Thanks for all the help everyone. We did end up going to the vet just to make sure she was not having problems since she was gagging so much and not eating. I do use the Dr. Brown bottles with preemie nipples but just upgraded to regular nipples and she is doing much better. Her weight is not down but she was just not getting enough to eat and then would just cry and fight eating. She is fed a bottle twice a day and so are the others and that seems to be the magic number to keep them all content but when they don't do their feeding then all heck breaks loose. I will be going and getting the goats milk tonight to have on hand just in case they stop taking the formula but I just don't want to upset their system by introducing anything unless I have to. And with them still gaining weight I know they are absorbing the food that they are getting. Just a few more weeks and then I can rest a little easier.
The pups will nurse about every 30-45 minutes and never get filled up since mom can't make that much but when I do the extra feedings then they get back on to feeding about every 2 hours till she starts running low and on average she can go about 12 hours and then we have pups crying again and back to nursing more often. For now I will just keep going like what I have been and adjust their feedings if we need to. |