question to breeders -early birth

[Leen De Leebeeck-Van Genechten]

Hello,

unfortunately some bad news ...
Our sussex bitch was due to give birth on October 27.
Yesterday she didn't finish her food and she had a temperature of 38.6°
This morning she was 39.2° and the vet and I decided to put her on antibiotics.
At 11.30h she gave birth to a premature puppy, her temperature at that time was 38.6° again. At 14.30h another puppy was born, at 17.00h her fever was up again to 39.00° and she got her second table of antibiotics. 30 minutes later a third puppy was born.

I've heard from an Irish setter breeder that she once had this with one puppy being born 12 days early and the others just stayed inside till the 63th day.
Luka is very, very heavy and I think there are at least 6-7 more puppies in there (together with the 3 that were born this is immense for a sussex).

Does anyone of you has any experience with partial early birth? Will all puppies come out or is there still a chance that some stay in?
The puppies that were born weren't rotten or anything, they were nicely pink, just like 'in the books', but of course they had no chance of surviving.
Our main concern is the bitch now, but we don't ant to let her have a caesarian (our vet wants to wait sinde the puppies weren't rotten...)

For the moment Luka is calm, sleeping a bit, so I was wondering what the possible outcome might be.

Any reply welcome

thanks in advance

Leen & the Bournefield-clan
www.bournefield.be

[Marcella]

Sorry Leen .. the only thing we had is that our Shanna gave birth 10 days to early, this was due to 1 puppy that was already dead inside. Eventually 3 puppies were born alive, but the last one made it till the age of 1 week.

Keep my fingers crossed for Luka and hope she'll be alright

[Kim]

Never had that befor but...
I suggest you going to a special vet or a clinic directly to have her scanned or better x-ray to see if there are further puppies on their way or if they are fine still in the cervix uteri and see if their hearts are still booming and check the womb of your bitch and take some advice by the vet what you have to do now over the next days.
Don't wait, drive to a clinic and have her checked.

[Kim]

P.S: I keep my fingers crossed for your bitch and the rest of the pups

[Leen De Leebeeck-Van Genechten]

Thanks,
6 puppies came so far ...
I was at the vet's but he deciced to wait, no stress or anything. Her temperature is between 38.5 and 39 and as long as it doesn't go up, we just have to wait;
We will have her checked again with X-ray and ultrasound on Monday.
Don't have any hopes for pupies anymore, but I don't want to loose Luka ...

this is alos the first time this happens to me... and to be honest, I hope it's the last time as well ...
terrible experience...

thanks


leen

[Marcella]

Yes Leen I know what you mean.. this is really an experience that you that you don't want to go through as a breeder. Hope all goes well for Luka

[Silvia]

Leen we feel so sorry for you and cross our fingers and send our thoughts for
Luka. Hugs Silvia & Anja

[yvonne]

So sorry for this Leen , hope with Luka everythings goes well , give her a big hug from us

[Sofie]

So sorry Leen, we cross our fingers for Luka!!

[Agnieszka]

Sweet Luka, we wish her and You happy end . People think that beeing breeder is so easy...

[Leen De Leebeeck-Van Genechten]

we just got back from the vet.
As we thought, all the pippies have been born.
Luka is slowly recovering.
Thanks for all your kind words ...

leen

[Doris Archam]

All the best for Luka, this is really not a good year for breeding plans.

[tonie jaconelli]

OUR THOUGHT ARE WITH YOU I HOPE LUKA IS BACK TO HER SELF SOON