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virtualgirl · 03-03-2013, 12:02 PM

Hi everyone!

My husband and I went to the vet yesterday because our Bella who is 2 years was showing pregnancy symptoms (gaining weight, swollen nipples, morning sickness). This was an UNPLANNED pregnancy. Previously we were highly considering breeding her with our male Yorkie, however, Bella isn't the most healthy dog and so we have been separating them until we came to our final decision (we didn't want to breed her anyways until she was at least two years old). However, while my mother and father were watching the two dogs while my husband and I were out of town, our male ended up breeding with her then.

We went into the vet yesterday with a lot of questions and we did get quite a few answers. However, my biggest worry is that Bella doesn't make it through the pregnancy. Champ, our male dog, is about 5.5-6lbs and Bella is 4.5lbs (now at 7lbs). Bella also has had a few hypoglycemic instances, but not so severe where she would go into seizure mode (I was usually able to catch it right away and prevent it from getting worse). Bella is an extremely picky eater, so I get worried that she doesn't eat enough. However, since being pregnant this past week she has been eating quite a bit (thank goodness!!).

The vet told us to put her on Puppy Food right away especially since she has had tenancies of hypoglycemia. We put her on the Innova puppy food (I read on here that that was one of the best puppy foods) and she LOVES it. However, I don't like to JUST feed my dogs dry food. So my question was what would the best wet dog food be for pregnant yorkies?

Also, I read about whelping pudding and that is something that my husband and I are extremely considering. However, the vet didn't know what whelping pudding was when I asked

. She did say though that the more puppies Bella has the more chance that she wont need to get the c-section because of the puppies being smaller. Whereas if she only had 1-2 puppies they would be larger because all of the calcium nutrients would be going to those two puppies. Is this true?

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I want this to be as less stressful for Bella and as easy as possible for Bella. I also want her to make it through it and anything I can do to make that happen, I will. Money isn't a worry we just want our baby bella to be healthy and ready.

THANK YOU!!

03-03-2013, 12:02 PM	#1
virtualgirl Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: USA Posts: 13	Beautiful Bella due end of March Hi everyone! My husband and I went to the vet yesterday because our Bella who is 2 years was showing pregnancy symptoms (gaining weight, swollen nipples, morning sickness). This was an UNPLANNED pregnancy. Previously we were highly considering breeding her with our male Yorkie, however, Bella isn't the most healthy dog and so we have been separating them until we came to our final decision (we didn't want to breed her anyways until she was at least two years old). However, while my mother and father were watching the two dogs while my husband and I were out of town, our male ended up breeding with her then. We went into the vet yesterday with a lot of questions and we did get quite a few answers. However, my biggest worry is that Bella doesn't make it through the pregnancy. Champ, our male dog, is about 5.5-6lbs and Bella is 4.5lbs (now at 7lbs). Bella also has had a few hypoglycemic instances, but not so severe where she would go into seizure mode (I was usually able to catch it right away and prevent it from getting worse). Bella is an extremely picky eater, so I get worried that she doesn't eat enough. However, since being pregnant this past week she has been eating quite a bit (thank goodness!!). The vet told us to put her on Puppy Food right away especially since she has had tenancies of hypoglycemia. We put her on the Innova puppy food (I read on here that that was one of the best puppy foods) and she LOVES it. However, I don't like to JUST feed my dogs dry food. So my question was what would the best wet dog food be for pregnant yorkies? Also, I read about whelping pudding and that is something that my husband and I are extremely considering. However, the vet didn't know what whelping pudding was when I asked . She did say though that the more puppies Bella has the more chance that she wont need to get the c-section because of the puppies being smaller. Whereas if she only had 1-2 puppies they would be larger because all of the calcium nutrients would be going to those two puppies. Is this true? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I want this to be as less stressful for Bella and as easy as possible for Bella. I also want her to make it through it and anything I can do to make that happen, I will. Money isn't a worry we just want our baby bella to be healthy and ready. THANK YOU!!