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08-18-2009, 11:25 PM | #1 |
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| It's puppy time!! Help! Roxie and I are both freaking out! I'm so nervous right now, I don't even know what to do with myself. I've been posting in the august thread but I figured a new thread would get more attention.. I took Roxie's temp a couple of hours ago and it was 98.65. Since then she's been shivering, peeing a lot, and being extremely restless. A few minutes ago (15 or so) I noticed that she started having contractions. Now they're closer apart and she refuses to stay put. She's wandering around my room arching her back and looking up with her mouth open, like she's about to howl?? And her stomach is visibly tighening. I AM SCARED TO DEATH!! How long should it be until she delivers?? Or how long until I should get worried?
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08-18-2009, 11:27 PM | #2 |
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| I'm not letting her go under my bed or anything but she seems to be nervous when I put her in the whelping box so I'm just sitting on the floor and she's pacing around while she's contracting.. it looks so painful. She halts in her tracks and arches her body and nearly falls over..
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08-18-2009, 11:34 PM | #3 |
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| What an inconvenient time for her to go into labor, when all the breeders are sleeping.. ahh! Now she is laying on a warm blanket and trying to rest. Never mind, she just got up and had a big contraction.. I can't tell if she's contracting or pushing! But I don't see anything at her vulva, no bubble or anything. What if the pup is stuck deep inside? :O
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08-18-2009, 11:37 PM | #4 |
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| Oh my goodness!....I know nothing about this but I'm sure someone will come in to help you soon. I'll be here watching if you like to talk.ok.
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08-18-2009, 11:55 PM | #5 |
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| Thank you! Sorry it took a while to respond. I was on the phone with a breeder friend who lives nearby and she's on alert.. and sleeping between my calls/texts, I'm sure. Roxie is laying in her dog bed now. Every 5 minutes or so she has a set of contractions, it looks like. She'll get up and wander around and do the back-arching thing and freeze in her tracks, about 5 to 10 times and then go back into her dog bed and rest.
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08-19-2009, 12:11 AM | #6 |
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| Oh I'm glad you got in touch with a breeder! ..... did she say all this is normal?
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08-19-2009, 12:13 AM | #7 |
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| She said it sounds normal to her and all I can do is wait for her to start getting really hard contractions. I am going to be exhausted by morning! I'm already insanely tired. She keeps wandering from blanket to doggy bed to whelping box, and now she is resting on my hubby's old shirt. Haha.
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08-19-2009, 12:39 AM | #8 |
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| Sorry, I got real hungry and I went and made me some scramble eggs. Poor thing she sounds like she's in pain. Do you know how many puppies she has in her belly?
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08-19-2009, 12:41 AM | #9 |
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| I'm overcome with panic for some reason. I'm just so afraid she won't be able to whelp this puppy. Still having contrax every 6 or so minutes (sometimes 4, sometimes 8) and I see nothing happening at her vulva. I called the 24-hour vet just to give them a heads up and they told me a c-sec is between 1000-1400 dollars! I don't mind doing that in payments but there is no way I could pay all of that in one big sum at this instant, IF Roxie needed to be taken in. Please everyone just pray for the best!
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08-19-2009, 12:43 AM | #10 |
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| Yes, she only has one puppy, that's why I'm so concerned.. maybe it isn't fitting through her pelvis. I could really use some advice right about now! The emergency vet told me to give it another two hours or so. Or one hour if she starts pushing hard. But the only problem is, I can't tell if her contractions are really her pushing, in disguise. Her whole body tenses up. But then afterwards she goes and lays down and rests, so I'm pretty sure they're just ctx's.
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08-19-2009, 12:49 AM | #11 |
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| You got to calm down you don't want her to pick up on your panic...... there has to be a way to work things out with the vet, but don't worry about that right now, right now its all about Roxie. Are you ready with everything you need to cut the cords and clean the puppies?
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08-19-2009, 12:49 AM | #12 |
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| She yelped pretty loud with this last set
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08-19-2009, 12:50 AM | #13 |
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| Aww, I'm sorry I can't be of any help. I've never had puppies before, well not me, but you know. If it were me though, I'd take a deep breath and try to relax, I know it's gotta be hard. I do hope Roxie has a safe whelp. I'll stick around for a little bit and watch for updates. Hang in there. |
08-19-2009, 12:51 AM | #14 |
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| Yes, I have surg scissors, dental floss, iodine, an aspirator bulb (a snot ball as my husband calls it), plenty of towels i didn't even get a chance to cut her long hair. I posted about doing that and then ironically she went into labor right after I posted. I did manage to trim the hair around her bum about half an hour ago though but I don't want to bother her with scissors anymore
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08-19-2009, 12:53 AM | #15 |
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| Thank you for the kind words, I guess Roxie isn't in any immediate trouble if she is sleeping in between sets of contractions, right? She doesn't seem to be in terrible distress (other than the contraction pain when it happens)
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