 Day 58 and concerned
Ok, a little history first as to why things happened as they did in the first place. I will try to make it short. I haven't been on here in a long time due mostly to things going on in my family. Without going into the entire story, I was away from home (my family still here with the dogs) with my eldest daughter and my 2 1/2 year old grandson in the ICU for about 4 months time. In the end we lost him so as you can imagine things at my home were not as they should be for quite a while.
Unfortunately, my little girl Yorkie Honey went in to heat while I was gone and right near the time of my grandson's passing.
Now going back just a bit, I had decided some time back that Honey was too small in my opinion and that if she were bred it would be a male smaller than my Teddy. So knowing that my plan was not to let them mate during her heat this past time which was her second.
Now as I said, I had been living in the ICU with my daughter and grandson and by the time I knew that they had gotten together it was too late.
Honey is/was just under 5 lbs or right at and Teddy is right at 5lbs to maybe just over.
Now, the concern is this, Honey's belly is so huge and I am so worried that she is going to have big troubles. Of course there was not alot of planning as far as the vet goes because I had decided we were not going to do this yet. This is not my first litter, just first with Honey. I took her to the vet on her
55th day for an xray and the vet said he felt that she didn't have more than a couple and that they were VERY large. He said that on palpation but then with the x-ray found 4 heads for sure and a possible 1 or 2 more spines that we couldn't see heads for. So his thoughts upon palpation seem to be way off. As I said, I had not planned on doing this now and now find myself stuck with the small, old back woods vet that is available. The office in my little town is clean and I like the doc but they don't have the xray here so I had to go there and it is also where I will have to take her if she needs an emergency c section. That office is filthy, smelly, the doctor is older than dirt and has very old views. I had to argue with him to even give me the xray. I do not like him or his place and am so worried about her having a surgery there. If she goes in the day time she can go here to my doc but of course I would still hope she can do this on her own without having to have anastesia.
Finding another vet is really not an option due to where I live. The one I have to take her to already is 1/2 hour away.
I am praying that she will do this without any troubles but I know it may not be that way. I am completely prepared now as far haivng everything I need for her and the puppies all together and set up. I am with her now every minute of the day and night. We will see how she does and then if we have to we will go to the vet.
So the reason I am posting is that I am hoping to have you all here to go through the last few days and whelp with us. Not only to hold our hands but for advice as needed. I have had females near this size before do just fine but never had one get a belly this big and that is what concerns me.
She is my love and I want to make sure I do everything right for her now that we are where we are. I know that chances are that here you will all want to slam me for letting this happen but I am asking that under the circumstances of the loss in our family and the time it took me away that you be understanding and just help us get through this.
I will try to upload a pic of her belly so you can see how big it is.
The first on was taken on the 31st and the second one was taken on June
2nd. I took her temp. this last night and it was 100.00. This morning was 99.5. |