Hi  l think my bitch is in stage 1 she is very quite shivering and restless but wont go in the  whelping box  how long should l expect this to go on l suppose l should not go to bed tonight

yep sounds like your up allllllllllllll night
good luck are you all prepared?

l think so getting nervous as seem to come round quite quick  she gone to sleep now so not sure now weather in stage 1 or not

> shivering and restless but wont go in the  whelping box 

The trembling will be pain.  Don't worry about her not going in the box, you don't want to distress her.

I do tend to let my girls give birth where they want (within reason obviously, not under the apple tree in the garden at midnight!)  :-)

Once whelped, you will find that, if you carry her pups to the whelping box, she will be only too pleased to follow you.

> l suppose l should not go to bed tonight

Darn right you shouldn't!!!

Hi  1st pup born at 2.36  a boy but sadly only lived for 1 hour  l

Hi pup 2 girl only lived 15 min 3rd pup boy hanging in there bitch seems very rough this time.

wnen my pups first come i always give 2 drops of life aid just in case they begin to struggle and then straight on mum for that first milk
so sorry to hear about your first 2 hope everything goes on better

Sorry things are going so badly

Are the deaths due to Mum being rough or was there something wrong with them?

I have Dopram drops and Vet drops on hand to revive pups

I hope things. go better

How many are you expecting?

Hi  both pups started out ok mum was just to rough with them and just did not cope so well this time she has had 3 more and that makes 4 alive and doing well at the moment mum is feding and quite settled now  thanks for your help people during the  early hoursfingers crossed for the next 48 hours

Congratulations on the surviving pups, glad to hear mum has settled now.  Fingers crossed for continued improvement :-)

So relieved that you didn't go to bed!!!

It's never easy losing pups, but I am so glad that your girl is alright, and does have some babies to suckle.

jloubs
Just a thought, you said the firstborn only lived an hour.  Did you empty any fluid out of the lungs?

hi it was doing ok bresthing moving around until mum picked him up and held him in her mouth running all over the kitchen dinning room then she bite him and he died. l tried to get her to settle with him but to no avail . the 2nd pup had a very strange looking tummy almost like it was flat so she only lived a short time  but other 4 doing ok mum feeding non stop and going for wees

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Good!  I bet you are now looking like a zombie.  :-)  Your girl has obviously settled well.  You're allowed to heave a sigh of relief!

But I bet you won't sleep for quite a while.  If you're anything like me, you will be running on adrenaline.  :-)

Glad to hear she has settled down to being a good Mum