Friday, May 7, 2010

They're HEEEREE!

Jill's temperature dropped this afternoon and is dropping more and staying down. Called the theriongologist (that's a fun word to say) - take it again in 2 hours and call back. It was still down so we decided to go ahead and whelp the puppies tonight via c-section rather than trying to make it through the night on hopes (there would be no dreams because there is no chance I would've slept.)

Doing the c-section tonight was the right choice as the placentas showed that delivery was iminent. I'd hate to have lost any waiting around.

The delivery was exciting (and pretty fast.) I'm glad I had Brailled the stick on collars with numbers to put on them until we got the colored collars sorted out - I had a system for those and it was based on coat color and sex of the puppies. They didn't stick very well but did give us time to label the puppies.

Jilly and all of the puppies did quite well. Dr Greenfield delivered the left side puppies first and they were:
  • 14 oz black wavy male with white markings (Royal)
  • 13.3 oz black wavy female with white markings (Pink)
  • 10.7 oz brown wavy girl with very little white markings (Purple) - A potential puppy for Indy's little sister

Then he moved to the right horn and we had:

  • 14.5 oz black wavy male with white markings (Baby blue)
  • 13.2 oz brown wavy girl with white markings (Green)
  • and a big black wavy male with, you guessed it white markings 14.7 oz (Lime/Neon)

All of the puppies woke up well and waited in the incubator while Jill was put back together and woken up. We waited to see if she had enough of a progesterone drop to still be a good mother and either she did or, as we suspect, Jill would be a good mother no matter what. She was picking her head up winding her puppies in the incubator and as they got temperatures taken to make sure they were ready to nurse. One by one, she got her babies - only the litte purple girl had to wait a few extra minutes but she caught right on to the nursing thing when she was given the chance.

After they all nursed and peed (hey this is a blog about dogs, there will probably be lots of discussion about peeing and pooping,) we loaded them up to head back to the motel for the night. Cindi needed to sleep some for the big drive home. Hard to believe we were only gone 2 1/2 hours.

When I figure out where online to post all of our pictures, I'll post the link.

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