Four lovely ladies and one handsome guy! Greta had her c-section and came through fine. We are now home and settled, so here are the pictures. I’ll write more of the details tomorrow, but I am pretty tired and so is Greta!
Dr. Julie and I with Ann waking up the sleeping ups after their birth..
Three girls all cleaned up and ready to roll!
Greta and her brood!
I am home briefly and then back to the Vets. Greta needs a C-section as the big puppy is across the opening of her birth canal, thus stopping any progression of the labor. I’ll be there with her and see the pups born and after Greta awakens we will come home. I will write later.
I’ve been up most all of the night. Greta has been in what I would call mild labor. I’ll call the Vet at 8 to check in with them. It seems every time I try to catch a little sleep she starts up again. She is currently in my chair (I swear this is where she will have the puppies!), with her blanket. If she starts some real action I’ll bring her back into the puppy room, but I need to recline a little and rest my neck and back.
More later…
Greta has started her labor. She is productive and so we will have puppies by morning. She is not happy with her whelping box, and keeps trying to get back into my bedroom, but that just isn’t going to happen.
I have moved a chair into the puppy room as my back was not doing well with kneeling or sitting on th tile floor. Once the puppies are here, I’ll put a mattress on the floor for the first few days so that both Mommy Greta and Granny Maribeth can rest. LOL
I’ll write more later…
Saturday went by with Greta looking at me with soulful eyes, and no action! I kept waiting, expecting her to either say something or produce a pup. She did neither. What she did do was, stick to me like glue, lie on the floor fully stretched out, and cause me more worry for her comfort than I thought possible.
Greta is your typical woman. She is pregnant and not letting go of those kids before she is ready to. In some ways I think she enjoys being pregnant! After all, we wait on her, we take her out whenever she wants and she can sleep in the bed wherever she choses and Hubby and I let her. This girl walks all over us!
However I know these days are soon to be over for her. She will have 5 (or perhaps 6), little buggers come into the world and they will demand her constant attention, her milk and her warmth for the foreseeable future, and after the first few days are over, I shall have the last laugh! I will be sleeping in my nice big bed with Hubby, and she will be in the whelping box with her brood of little terrors!
I do wish they would arrive though and not for any of the reasons you might guess except my own selfish ones. I want to see their darling, little faces. I want to hear their sweet whelping cries, and I want to see if one of those precious little babies is right for me.
Greta woke up this morning with a lower temperature. This usually indicates that the puppies will arrive sometime in the next 12-24 hours. I sure hope so. She also doesn’t seem to have any appetite, and has been shivering (this is all good!). So keep your fingers crossed!
There is nothing new to report here at Puppy central. Greta is still holding onto those babies, and so far she isn’t looking like she will have them today. Rats! I am definitely ready!
It is freezing here. Old Man Winter came in with a vengeance last night. About 3 AM I was up walking Greta in the 15 degree windy weather, and just when I thought I was done with that, I came in, ready to crawl back into my nice warm bed, and what do I hear? The plug for the outside Christmas lights blowing against my bedroom window. Bang! Bang! Bang! So on my bathrobe went, and the boots (because it snowed too), the hat and the gloves, and out I went to tie the plug down. I wasn’t sure I would be able to get back to sleep, but I started counting puppies and soon I was back in lala land.
Now we go back to watching Greta expand. You know, I think I saw a little doggie stretch mark today!
I’m tired.
Why is this, you might ask? It’s the suspense. I am waiting for Greta to pop out those babies and I am not sleeping as well as I normally do. I find myself watching her. All she has to do is walk across the room and I watch her.
At the same time, I am trying to get everything together for the puppies birth, get the last of my errands run before the puppies arrive and I am home bound. The only place I will want to be, I’m sure.
Tuesday I did my errands in the morning, and then settled in for the second day of writing Christmas cards. They are done now. All I need to do is edit our Christmas letter, and leave a blank space at the bottom of the note for a segment on Greta’s puppies and a place for the picture of her with them.
Meanwhile, I wait. Come on Greta, let’s see those babies!
Because I want you to see my little girl in all her pregnant glory, and because I also want to share with you my computer geekness (hihi), here is a short video I made of Greta today.
WHat do you think of my first attempt?
I’m trying to type a post, coddle Greta and comfort her and get a little coffee into my body. Not an easy thing to do.
Greta continues to grow at an amazing rate! She is also very uncomfortable now. Poor girl!
We had her outside yesterday and actually tossed a ball around for her. I will not lie and say that she ran around, waddled is a better word for it, but she enjoyed being out.
Now we wait.
I am not good at waiting!