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| Mama and her babies |
Hops' second litter of babies were born on Monday, January 23, 2017 at her breeders home in Turlock. Before she was due we had an xray that showed us 3 babies.
She was antsy all nite and I was communicating with the breeder as we tried to determine when we would head over to witness the birth. At about 5 am, the breeder said she was certain she would deliver that day but it was impossible to know when. We decided to get up, shower and hit the road. It takes almost 2 hours to drive there and when we were 5 minutes away, we were told she was starting to push!
Unfortunately, she pushed for an hour and with a lot of help delivered a little yellow male baby, who was stillborn. We are assuming he just took too long to be born and was without oxygen. Based on that and the fact that she didn't seem to be having regular, productive contractions, we made the decision to take her to the vet. After conversing with the vet for a few minutes, he decided it was best to do an emergency csection. She was prepped and within 10 minutes these two little love nuggets were born healthy!
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| About 15 minutes old! |
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| While waiting for their mama, they crawled all over each other |
We took the babies home and fed them puppy formula while we waited for Hops to be done with surgery. She stayed at the vet for about and hour and a half while she came out of the anesthesia and they made sure she was ok. They wanted to make sure she was ok because she had vomited during the surgery.
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| Puppy butts |
We went and got a very drugged Hops and brought her home to her babies. She walked in, smelled them and laid down. We put the babies on her and they immediately nursed. Grace and I stayed there a lot longer than we had planned because I could not leave Hops until I was sure she was resting comfortably. It was a bit traumatic watching her recover as she was shivering and breathing really heavy. We gave her more pain meds and she seemed to feel better.
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| Male puppy ramming speed female puppy! |
Hops has continued to recover and is taking really good care of her babies. All these pics are of the puppies when they were less than 4 hours old!
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| Puppy stubby leg |
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| Puppy tail - boy pup |
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| Back t back nursing - if you look close, you can see male pup's tongue sticking out! |
Be sure to turn up the volume on the video to listen to the noises the baby girl makes while nursing!
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