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Just cake watching

11/13/2020

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A bitches gestation is around 63 days (9 weeks). Blottie was five weeks from her first mating on Monday and five weeks from her last mating on Wednesday. So she is around 37 to 39 days pregnant. She is looking big for this stage of pregnancy and from palpation she is giving all the signs of carrying another good size litter. Which actually worries me rather than making me rub my hands with glee seeing £ signs. 
She is ravenously hungry all the time at this stage. I think because of her size she is getting as much in, as she will struggle to eat as she blossoms. I tend to find bitches ravenously hungry at this stage is often an indication they are carrying a good size litter. I made some sausage rolls for pack lunches yesterday and this morning one of our children left one of the sausage rolls a bit to close to the side in the kitchen, as they turned to the cupboard to get the cling film. They turned back and the sausage roll was gone and so was Blottie, who had been watching them closely. She was found in the living room eating the last morsals of the sausage roll. A bit naughty, but she is pregnant.
​The two photos are of her watching us eating a bit of cake with afternopon tea, after she had just eat a plate of meat and biscuits. The look on her face, you would think she had had nothing to eat all day.
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Emily Backhouse
11/13/2020 10:06:25 am

I bet Blottie was very pleased with her sausage roll! Has she managed to recover from her sickness from one of your previous posts?

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Jane
11/13/2020 10:25:26 am

Having experienced sickeness during pregnancy, I found it either happened to me due to a smell setting it off (heavily perfumed people when shopping would see me rushing to the nearest toilet to vomit, often nothing coming up. Perfume though does make my tummy rumble when I'm not pregnant) or going to long between eating. We feed the dogs late morning and those who are fed twice a day get fed again in the evening. Blottie tended to be sick in the morning before being fed and sometimes in the afternoon before being fed, so we started giving her a little fed in the morning before her late morning food and a little fed in the afternoon before her evening food. This seems to have stopped the sickness or she may of just passed that phase.

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Lucy
11/13/2020 02:18:47 pm

Wow - she really is looking very pregnant indeed. Bless her.

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Jane
11/14/2020 09:32:07 am

Morning sickness is usually related to a low blood sugar (after a period of fasting)
Eating as soon as you are wake helps counteract this.
So yes you are doing the best thing for her by letting her eat first thing in the morning.
Small frequent meals are the key (particularly as the pregnancy progresses and there is less room in the abdomen)

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Susy
11/14/2020 01:10:59 pm

Wow I remember that hunger feeling from being pregnant too! But with only one baby at a time! Hope she’s ok x

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Kathy
11/16/2020 02:54:46 pm

Wow , she is blooming - and looking well ! Hope she enjoyed her sausage roll! 😊

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