My girl gets 5 meals a day from the day she whelps until she weans the puppies, breakfast she gets a scrambled egg with calcium tablet, for lunch she gets one spoon full of whelping pudding mix with her kibble, midday snack she gets kibble with cottage cheese, dinner she gets her kibble mix with some soft food, and before bed kibble mix with whelping pudding with calcium tablet, I breed silky terriers so my girl is a bit bigger she is 11 pounds pre pregnant weight, with he first litter she only lost 2 pounds.