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Originally Posted by Lilah Charm  Wow, this was a painful thread to read. I am glad Yt isn't always like this. I really hope for the best for Allie and the pups and everyone involved. It is hard to fall short, harder to share it and awful to have someone choose to be so hurtful anyway when you are already shaming yourself. I keep livestock (goats an sheep etc) and I would strongly encourage the behaviors outlined by rose hill especially nipple stimulation which naturally stimulates oxytocin production and to devote as much time as you can to their supervised socialization (mom and pups that is). With my goats, I will literally lock mama babies and me in a small stall and sit for hours working on their nursing so that they can bond and function together because nothing substitutes a mama doing her job. I will hold mama in place and stimulate milk flow and get the kids up to nurse and help those babies figure out their job which they cannot do without energy-for goats it is a nutrient drench with molasses for your pups it would seem that a properly administered yt puppy milk mix would be the thing. I hope you can get them bonding before it is too late. Best of luck. |
This is soooooooooo true Michelle....you must keep momma with those babies, and sit and watch them....if she is distancing herself from her babies, she will not bond....you have to work and work and work to get the babies nestled up next to her, and MAKING her lay there and allow this to happen. Be squeezing those nipples, starting at the very back ones since those are the ones that supply the most...that is where it all starts to come down first......you have to milk her to get the milk to come down....and the babies that CAN suckle, will latch on to productive nipples....just dont assume they are getting all the food they are needing from her...continue to tube feed them....and weigh them daily, twice a day....BEFORE you feed them.