04/08/2025
Meet Winston (black and white) and Eleanor (blue and white)!
Warning, long post ahead!
These beautiful babies had us on our toes, I’ll tell ya! Lexi went into labor yesterday afternoon and by 5:15 had started pushing. Winston arrived first at 5:58 and with no complications. Lexi then went on to resting for about half and hour before she started pushing again. Poor mama pushed and pushed and pushed for two hours with little progress made. We were just about to take her into the emergency vet when Eleanor finally entered the end of the birth canal. Lexi kept pushing at this point, but Eleanor was stuck and we couldn’t help get her out, so we made the decision to head to the emergency vet. At this point, puppy had been stuck for about an hour and a half. We live in a rural town about 30 minutes away from the emergency vet, so we loaded her up and left. Literally five minutes from the vets office, Eleanor finally made her entrance into the world after 4 hours of pushing after a big push from Mama Lexi. Unfortunately, because she had been stuck for a while, she had a harder time coming around, but she finally started breathing. We turned around and came home and when we got back home, we discovered that Eleanor was extremely lethargic wasn’t using her back legs. I became nervous that she had possibly been in the birth canal for so long that she was now paralyzed. I went ahead and gave her some supplemental formula because she was having a harder time latching due to being so tired and having a harder time getting around. I woke up around 4:40 in the morning to feed her again and she already was starting to show some signs of movement in her legs. Fast-forward to waking up this morning around eight and she has even more movement in her legs and has started nursing like a champ. We are now at almost 10 at night and she is now not only moving her back legs, but has started pulling them up under her and trying to use them! She is a little champ and just needed some extra time to recover. I couldn’t be more proud of Lexi. She is, of course, the best momma to her last two beautiful babies, and she handled the whole situation perfectly considering. 💙🩷🐶
