They ARE coming now...

We So the first pup came at about 430 pm.  No real hard pushing involved!

 He was difficult to bring around...a little blue but after a bunch of rubbing & suctioning his mouth & nose finally he started panting with his tongue out...
Crazy how they can raise their blood oxygen quickly at this age by doing that.  He was very slow to suckle but once he did in just a few minutes after I squeezed the first milk into his mouth he was ready to get on a teat on his own.  

Second pup came about 5:15.  Pure white "little Boomer"....I haven't even checked if it was a boy!  (it is)

 Third pup came quickly but with a lot of fluid...and after trying to get him to breathe for a few seconds I could tell it was a stillbirth.  Fourth, same thing only probably died yesterday & the other likely 2 days earlier.  Both were beautifully spotted. 

Like his dad he wasted no time getting on to eat.

Dinner in the bathroom....eating in here and waiting on the next pups!

A fifth puppy is born dead and after 12 minutes I just let him be.

Poor little one never took one breath even with mouth to nose work, nothing.

  A couple of hours have passed and Salty is doing well thankfully but we have no more live births other than the two... They are aggressively nursing.  She has given birth to 2 live, 4 stillborn puppies and 3 mummified ones (dead over a few days) but we are thankful for a healthy mom & two lovely babies!

Well its now about 12:06 and I am up taking a break from watching pups to blog again....it will be a long night up watching them nurse and making sure Salty gets along ok.  She ate a little canned food and finally drank some water, she pushes a little here and there but probably just some small contractions as puppies nurse now.  Will take her temperature in the AM to watch for infection.  Nite...