I'm glad you took them all to the vet. I have found someone in your area who can show you how to tube feed, but it sounds like you are doing fine with the dropper. Just send me a message if you change your mind.
It could be that if the puppies will nurse a little that her milk will start to come in. Even weak puppies will normally nurse strongly for a short time if you try it a few minutes after they get a little sugar of some sort. Do you have nutridrops or even just a bottle of 50% dextrose? Give the puppies a dose of one of these things and then see if they will nurse a little.
You may already have this recipe, I am sending it just in case. It is Terri Shumsky's pudding recipe. It will help the milk come in and it is good for your mother if she is not eating/feeling well.
Mix
large 4 cup size vanilla pudding,
1/2 cup sugar,
4 cups of milk, and
4 egg yolks.
Cook on low heat to pudding consistency and offer to new mother at body temperature. She can eat as much as she wants. Has never caused diarrhea and brings in abundance of milk!!!
OR from scratch...
mix the following in a saucepan and cook to pudding consistency.
2/3 cup sugar
6 tablespoons cornstarch
1/2 teas salt
4 cups milk (or one can evap milk plus equal parts water to make quart)
4 egg yolks
3 teasp vanilla.
feed with syringe, on spoon, or let eat from bowl.
full of protein and nourishment....have never had it cause diarrhea.
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Originally Posted by TammyJM  You guys have all been a TON of help...in many ways!! I gave Cinnamon the dropper and she did fine...I think I will do this with Cadbury in a few minutes. The puppies' current weights are:
Cinnamon: 6.7 (birth weight was 3.4)
Cupcake: 7.1 (birth weight was 4.1)
Cadbury: 8.3 (birth weight was 4.4)
Part of their weight could be from the sub-q fluids from this morning, though....not sure. At one week, shouldn't they be double their birth weight?  They were such chubby babies before all of this. |