03/07/2025
Hello 👑 Playhouse Family! I put a video 📽 together in honor of our tiny goddess, Grace!🧚♀️ She deserved a proper burial.🌸🥀⚘️🌷🕯🕊
This passing really got to me.This little girl 💔 my heart. I felt like I let her down, like i could've done more, but i guess destiny was already written.
As soon as she was born, mom opened the sac and chewed the umbilical cord, I took over. I grabbed her to clean her and open up the airway, but she wasn't breathing.
After I worked on her, I managed to resuscitate her after a bit of non-stop rubbing, suction, chest compress, and a little CPR. But she wasn't really crying. I kept working on her, trying to get her to cry normally and move.
While I had her on the heating pad, the next pup was born, our merle girl, now ZEUS. Lol!
Then I go to the new baby, clean her up and weigh her, then I go back to Grace, 23 min later our last girl was born. Meanwhile, i have an ER tech on the phone.
I leave grace on the heating pad and go to the new puppy, by then grace is moving more but just kept crying in distress at this point I'm crashing 💤 really sleepy trying to continue to take care of the babies and mom giving her calcium in between babies.
By the time I'm done cleaning, weighing, and getting all babies to latch for a bit to give, mom her freshly made liver broth with other good stuff in it, I'm really tired. I pick up the mess, throw everything with hot water, detergent and bleach to soak.
Then i clean the whelping box and let mom go potty and finish their new setup to transfer them. I really hoped and prayed little grace would make it for a few more hours to call the vets I go to during biz hours. And she did, but most were telling me that she probably wouldn't make it to just to let her spend time with mom and me and try and feed her.
Then, after a few hours, I decided to take her to the hospital, just to give me peace of mind, but they really didn't know what was wrong with her. The docs started pumping her up, but nothing they did helped.
She was too weak, we did tube feeding there and i was advised to take her home and hope for the best, and continue tube feeding every 1-2 hours.
We had everything to continue but passed away 😢 on our way home. Momma felt it, she cried to let me know her baby had passed.
Most people think this is easy, but it's not. It's a tiring, sleepless 24-hour kind of thing sometimes.
It's a beautiful thing to witness new life and be part of raising them, but sometimes things go wrong, and it's out of our hands. Though, we know what to do in these situations, it's hard to stay calm.
Anyway, I just wanted to share her short life. This one hit me more than when there was a stillborn. I got to meet this baby and witnessed her last stages of life. Putting this video together made me relive it. 😢
I hope you all enjoy her beautiful pictures and video! Show her some ❤️!
We raise cockapoo's in a loving environment and around children/family. We love this wonderful breed.
