[Willow]

I hope you don't mind my adding to your thread.

Scooter is one day old. We just discovered the cleft pallet today. I have been feeding him with an eye dropper. If I do one drop at a time and put it in his cheek he swallows it without it coming out his nose. It took all day for me to figure out how to get it to go in his tummy and not out his nose. Poor little guy. Earlier I thought he was breathing his last. I took a washcloth and started rubbing him all over like when they were first born and I was stimulating them. he livened up some and i got him on the heating pad and warmed him up and then he started wiggling around and getting more active so I kept feeding him every couple hours drop by drop. Let me tell ya, that is slow going! But just now when I was feeding him he was licking at the dropper, licking his paws, licking my fingers...my little Scooter is fighting! I have many friends and family praying for him and we are all pulling for him to make it.

One question...how do we keep them warm while feeding them?