop of karo syrup on their tongues then latch them on. Believe me, one of the biggest reasons for loss of a litter to an inexperienced breeder is failure to keep them warm enough. It should be 85 degrees where the babies are for the first week or two, then you can lower it to about 80 for another week, then 75.