|
Welcome to the YorkieTalk.com Forums Community - the community for Yorkshire Terriers. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. You will be able to chat with over 35,000 YorkieTalk members, read over 2,000,000 posted discussions, and view more than 15,000 Yorkie photos in the YorkieTalk Photo Gallery after you register. We would love to have you as a member! Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please click here to contact us. |
|
| LinkBack | Thread Tools |
08-31-2009, 06:49 AM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2008 Location: South Mississippi
Posts: 225
| Diva has eclampsia. New pictures included of babies. This past week has been crazy. To begin with, I spent the week dealing with my grouchy 13 year old as she recovered from having her tonsils out. NOt a good week for me or her, needless to say. Then Thursday night, my 16 year old son came down with a stomach virus. Diva was being a little clingy but nothing unusual for her, or at least I thought it wasn't. We went to bed around 10:30 that night. At midnight, my 13 year old got up to go the bathroom and found Diva laying on the floor panting and stiff legged. She ran and woke me up and as soon as I saw her, I knew it was eclampsia. We called our vet to meet us, grabbed her and flew to the vets office. He immediately started IV calcium and fluids and within 10 minutes she was wagging her tail and acting like nothing had happened. He recommended upping her calcuim supplements and gradual weaning of the puppies to avoid mastitis. I went home and slept on the couch with her. I cannot tell you how terrifying that episode was. So now, I am allowing Diva to nurse very little and am supplementing with bottles. Which by the way is a nightmare.Those little 2 week old babies fight like pitbulls to avoid that bottle. They want their momma!! LOL Anyway Diva wears her onsie and can still care for her babies, but I plan to be totally on the bottle with them by Wednesday. Her milk production is much less now. We are still fighting with her to get her to eat dog food. She refuses to eat anything that I don't cook for her. Here are some pictures of my little spoiled babies. |
Welcome Guest! | |
08-31-2009, 07:06 AM | #2 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Alabama
Posts: 17,674
| Wow! What a week!!! I hope your skin kids are feeling better soon and Diva starts eating. Too much worry! The pups are precious! Love the belly-up picture. My Chattie had hypocalcemia two weeks prior to whelping and was started on Calsorb (this was 2 years ago). She was on Calsorb twice daily until she finally weaned the pups around 8 1/2 weeks. She has always been a good eater, so I had that positive on my side. Good luck with the bottle feeding and getting Diva to eat. |
08-31-2009, 07:19 AM | #3 |
Luving my babies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Over the rainbow
Posts: 3,291
| I am so sorry to hear you had such a rough week! Sounds like you have a great vet and she is doing better! I will keep her and pups in my prayers!!! I love the belly picture!!! Too cute!!!
__________________ Renee, Tayah, Dash, Bella & Paige |
08-31-2009, 07:27 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Morristown, TN
Posts: 3,736
| Wow! You have had a rough week! I hope everything gets better for your skin kids and fur kids.
__________________ Hello and hugs from Kristie & the furbabies! A world without yorkies is not a very bright one |
08-31-2009, 11:21 AM | #5 |
My Four Sweet Babies Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: South Jersey near Philadelphia
Posts: 5,452
| I am sorry about Diva, but her puppies are adorable!! I guess I would just cook for her (as if you have nothing better to do!!) for the time being; anything to get her to eat, right? Feeding the babies is not going to be fun. I find the bottles to be the worst of the worst. An eye dropper worked better for me or a syringe without the needle. Good luck. They sure do look fat and healthy though!
__________________ I LOVE MY BABIES |
09-01-2009, 03:20 PM | #6 |
Living My Yorkie Dream Donating Member | Oh gosh, I saw your other picture thread (in the nursery?) but had no idea that momma had gotten eclampsia. I am happy to hear that she bounced right back from it & wish you well in bottle feeding the little ones. I also know exactly how you feel about getting these finicky mommies to eat; Halle has been a bit on the picky side herself. Getting better though, slow but sure.
__________________ |
09-01-2009, 03:45 PM | #7 |
My Tiny Treasures Donating Member | wow gosh what a week for you! i sure hope things are on the up!!!! I hope everyone is feeling better soon! |
09-01-2009, 03:58 PM | #8 |
YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Tallahassee, FL, USA
Posts: 253
| They are adorable!!! Sounds like you've got your work cut out for you. Hope the kids and Diva feel better soon. |
09-01-2009, 04:27 PM | #9 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Woodland, Ca, Usa
Posts: 764
| Congratulations! I hope all your kids are doing better!
__________________ ~Angela |
09-03-2009, 04:33 AM | #10 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto
Posts: 2,042
| Wow look like you have been really busy! I am glad to hear that the little family is doing well. I always have the hardest time to feed puppies with a bottle. I use a syringe or dropper instead. |
09-03-2009, 06:36 AM | #11 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: USA
Posts: 1,857
| oh Gosh I just saw this thread- I am so sorry you have had such an ordeal this past week. I am so glad you got Diva help so quickly and that she is doing fine. I know you must have been so scared. Thank goodness all is well now. Hope everyone has a speedy recovery at your house. |
Bookmarks |
|
|
| |
|
|
SHOP NOW: Amazon :: eBay :: Buy.com :: Newegg :: PetStore :: Petco :: PetSmart