Day 6 - Fury's ready for a break

Last night was pretty rough. Around 11, as I was shutting everything down for a 5 am wake up call to do some online classes, Fury started getting super restless. Whine whine whine. The puppies were pretty vocal too with their grunting. I am obsessed with her having enough milk production so when they get complainy like that I worry. I don't know that Fury's getting a lot of fluids, but her water bowl does go down throughout the day, even if I don't see it.

So, I want to go to bed, but what I have is a complainy mom and complainy babies. I worry they are having stomach problems (Fury isn't nearly as licky as she was at first) so I stimulate some genital areas to get stuff going and Fury follows suit. I don't know if that fixed it. I check baby bellies to see if they are full enough. Yeah . . .

So I sit with Fury, who stops complaining. And her babies stop complaining, and then I go to bed.

I hear Fury tickled her feet on the wood paneling down the hall to check to see if I am available and then she goes back to the box and whines. I get back up. It is now midnight. Repeat.

This happens again at 3 am, only this time I've left my door open for her to come in, and she does - shooting under the bed (where she normally sleeps - she's a denning dog) and she starts scratching at the carpet. It's remarkably like her labor.

I kick her back out, get everyone nestled in, and go to bed. Never mind the classes, Kristin needs her sleep.

6 am, it happens again. The puppies still all look fine, but Fury is really not happy. I open the front door and she goes under the deck and sits there, then runs in and goes under the bed. At this point, I think she just wants a break. Poor thing. I check her nipples, all is in order. She looks fit. Back to bed.

So this morning I get up and she is happy to see me, leave the puppies, comes and sits on the bed for a moment, checks me out in the bathroom while I'm brushing my teeth and then goes back to the box but just stands there.

As I am writing this, she just came in again and scooted under the bed. Maybe she's ready for a daily walk now. The puppies are doing well and sleeping happily without her on the heating pad, so I guess she just needs a break. And is ready for some Kristin loving. Or maybe she just misses Yishai. :)