I’m sorry to have left you all hanging – I had no idea how much work these puppies were going require. For those who want the quick news: Lizzie had the puppies by emergency c-section on Thursday, July 22, 2010. There are 5 girls and 2 boys. Everybody is doing well. Now for the long… Continue Reading
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Category Archives: Previous Litters
Week 9 Update
I can’t believe that Lizzie’s due date is tomorrow. We received the equipment from WhelpWise last week and began monitoring Lizzie once daily until Saturday, when we started monitoring her contractions twice daily. Things seemed to be moving along a steady clip with 3 contractions per hour on Saturday during both sessions and then 4… Continue Reading
Weeks 7 & 8 Update
Sorry that I didn’t get last Friday’s post up in a timely manner. We’ve been frantically getting ready for the puppies’ arrival and had family in from out of town to help us. The puppy room is painted, the whelping box is ready for paint, there’s linoleum covering the hardwood floors and there’s shades on… Continue Reading
Week 6 Update
Lizzie went for her second ultrasound on Wednesday, June 30th. She was 42 days into the pregnancy and there were 21 days left until she whelps. So were were hoping to see something that vaguely resembled this: Instead, we discovered that the puppies are too big to fit completely into the ultrasound image. As the… Continue Reading
Week 5 Update
Even without the ultrasound from last week, it is obvious that Lizzie is pregnant. Her nipples are getting bigger and darker in color. She’s also starting to fill out around her belly. Inside Lizzie, the fetuses are starting to look like tiny dogs at just over an inch in size. They are becoming boy &… Continue Reading
Week 4 Update
This has been a really big week for Lizzie & for us. She still looks and acts the same as always, but inside… Any embryos that successfully implanted into the uterus last week have grown from 1 cm to 3 cm. They now resemble little tadpoles, but instead of my talking about it, go watch… Continue Reading
Week 3 Update
Week 3 has come and gone in the blink of an eye. We still don’t see any physical changes in Lizzie, but she did start getting VERY picky about her food on Tuesday. Of course, she’s being spoiled rotten and we’re finding delectable tidbits to get her to eat something. Some dogs do suffer from… Continue Reading
Week 2 Update
I can’t believe its been two weeks since Lizzie was bred – the days are just flying. Lizzie is looking and acting like her usual self, so again I turn to the internet to tell me what exactly is going on inside there… 17 days ago, both ovaries (in theory) dropped eggs and they were… Continue Reading
Week 1 Update
Its been a week since Lizzie was bred. Since she looks and acts the same as she usually does, I decided to do some research to figure out just what’s going. I stumbled across these two articles, “Understanding and Monitoring Canine Pregnancy” and “Canine Pregnancy: Predicting Parturition and Timing Events of Gestation” which have really… Continue Reading