My Chihuahua Daisy delivered this morning!

Well at 4am this morning I was watching T.V. (I have had problems sleeping with Daisy so close to due date)  and Daisy was asleep in my lap.  Or so I thought.  I feel her suddenly jerk and see a full blown contraction.  I look at my pajama pants and I’m soaked, her water has broken.  I immediately take her to the whelping pallet. (Her favorite blanket that she has loved burrowing into since she was a puppy)  Okay her water has broke it can be as many as 24 hours till she delivers.

That’s not what happened.  Within 15 minutes of her water breaking I see the scariest contraction I’ve ever seen in a mother and bam out comes a puppy feet first.  I think shit its breached, not that big of deal but makes it more difficult to get the placenta out.  Out comes my first chocolate colored female puppy.  Daisy can’t get the sack broke so I break it for her tie the cord and cut it clean it up and it stops breathing.  Crap I must not have gotten all the fluid out.  I hate doing the sling/fling method but my suction bulb isn’t getting everything out and I can hear with the assistance of a stethoscope a gurgle in her chest.  So I do 4 flings and she starts making sweet sweet whines.  I give over the baby to daisy and she takes over cleaning and immediately puts her pup to nursing.

Her second pup is already crowning.  I haven’t even had a chance to get my rubber gloves on yet I’m covered in birth fluids and pretty nasty at this point so no point to starting now I’m clean and sanitized and she is also.  The second pup comes out with the bag already busted.  That’s not a good sign.  Fortunately I could actually hear it whining already.  So I clean this puppy up tie and cut the cord and give her over to daisy.  Okay this is about the point I would give her sugar water I know from xrays that she has 3 puppies so I need to get her some water with some energy in it. She’s already pushed out two within 7 minutes of each other without assistance.  She drinks a little and goes to cleaning herself and her puppies.

At 4:52am she goes into contractions again and we get puppy number 3 (Btw puppy number 2 was a boy and so was puppy number 3).  This time we get the puppy and the placenta all in one push. Daisy goes after the placenta of course (Well placenta isn’t really that nutritious for them it was actually instinctively a food supplement provide through natural cause for a wild dog that doesn’t have the ability to go hunt over a long period because of birth and also its instinctually ate to not attract predators). Well this puppy has probably the toughest sack I’ve ever broken to deliver a puppy I ended up having to use my sissors in two seperate spots to get it to bust.  Once busted I have to use the sling method to clear the puppies airways and get it started and then I quickly hand it to daisy and she does clean up and nursing.

At this point its probably 5:20 am and I go to checkin Daisy’s belly and she’s got a “knot” that is moving in her stomach.  Well hell she’s got a 4th pup that we didn’t notice on the xray. At 6:15am she delivers male pup number 4.  Daisy is starting to get tired and its visibly showing on her she’s sluggish and I had to do the Cord the Sack and pull the placenta on this puppy.

I go to check daisy’s abdomen and don’t really feel anything abnormal nothing moving so I begin clean up getting her out of her whelping bed into more suitable and clean arrangements for her and the puppies.  I get her into the heated puppy nursing bed I designed/modified (Long story) she gets another contraction.  No big deal she’s getting what’s left out of her system, you know afterbirthth and stuff of that gross nature.  I go to use the restroom cause its almost 7am now and I’m tired and need to use the restroom ont he way back from the restroom I hear Spencer (The father) which is in his crate approx 4 feet from the puppy bed howling his head off.  I rush into the living and lo and behold daisy is having a 5th beautiful chocolate colored female puppy.  I get the sack broken, pull the placenta and tie the cord rather quickly and begin the sling method.  The puppy isn’t breathing still.  Its moving but it isn’t breathing.  Okay I take my scoop (Something I made for clearing the throat of puppies,  Bad experiences in the past) and run into her mouth and  throat and pull out part of the sack when I was busting the sack the little gal must of tried to take a breath or something and got some in its throat.  Still she’s not breathing and she’s not moving I run the scoop one more time and nothing.  I try the sling method one more time and nothing.  Now I’m a sensitive guy and I’m almost in tears and quickly getting heart broken,  I mean damn everything else had gone pretty well this far, I start massaging the back and chest and I get the loudest whine I’ve ever heard out of a newborn.  She’s Breathing!!!

Well after cleaning up the bed again, (I cover it with old towels because daisy will be discharging for a day or so) and 4 hours later the puppies are all breathing and nursing like champions.  And I’m absolutely exhausted, my wife is home now and she’s going to watch them for a couple hours and give daisy her 4 table spoons of food every two hours (Yes I over feed them when they are nursing).  I’ve now got 5 beautiful dark chocolate brown chihuahua puppies and I’m in for an adventure with these guys over the next few weeks.  This is the largest litter I’ve personally whelped on a chihuahua and it was exciting and nerve racking because it was with my own Daisy.

I will get you guys some of the video and pictures I took after I get some sleep.  And i would like to thank everyone that had Daisy and I in their thoughts, you know who you are twitter friends.

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