pregnant yorkie
 

Hey! My 3 year old yorkie is pregnant. (im not a breeder). this wasnt expected but it did happen. She is 56 days pregnant today. we took her to the vet and they said there is 2 puppies. How do I know when she will give birth? Please give any advice you have! it would mean a lot!

Get me caught up on what all you have already done for the last 56 days, to prepare for this whelping....I am sure you have not gotten to this point and not gotten prepared with supplies and knowledge........no time to waste going over every effort you have already made to ensure the safety of your momma and the puppies.

I have a whelping box for her, I also have been feeding her puppy food which the vet told me to. And i have been taking her temperature everyday.

wow you dont have much time to prepare yourself you have to researched everything about welping a yorkie you need welping supplies
-heating pad
-lots of blankets towels(gets very messy)
-homostat clamps(to clamp the cord)
-dull siscors(to cut the cord)
-thermomoter
-dental floss(to tie the cord)
-alcohol wipes
-digital scale
-ribbon or yarn(to tell them apart)
-puppy milk-esebilac
-bottles or string
-bulb syring
-emergency numbers close
-pen and paper(to mark down date time and how much they weight)
-surgical gloves
-kyjelly(if she needs help)
-nutracal(if mama needs it during help whelp)
-pepe pads
thats all i can think of right now
i really hope your whelp goes ok i just went threw it with my girl for the first and only time and boy its much harder than expected 2 sacs apeared at first and if i didnt know what to do i wouldnt of killed mama but thank god i read alot and got prepared for the worst she gave birth to 3 boys and 1 girl and 2 came breach
mama was real worn out poor thing it takes a toll on them so please keep reading as much as you can because alot can go wrong in seconds and you need to know what to do so please keep reading and asking questions please for your girls sake
your mamas in my prayers for a safe whelp good luck:)

Do you know what she bred to? Obviously you know when it happened, since you know she's day 56. There is much to do, read, and buy to get ready.

Do a simple Google Search for Debbie Jensens videos and website on whelping and preparing for same.

Labour signs should be delineated out there. Or conversely you could do a simple search in this forum, for this and other questions you might have.

It does sound like with only a whelping box as the sum total of your preparation other than puppy food, you have a long way to go to prepare yourself.

If this is indeed true, may I highly recommend you let the vet whelp the pups and or get in touch with a whelping coach. There are simply too many situations to try to cover them all in about 6 days for you to absorb all this information.

How to find a whelping coach? Start with your vet and see if she has any referrals for you. Search out your local toy breed club association, obedience club, or even a local Yorkshire Terrier association, or a more general breed club association; and beg for help!

Added to the response on whelping supplies, is get a small scale, pups will need to be weighed daily. Also directions to the vet preprogrammed in your GPS. You need a heating lamp as well. Startt getting in your supplies now, and also for your family. You will need to be with these pups 24/7 for at least the first week. So make up food for you and your family and freeze it.
Keep your car at full gas levels etc from now until at least one month from now.

I do hope for lots of luck in this whelp for your bitch and her puppies.

Start gathering what you wilol need to raise orphaned pups in case that becomes an option. You could also just have to assist a pup with eating if it is not for whatever reason, eating or getting enough to eat. There are recepies for a variety of formulas on here...you need to add ingredients to canned comercial puppy formula, as the canned puppy formula does not really deliver the calories/oz needed. It would be a blessing for those babies if you can learn to tube feed them....much more effective way to control exactly how many calories and nurtition they are getting, plus it cuts down on the possibility of aspiration pneumonia....good luck....you are like cramming an entire semister of physics, into an overnight study session for a major final.

Thanks for the help. 4 puppies were born today. Healthy!!! They are adorable Morkies

Congratulations.....boy your vet missed that count by a long shot.......just make sure all babies have been born and all placentas have been delivered.