Puppies!!

Ali and Sofie's 1st litter

Born: April 19th, 2025

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Hi everyone! I'm going to be using this blog as a space to give weekly updates on the puppies (or pupdates). Today marks one week since the birth. So far everyone is doing good. The puppies are gaining weight daily.

This is a new experience for both Sofie and I. We are both learning new things every day. She has been such an amazing mother so far. Its awesome to watch her motherly instincts come to life. Her puppies are just as cute as she is.
On Friday the 18th at about 1pm she started panting and nesting around the house. We already had her acquainted with the whelping box/pool we had made up for her. Nights before her big day she had been sleeping out in the living room. Usually she would come to bed with us and hop up on the bed for the night. We didn't want her sleeping alone so we put a mattress in the living room and camped out. I stayed up most of Friday night not wanting her to go into labor in the night and miss it. She made it through the night and started contracting at about 1:45pm on Saturday. Of course she felt the mattress was a better place to give birth rather than the box. I told her that she can choose wherever she feels most comfortable. She pushed out boy number 1 at 2:01pm. 29 minutes later, female number 1 was born. Then 4 more females in the next 30 minutes. When we had gotten the x-ray done at the vet, they saw at least 6 for sure, but we knew there were more. We figured we were expecting at least 7. 20 minutes after puppy number 6, Sofie started pushing again. Boy number 2 was born at 3:42pm. Sofie looked very tired and she seemed as though she was done. She had a tougher time getting number 7 out. We didn't see anymore contractions, so we started cleaning her up, thinking she was done. At about 4:25pm she contracted once again. We all looked at each other in awe. We couldn't believe she was about to have another! We knew this one was going to be hard because she was getting tired at this point. At 4:35pm she pushed out number 8, a female! We cleaned her up and right away I could tell something was wrong. I didn't feel any movement. I kept rubbing and creating stimulation to get the body moving. I still wasn't feeling anything. I thought maybe it couldn't breathe so I tried sucking water out it's nose making sure its airways were free. Still nothing. Sadly she had a stillborn. One of the saddest things I've ever seen was watching my baby girl realize one of her puppies didn't make it. My hands were shaking. I look down at Sofie and I watch her contract again. At 4:58 she finally had her last female. I'm so proud of my girly, she did such an awesome job delivering her puppies.
I look forward to our next pupdate, where we should see some eyes opening up. It's been really fun to watch how fast they grow.