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Originally Posted by YorkieRealtor  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. |
How incredibly kind of you to find someone to help me!! Will you please PM me their contact info? I am going to try these recipes. Livi's milk pretty much stopped the evening that my husband took Cadbury to the vet. That day/evening, he was too weak to even hold his up...and definitely did not suckle! Livi is a VERY smart and sensitive girl...it was so hard on her to see her puppies sick that day. Then, we were told that they could not surse until that medicine was out of Livi's system so that didn't help matters.
Does anyone know why the vet is opposed to Livi getting the Oxy shot...she wanted to her to have the Oxy nasal, but really does not want to give the shot...but said she would if she just had to.
One more question....should the puppies gain weight everytime that I feed them? Their little tummies feel and look round, but when I weigh them, it stays at the exact same weight. Is this normal? Will it start to increase the more that I am feeding them?