What can I tell you? She's excited to go outside to do her business but will only go when they are all sleeping. Then she does a happy dance to show the others - look at me. Her first day she was a bit intimidated by Emmy and Rowan but that has passed. All 3 had to adjust. Today I caught her in Rowan's pen kissing up her babies and Rowan didn't mind. Bravo!! I had just placed her down and went to gather dishes to replenish.
Dennis last night realized she had two nipples up almost to her neckline hidden under hair. I hadn't shaved that high not realizing she had 2 additional milk stations. You will remember we were not ready so we, well I was shaving her belly after her first puppy. One of the milk stations is working well but the other is not fully formed but has milk. This happens sometimes in mature gals too. It has milk in it but none of the pups will eat from it. We have had this issue before. How do you handle it? You manually express to relieve the pressure and in doing so you hope you get it to the point where a pup will use it and then that will be it giving 2 milk stations for each puppy. Today all we can manage is to squirt some in a puppy's mouth, which they don't mind.
This morning Saffron refused to eat. I figure she was uncomfortable and any woman that has had babies knows that being too full is not fun. After I manually expressed, Nathan got her to eat steak - yum and kibble and cheese and mousse and chicken and the list goes on. Her bowels remain solid. Usually mom's have issues for a week or two after birth. Not her.
Now that the dust has settled, we will talk about the pups. The one that appears black is actually a tri. Seems to have a silver sheen so the verdict is out on colour. One of the spotted pups is black and white and one is brown sable and white. Another is brown sable and the next is brown and white.
Pups are all gaining. They are all eating and lively. You will even see in one video how a puppy climbs right over her quite literally. Always said this line was mighty agile.
Here are the videos: