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Originally Posted by btalley1121  no puppies as of yet. Her temp went up to 99 last night. This morning its back at 98. She is now in her whelping box just laying around being sluggish. She also threw up this morning. Keeping a close eye on her! |
This is the time I start....this sounds so silly as I am about to type it out.....laying next to her in the "whelping box", just talking softly to her and rubbing her tummy and singing softly to her.....keeping everything on a quiet, subdued, calm, relaxed pre labor special time.....we just bond and visit and hum/sing, carressing and gentle tummy rubs, and wait together.....I am always in attendance when the babies are born....I will pull the sack off and cut and tie the cord, suck the mucus out of nose and mouth, give .01cc Dr.Millers Pet Nutra Drops-the newborn actually sucks it right up from the syringe-(I let momma eat the first couple placentas, but then I remove the rest) and then I let momma clean the baby off....it is that cleaning the mucus away that bonds the momma to baby....and the babies are stimulated to nurse vigorously after the little glucose baby gets from the nutra drops.....