[pull4994]

Hi, my 4 year old yorkshire terrier Elle had a litter of 6 on the 12th June (although I had her scanned at the vets I was told to expect 3, maybe 4), all went well with the labour and Elle was fine afterwards, although she had a runt who weighted less than 2oz at birth which was a third smaller than the others, he is doing well now, although Elle was anxious about him for the first 2 weeks and kept carrying him (and only him) in her mouth, she has stopped that now. My main worry is now Elle herself, one week after giving birth she started shaking all over and could not stand or breath very well, this happened after midnight it was lucky that my husband and I were still up, we rushed her to the vets, where she had to stay for 12 hours and it found that she was calcuim deficient (I had given her supplements but it was not enough), I was told to give Zolcal-D to her for one week which we did, when we stopped she started to shake again, so I phoned the vets and they told me to carry on giving the medicine which we have, but since then you has had another minor shaking bout, just her head this time, I am really worried and do not know what is causing this? Elle is still bleeding below, but not heavy is this normal? She does not spend any time with the puppies only to feed them (she leaves them alone at night), I am trying to wean them with puppy milk formula but at the moment they are not lapping (they will be 4 weeks old this Saturday, 10th July). Elle is still loving towards me and wants to go out for walks but we do not go out too far. I am feeding Elle chicken dailing with other meals consisting of puppy dry and puppy normal food, with milk supplement for herself, fromage frais and beef / lamb when I cook them. I would welcome any advice in helping make Elle herself again!!