07/08/2025
Maggie’s litter arrived safely on Tuesday night 5/8/25 by caesarean. After starting to nest early in the morning and attentively watching her all day she finally had a contraction at 650pm. Knowing our girls really well and understanding how a text book delivery should progress after 1.5 hours of contractions and no progress we opted for the caesarean. It’s important to act quickly and not make a dog try for hours before helping her, we always have a proactive and preventative approach in the care of our dogs.
We suspected by 7 weeks Maggie was going to have a big litter so organised X-rays which were unclear, the vet was guessing 8 puppies we we’re guessing at least 10 from just her size and we’re mentally thinking this may be a caesarean delivery.
So end of a long story after a quick caesarean, we received the call that there were 12 healthy pups delivered. Maggie went from 39kg before to 30kg (her normal body weight )after delivery. Puppies weighed between 430g and 560g so nice sized pups. We have 3 yellow males, 3 black males and 6 black females.
Mum and puppies are doing well and we are assisting her with bottle feeding every 4 hours to make sure no one misses out, while mum is being fed 4 times a day to help stimulate milk supply and maintain her normal body weight - 30kg. Our lactating bi***es never loose weight we aim for them to put on a little weight so we know we are meeting all her nutritional requirements and the requirements of her puppies.
Maggie is such a great mum she has such a beautiful stable and calm temperament she is highly attentive and affectionate to her babies. I’m sure they will all do well.
