I just wanted to update everyone on Katie and pups. We went to the vet yesterday for dew claws and tails. They did great except that they were very whiney for the rest of the day. Katie did not like that one bit. She was so nervous and jumpy and the only way I could get her to stay with them was to stay in the bedroom petting her. She kept looking at me when they whined like I was supposed to do something. LOL she really is spoiled bad. Everything was going fine until about 2 a.m. and then she started moving them again.......in the box out of the box.....wanting out every hour or so...I finally put them back in the bed with me at 5 a.m. because I had to have some sleep! The vet said that she was starting to get mastitis in her upper teats cuz we can't get the pups to nurse on those and her sugar level was a little low. Calcium level was fine. She tested all this to see if maybe some of that could be causing her behavior. We are giving her extra vitamins and nutrical and trying to get her to eat more but she just won't. I have tried and tried and can not get any of them to latch on to those upper teats. I just don't know what to do. The vet milked them while we were there and it took 3 of them to hold her to do it. She is just so stressed, and hates going to the vet anyway, although I love my vet and she is great with her! Finally after hours of trying to get puppies on, I milked them a little and left her alone. I guess we will be going back to the vet today? Sorry this is so long but I just had to vent a little. I haven't had much sleep for the past 4 days! I think it is even harder than us having babies! LOL

Sorry your going through this, if it helps, you're not alone. London has been moving hers also(6 days old) and she's really anxious too. I've brought my air mattress into the living room to sleep. Sleeping in the bedroom was nonexistent with her coming in asking for help. Last night I did catch her with a baby climbing out of the expen 2 times.

I came home from dropping my children off at school yesterday and a puppy was missing, I found her underneath the bed with ripped up foam as bedding. I know it's natural for them, but still scares me.

London gets anxious when a puppy with a tummy ache cries. She'll wake them all up, licking, pacing, carrying off and such. If everyone is quite, nursing or sleeping and beside her, she's happy. I'll sneak away the puppy with gas and try to burp him and then she's fine with the rest.

Good luck to you, hope you can get some sleep real soon!

wow it is really great to know that she is not the only one acting like this. I know my getting anxious is probably making her worse. I thought that she would settle down after the pups did later in the night but she actually got worse. It seems like my bed is the only place she feels comfortable in. I just really don't want to sleep with all of them but I think i may have to in order to get any sleep! The first place she took them was to her toybox this morning and put them in with her toys! lol i dont know why she picked that spot. I guess I was worried that she is hurting them carrying them around like that because they get so upset and crying. The other thing she keeps doing is scratching all around in the bed and trying to cover them up but she just keeps doing it and making them cry....she actually stepped on one of them this morning and i fussed at her. They just want her to lay down with them and then every time they got settled she would get up again. I just don't understand what is up with her.

Awe, bless her heart, she put them in her toy box. When the babies are laying and nursing I sometimes just have to hold her head down and pet her, talking to her til she lays down, then she looks very relaxed. I want her to get use relaxing and letting the puppies sleeping. She's laying right now really well. She only like's it if the puppies are nursing. If they're sleeping, she's flipping them up licking their butts and walking around them. I know they're suppose to pick them up by the neck, but when they're so small, I know they're getting picked up at the stomach and that's just not cool with me. I'm not leaving her for long periods of time and when I pick up kids I crate her and put the puppies on the heating pad.

yep thats what i was worried about is the way she was being so rough and picking their whole body up. i just hope she will settle down and stop the moving around.