Help please questions about new mommie!
 

Gia had her pups last wed. I was off work all last week and there with here (she is a real momma's girl) Yesterday I went back to work and the kids called me and said she wouldn't leave the bedroom (but was using the peepad) and not eating very much. When I got home I tok her temp which was fine, but she just seemed a little "depressed" I don't know how else to explain it babies were all ok ...I gave her some fresh water and food..she didn't touch it..but if I gave it to her from my hand she would eat it.as the nite progressed she got "happier" and seemed ok..I called the vet on calll and wasn't impresssed at all...he was distracted and his kids were yelling and he told me.."she will probably be ok..bring her in in the morning" I can't bring her in this am. I am a nurse and we have one nurse off for a funeral and another has a huge crisis in her life and is off. Not easy to get off anyway and with this there is no way. This am babies looked good and when I feed her I put some water in with it (sometimes she likes it softer) and she was drinking the liquid, but not the food. and she was following me around all morning..do you think she is experiencing seperation anxiety with tme?? My son is there all day long and my daughter is in and out all day?? Any ideas

I am not a breeder but noticed your question has not been answered so I wanted to BUMP this up for yoU!

Ollie didn't seem to eat much right after she had her puppies either. I gave her canned food which she loves, both morning and night, and she go cottage cheese and a half of a boiled egg or some boiled chicken at noon. I didn't take her off of that diet til the pups were starting to wean.

Try cooked chicken, cottage cheese, ice cream, vanilla yogurt, canned goats milk and baby cereal, anything that she will eat. If you do not give her a good supply of calcium she could develop eclampsia.

I would not put her back on dry food for the time being. You can leave it out for her, but supplement with items from the list above.

Thanks so mch!!! SHe loved the cottage cheese and canned chicken..she wanted me to hand feed the chicken though...can you say a little spoiled!!! again thanks so much for your help..she seems a lot more perkier tonight!!

you can also try giving her tums with calcium, you can smush it up or she may well chew it.

Try this recipe. I feed it to my dams while they continue to nurse, they love it. I also feed it to my pups when weaning.

Post Whelping Pudding

16 oz. water
1 pkg. Knox Gelatin
(micro. to disolve)
15 oz. can evap. milk
2 tabls. vanilla yogurt
2 egg yolks
2 tabls. white corn syrup
mix all ingred. in bowl let set in fridge
until thickens. Spoon out as needed.

Great!! Thanks everyone!! I really appreciate all this help being a new Grandmomma!! going to get that stuff tomorrow after work and give it a try!

I've had tremendous luck with it with no adverse problems.

Remember she's like every new mother, requiring a lot of special attention. She's very emotional now and needs affection too.