YAY! Puppies!

I am exhausted! Justin got home last night around 5:30 to find Sadie had already delivered her first pup of the litter. We are guessing that she had a very strenuous labor with him due to her exhaustion. Sadly, the little white and brown male had been dead for well over an hour by the time Justin got there. We aren't exactly sure what happened, but we are assuming that he was either still-born or suffocated during birth or shortly thereafter. Sadie was taking good care of her dead baby when Justin got home, which only made it more sad.

I arrived home shortly after 6. Sadie appeared to go into labor again not too long after I got home. Justin and I watched and waited, hoping everything would go okay. The baby's head came out but before it was all the way out, Sadie started licking and cleaning the sac. It broke, as it's supposed to. However, because the baby wasn't completely out yet, it sucked back up inside of Sadie. We called the vet hoping to be able to get some instruction. After reaching in and feeling around, we concluded that we could not reach the baby and it was probably a goner since it could no longer breathe.

Then Sadie just stopped. She completely gave up and quit having contractions. Per our vets instruction, we rushed her in to the Pet Emergency Room. Three shots, two pulled pups, one x-ray, and 7.5 hours later we were heading home with 6 beautiful healthy little pups and an extremely tired mama Sadie.

I am so glad we went in to the ER. They had to do some fancy foot work to get the pups to come. The one who went back inside was almost too big to pass through the birth canal. She was the fourth puppy born at the vets and is breathing just fine.

Now I'm tired and can't wait for a great night's sleep tonight!