| DATE |
DEVELOPMENTS AND TEST RESULTS |
DIET |
WEIGHT |
| May 29 |
Ivory's 2nd Birthday |
Solid Gold
Hundenflocken Adult
3/4 cups per day
Divided into 2 meals. |
14.7 lbs |
| May 30 |
OFA Patella *
Normal
OFA Hips * Good |
|
|
| June 5 |
CERF * Clear |
|
|
| June 27 |
Blood Panel *
Normal
Brucella Titer * Negative |
|
14.4 lbs |
| June 28 |
OFA Cardiac *
Normal |
|
|
| June 29 |
DNA |
|
14.5 lbs |
| July 9 |
Day 1 of
Proestrus
(Bleeding) |
|
|
| July 13 |
Progesterone 1.53 |
|
|
| July 16 |
Progesterone 3.23 |
|
14.4 lbs |
| July 18 |
Progesterone 4.9 |
|
|
| July 19 |
Probable
Ovulation Date! |
|
|
| July 20 |
Progesterone 7.23
Began new food for pregnancy. |
Solid Gold Just
a Wee Bit Introduced 1 cup daily.
Divided into 2 meals. |
|
| July 21 |
First Breeding
|
|
14.4 lbs |
| July 23 |
Second Breeding (no tie) |
|
|
| July 24 |
Third Breeding
Reserved Whelpwise |
|
|
| July 28 |
One Week
|
Reduced food
to 3/4 cups daily.
Divided into two meals. |
14.9 lbs |
| Aug 4 |
Two Weeks
Morning sickness Aug 5 - Aug 9, then OK. |
Continue
3/4 cups daily.
Divided into three meals.
|
15.1 lbs |
| Aug 11 |
Three Weeks |
|
15.1 lbs |
| Aug 18 |
Four Weeks
Ultra Sound Confirms Pregnancy --
Shows four puppies!
Re-Submit DNA (first one didn't work!)
|
|
15.7 lbs |
| Aug 25 |
Five
Weeks
Ivory is definitely "showing". |
Increase food to 1 cup
daily.
Divided into four meals. |
16.7 lbs |
| Aug 30 |
Mild vaginal infection.
Progesterone is at 8.64.
Fetal heartbeat counted at 200 --- very good! |
Begin 10-day course of Clavamox
on vet's orders. Increase
food to 1 1/4 cup daily.
Divided into five meals. |
17.7 lbs |
| Sept 1 |
Six Weeks
Progesterone is at 7.79.
Ultra Sound shows
five puppies! |
|
18.1 lbs |
| Sept 4 |
Progesterone is at 7.71. Begin monitoring temperature. (see
temperature graph)
|
Increase food to 1 1/2 cups
daily.
Divided into five meals. |
18.5 lbs |
| Sept 6 |
Progesterone is at 8.92.
|
|
|
| Sept 8 |
Seven Weeks
Progesterone is at 5.66. |
Begin .25 ml Regumate
daily. |
19 lbs |
|
Sept 9 |
Puppies felt moving for the first time.
Oooooooooo joy! |
Food divided into six meals
now. |
|
Sept 11
|
Ultra sound shows
five puppies with good heartbeats and lots of
kicking and moving.
Progesterone is at 3.76.
|
Begin 2nd 10-day course of
Clavamox followed by
Acidophillus 2 hours after each dose. |
19.7 lbs |
Sept 13
|
Begin Whelpwise Service
Contractions. |
|
20.1 lbs |
|
Sept 14 |
Continued contractions.
Radiograph shows six puppies!
|
Begin Terbutaline at
1.25 mg
daily.
Increase food
to 1 3/4- 2 cups divided into 7
or 8 meals. |
|
| Sept 15/16 |
Eight Weeks
Increased contractions. Fetal heartbeats all
good and strong, though. Ivory has become HUGE. Days
easier, but nights include a lot of pacing, panting and nesting for
Ivory.
Frequent monitoring uterine contractions, Ivory's pulse and
fetal heartbeats.
Lots of worry and not much sleep for me. |
Increase
Terbutaline,
first to 2.5 mg daily, then to 3.75 daily.
Continue food divided into 7 or 8 meals.No decrease in
Ivory's appetite!
|
22 lbs |
| Sept 17 |
Ultra sound shows fetal hearts all good. Progesterone at 3.72.
C-Section scheduled for Wednesday 9/19. |
Increase
Regumate to .3 ml for today
and tomorrow.
Continue Terbutaline and
frequent monoroting. |
22.3 lbs |
| Sept 18 |
No contractions today as of four-thirty pm.
|
Last dose of
Regumate given at noon today.
Continue on Terbutaline as
usual. |
22.5 lbs |
| Sept 19 |
C-Section scheduled.
Six healthy, very active puppies
delivered at 11:00am, two boys and four girls. The smallest
was 6.04 oz and the largest, 8.32 oz.
|
|
22.1 lbs |
|
Sept 19-21 |
Supplemented puppies with tube feeding while waiting for Ivory's
milk to come in.
Ivory has very little interest in eating. |
Trying to coax Ivory into eating with various homemade recipies. |
|
| Sept 22 |
Ivory awoke filled with milk and six puppies taking advantage of
that fact.
Ivory's appetite picking up again.
Puppies dewclaws removed today. |
Goal is to transition Ivory to
Solid Gold for Puppies.
Eventually she should be eating between
3 cups and 3 3/4 cups daily. |
17.9 lbs |
|
Sept 23 |
Ivory's renewed appetite is continuing.
Thank goodness for Vicky Halstead's lactating bitch recipe!
Mixing that with kibble and warming it slightly with a little broth
has made all the difference! |
|
18.4 lbs |
