Hello can anybody help, yesterday we had a litter of 2 pups born by C section, both pups were water babies, the vet tried with the better of the pup for 45 mins but with no joy. Does anybody here have any experiance with this matter?
Many thanks 

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Not sure what you mean by "water babies?"  Bit more info would be helpful.  Sorry that the outcome was not good :-(

Water babies are born completely or partially edemic

http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/whelpingwaterpuppies.htm

im so sorry for your loss, that sounds so horrible x x x

Hello and thank you very much for your reply's, I had found thst website and founf it usefull just wondered if anyone here had been through the same thing and did they go on to have a normal litter?
Water babies also known as walrus pups and hyperdrops its were the pup fills up with water and drowns just after birth by their lungs filling up with the fluid.

You learn something new in dogs every day.  I have never come across water babies before and I hope I never do.  I hope mum is recovering well despite her sad loss.

yes sadly i experienced this with my homebred girl 3 years ago, she delivered 2 puppies at home (though with difficulty) then everything stopped, xray and scan at the vets showed no obstructions or blocked puppies so she was given oxytocin she went on to VERY slowly deliver upto pup number 9 then became exhausted, after alot of upset and tears the only option left was a c-section as a scan showed there was still one puppy left, when they opened her up she has 3 puppies left two live and healthy and one water puppy that was dead and had been for a while.

Things went very badly for my girl as due to the oxy forcing contractions on a puppy that was 3 times bigger than normal she also ended up with a ruptured uterus and had 2 vets operating to save her life while i sat and sobbed on the vets floor!
Thank god my girl pulled through and i feel very lucky to still have her here.
Water puppies do not show on xray as the oversize is all due to fluid so this is why they are not picked up, as if we had known we would of opted for a c-section straight away. A very frightening experience.

My girl was spayed so i cant answer if she would have had a normal litter in the future, we did keep 3 puppies though and 2 daughters have both had a beautiful and healthy litter each.
I cant imagine many walrus puppies being born naturally as the size of my girls puppy was unbelieveable it was huge and there is no way that she would ever of delivered it, thats why her body stopped contracting, its natures way of saying it shouldnt, but it was our fault for forcing the contractions with oxy that led to the rupture......something which i beat myself up about for a long time.

I hope that that was my first and last walrus puppy as it is very sad indeed, but thank god my girl came through it all