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Originally Posted by karak333  the puppy looks very premature. it doesn't really even have any fur and its face does not look very developed... I mean, its not deformed or anything, it just looks underdeveloped. the puppy is at the vet. they are tube feeding him because he is too small to eat from a bottle... when I go to pick her up, they are going to show me how to tube feed. its worse because she is not producing any milk at all... they haven't called me with any updates so I am getting really worried... please, please just pray that she doesn't need a c-section and that everything goes okay... |
I wouldn't think the vet would say to allow her to nurse even if she had milk due to the eclampsia and preemies aren't strong enough to nurse anyway. They will be very frail. They will need a very warm environment to have much of a chance as they won't be able to hold their body temp at all.
It's probably best to tube feed, though I don't have any experience with doing it. But, any other way and they have a greater chance of aspirating and their little bodies just couldn't take it.
I'm guessing you don't have an incubator, but you can rig up something that will help keep the pups warm. A small plastic bin with a lid on it and a heating pad inside should work to keep them from getting chilled. Remember that you cannot feed a chilled pup and, with them being preemies, their bodies couldn't take being chilled even once. Also, what's warm to us won't be warm enough for these pups.
Prayers for Cinnamon and her babies.