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Originally Posted by Cares4Dogs  My girl was looking engorged one night and I put warm wet wash cloths on her and just gave a little pressure to help get some of the milk out. This was like at 3 a.m. when I got up to check on her and her babies. I did this for about 30 minutes and she was totally comfortable through the process and a few hours later her belly looked back to normal.
Is your girl still looking engorged? |
Not too bad. Individual nipple areas swollen, but not the entire area between, not dimpled. The only way we can get her to nurse them for even a couple minutes is to put a bowl of the after birth "pudding" as she loves that (as I said before) into the x pen, the pups come running and they nurse while she's eating. We tried the hot pack. I've added the rice cereal to their mush (+ a drop of puppy nutrical in morn, some karo at night)...rice cereal seems to "stick to their ribs" --- Gracie's just done nursing. I think in order to keep her spending time with them I need to let her dry up, put the shirt on, but I think it's them that needs to accept if they wanna see mama, then don't try to nurse so she'll stay in the pen with them. Like I said, they seem to be thriving, so I'm trying to let nature take its course (of course, mother nature has left the feeding of the pups to me!!! lol)
Thanks to everyone for responding, it has really helped.
Kendra