[Yorkiemom1]

As I was concerned, the pups were too big to be delivered without a c-section. Thank God YOU had the where with all to financially handle the financial burden of the specialist and all the extra testing and hormone level checks. Please take into consideration, these posts are read by thousands of people. Everyday, people are going thru the very same experience you had....small female, large mixed breed male, questionable pedigree behind the mixed breed, etc, etc......Probably easily 80% of those same people will NOT have all the expensive testing, and specialist consulting on the pregnancy. They will just stumble into such a whelping with catastrophic and devastating consequences.....this is why the experienced breeders posted as they did on your thread. And it did turn out, exactly as we were sure it would. YOUR pup was delivered by c-section....if some of us had not spoken as we did, others may come along and think they can also go thru this with wonderful results....the difference is they may not follow up with continous lab work and ultra sounds and hormore levels and f/u with a reproductive specialist, which fortunately resulted exactly as predicted, a c-sectiuon procedure for the vet, in addition to the expensive labs and ultrasounds, etc. Not everyone will be doing this, like you did.....it is financially prohibitive to them, especially "first timers" that may not understand the danger this female was in right from the beginning. Good for you.....you followed what experience has taught the rest of us and your little lady survived along with her litter. I DO understand now why you did not want to terminate the pregnancy with a spay..........you intend to breed this female, as planned all along.