[Yorkiemom1]

I am reading this, rather bleary eyed, after spending all night with one of my little ladies that was whelping. After an hour of active pushing, I helped deliver this first baby.....it was a situation where there was no turning back....the baby was presenting, was having a very tight squeeze getting through the pelvic ring due to position of pups legs and head (something you can not ever know ahead of time)....suffice it to say, after a VERY difficult pulling, turning, rotating, twisting, and lots and lots of lubricant, 40 minutes later I managed to pull this baby out. This is a dam who routinely free whelps....she weighs 6 lbs. The sire weighs 5 lbs and routinely throws babies that usually are in the 2.5 - 3oz range at birth, maturing to 4.5 - 5.5 lbs. These dogs come from very well known, well monitored lines behind them, that I personally have a working knowledge of, 17 generations back....my mentor knows these dogs as far as 30 generations back....they are consistant and deliberate in what they throw. I have been doing this for many years, and thank God, I had the knowledge to get this done and save this baby's life. Then 3 hours later, we still had another puppy to deliver....and momma was no longer even actively pushing. I manually palpated her vaginal vault/birth canal, and rather than feeling a little round head or butt or even a leg, I hit a "wall".....that second baby was now sideways and would not be delivered....I had my vet on call, I called her, and we now had an emergent situation....GREEN DISCHARGE being expelled from momma....placenta is separating from baby.....EMERGENCY!!! I got to the vet office within 10 minutes, Buttons was in surgery within 7 minutes, and praise the Lord, we delivered a healthy, loudly protesting little boy! This entire whelping event, from start to finish, with careful monitoring of momma, until our trip to the vet, was from 10am on Tuesday morning, until 10:30am Wednesday morning, at the tune of final cost of over $2000.00........including my breeders discount.
I will continue to pray for this OP's litter of mixed breed babies from an undersized Yorkie female from unknown pedigree, and a much larger mixed breed male, also of unknown pedigree....born to a novice that has never attended a whelping, perhaps never even seen a puppy born.....this is all in God's hands because He is the only one overseeing this with the knowledge and where with all to pull it off successfully, without loss of anyone's life.