Well I have been a little busy this week bc the puppies have arrived. They actually got here last Sunday via emergency c-section at the animal hospital. We had gone out the night before with some neighbors to see Larry the cable guy and we were not home and in bed until midnight. Around 4am (and also 1am per my dad who was visiting and cleaned up the first mess) my youngest was knocking on our door telling me he had just thrown up. He had made a nice trail from his bed to the bathroom (poor little guy : ( then I had left me door open hoping to get some more sleep then about two hours later I hear him again and go to his room. Then I hear my older son Christopher racing out of his room screaming LUCKY'S having her puppies !!! So nick is getting sick, my dad was trying to help him and I was in the bathroom with poor lucky as she was in active labor. I was trying to re-read all the papers the vet had given us (even though I had been thru this before) i just wanted to make sure I was doing everything correct. The first puppy was half way out and she struggled for a good hour trying to get the puppy out. I finally called the VET bc at this point i wanted to make sure this was normal. Of course it was not and they told me to get her there ASAP. So Christopher and I loaded her and her puppy box in the car (while Grandpa stayed with nick) and got here there a little bit after 7am Sunday morning. Right awat they took her back and unfortunantely the FIRST BIG little girl did not make it : ( This was very difficult for christopher........they then had given her some medicine just like with humans that would keep her contractions coming bc at this point she was already very tired - she was able to get the second puppy (another girl) out naturally(the nice vet tech brought it in for us to see which was exactly what christopher needed to help him with the whole situation..........then we kept waiting and they gave more medicine but at this point she could handle no more it had been a couple of hours and they decided that they would need to do a c-section to get the other puppies out. After the c-section - they were able to get the two other girls and the LAST BIG BOY out (they said she never would have been able to get him out either. And if anyone is wondering about the puppies being big we figured since the dad was smaller than the mom that we would not have to worry but that was not the case) SO after Lucky's temp got to normal and she was awake they put her puppies with her. Then we found out she was not producing milk for some reason so Christopher and I were given bottle feeding lessons for puppies : ) which has to be done every TWO hours or until she started to produce milk. We eventually got realesed that same day about 3pm and came home for a LONG night of puppy feeding (I felt like I had FOUR newborns at this point : ) SO with all that being sad everyone is doing good - MOMMA is producing milk finally (with nature and some help of FENUGREEK an herb the vet told me to get from the health food store : ) we have had a good week - the puppies SLEEP alot and Lucky is a VERY GOOD MOMMA...........now the hardest part will be letting the puppies go in another 7-8 weeks : (
