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Originally Posted by gemy  Don't allow the Mom to chew the umblicial. You cut it. also if she won't lick stimulate the puppy, you must do so.
Labour goes on for 1.5 hrs and no puppy - off to the emergency vet you go.
Count all the placentas! Let her eat at least one.
Get your whelping pudding recipe made up
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Mom can eviscerate the pups if she chews the cords too short or pulls too hard...also can cause hernia....just deliver the baby, YOU tear the sac off the baby, suction nose and mouth out, rubbing the baby to get it cryting....take some dental floss and tie the cord off next to the pups body, then cut the cord about 1" long. DIP THE END OF THAT CORD IN MECUROCROME.....(I learned that at the last seminar I went to....not Betadine....cant remember why right now!) I only let my mom eat 2 placentas....they can get diarrhea eating more than that, and they get all the bonding hormones necessary with 2 placentas. After you get the sac off, the cord cut and dipped, and the babys nose and mouth sucked out, let momma clean the baby off...each baby is enveloped in fluids that also stimulate momma to bond with that baby, allowing her to recognize that as her baby....let HER clean the baby off.... You have to keep babies in a warm environment....her whelping box should be in an area with NO drafts, where the ambient temp is at least 88* -90*.....and you can put a heating pad UNDER the box the babies are in....you do not want them to nuzzle or worm their way to directly on top of the heating pad......so put it UNDER the box. Also, this is momma/baby time....you do not want to encourage socializing and visiting during this time....I isolate my new mommas....no visiting with other pets in the family....if stressed out, mommas will eat their young....we want her to be calm and happy and devoting all her time to her new babies....