Eat sleep and cry- that's all these 8 puppies can do- and their eyes aren't open. When they cry it sounds like a human baby, kinda weird. You can hear it in the birthing and whelping videos.
Here's a video of 5 puppies feeding in the midst of the birthing process- you can see Sera doing the licking and also panting between contractions.
I'll have to put up another post on how we made the whelping box and total birthing environment...
Some websites and people talk about how not all puppies "make it". Much like the military, I have a 'no puppy left behind' attitude. This means I've been working a lot today with the pups. I'm keeping my eye out for the ones that don't get enough nipple time, and/or don't seem to care. If you move them to the good nipples, mom licks them, they cry, and get more active and there's a better chance they'll grab the nipple and feed.
For some reason, though Sera has 9 nipples, some of them are not producing milk. Others are underneath her and she only seems to want to lay on her left side. That's leaving her with about 5 accessible good nipples... and some of these pups aren't as nipple-savvy as the others- you can put their face right up to it and they don't grab it- others do.
And of course, sometimes 5 of them are napping, so there are open nipples, and other times all 8 of them want to feed and there's not enough nipples to go around, like musical chairs, and there's a lot of crying.
Mom licks their butts a lot and I'm told that stimulates their digestive tracts. It makes them cry. I had to get the idea that crying is often good- I had to get that idea real quick when the puppies were being born- crying means they can breathe. But now sometimes, it means they're confused or hungry.
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