January 3, 2010 Day 61

I know I have not blogged in a few days, however, yesterday afternoon on day 60, Wicca lost her mucous plug and within a few minutes we had labor. The first was an empty sac, she expelled it and then can another sac! Wicca was a champ and pushed for 2 hours, within those 2 hours I started to see feet! Wicca was having trouble push the baby out. I took K-Y Jelly and tried to help with the delivery. After about 30 minutes of this I noticed that Wicca was getting tired and running out of steam. I took her to a near by Emergency vet clinic whose name will not be mentioned.

You know I discovered something about vets these days. People become vets because they want to help animals out then before long it becomes all about the money. They told me everything was normal and that Wicca was healthy. Then they dropped the bomb on me...

They were wanting to do an X-ray and Ultrasound and it was all going to come to about $1100.00. When I explained to them that I did not have the money we then became not as important. They left us in the room while they had Wicca in the back, for an hour we sat there. They then told me that they were able to pull the puppy that was stuck out and that they were working on it. Fourty-five minutes later they informed me that the puppy did not make it. They asked if I wanted to see the puppy I said "Of course."

The Puppy was a boy and he was quite large, I named him Casper because he was a spirit now and the door to our little exam room kept comming open.

They let us take her home after I paid $85.00 just to walk in the front door. The doctor had told us that she should start to contract within an hour and sure enough we had just walked in the door and she was pushing again. Within about 30 minutes Wicca gave birth to a very small little girl. When she was born she was not breathing but gasping for air. She was not moving and at first it did not look good. Robert and I rubbed her and blew into her face and after an hour I gave her a little bottle with formula in it and she came around.

I kept a heating pad in the bucket with mommy and daughter, I checked on them through out the night and this morning she is squeaking and moving around the whelping box. My mom has named her Shazi Marie for a dog she had that past away a few years ago.

I wish I could keep this one she is so cute however, it is not possible. I will keep you posted on how she is growing. Right now she weights about .198 ounces, and she is about 7 or 8 inches long. She looks just like mama.