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Old 01-14-2007, 08:34 PM   #8
LauraR
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Eating the placenta is the way nature helps the uterus contract back down and prevents hemmorhage.
However, when something dies it starts decomposing. With a human mother, carrying a dead fetus can cause coagulopathies. (prevents clotting of the blood). That can be a REAL danger for hemorrhage.

At the very least watch her bleeding VERY carefully. Somehow, someway you will have to find a vet if the bleeding is very much. The other pups nursing will also help the uterus to contract and help with bleeding, so them nursing is real good. Watch the girth of her abdomen. If it's filling with blood inside, you have to know it and get her help.

Besides hemmorhage, I would another big problem would be infection. Watch her temperature. Infection, untreated can lose your baby to you.

The last thing I can think of, yet not least important, is Are there any other fetuses or placentas left? I would think the only sure way to know that is for a vet to examine and possibly ultrasound or xray her. SOMEthing made her hold those last two puppies. Who is to say that is all there is.

With the DIRE results of the three aforementioned things, I would be spastic to get my baby to a vet.
At the very least first thing in the morning, I would definitely have her checked by a vet.

Three dangers I can see:

1- Hemmorhage
2- Infection
3- Retained products of conception

All of those are life threatening. Please have her checked and treated AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Let us know how she is doing and good luck.

By the way.. I am NO breeder. I just know about having human babies!
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