The help at childbirth is necessary to all dogs, especially - to dogs of small breeds. That everything passed smoothly, it is necessary to be prepared for this pleasant event. First of all, it is not necessary to be nervous. It is better to buy in pharmacy of calming in advance. Especially if it is first labor of your dog and you had not to participate in it earlier.
Preparation for childbirth
It is necessary to prepare: clean soft rags for rubdown of puppies, a towel for hands, sterile napkins from a gauze, iodine, hydrogen peroxide, bandage, Q-tips, vaseline oil, a hot-water bottle, a small box for an otsazhivaniye of puppies during the birth of the following, a bowl for afterbirths, sterile scissors.
In pharmacy it is necessary to buy insulin syringes, oxytocin, detsinon (styptic), a calcium gluconate, sulfokamfokain or magnesia (heart medicines), do not forget calming for itself.
It is necessary to prepare a box for childbirth with low boards. On a bottom it is possible to put the dense rug which is wrapped up in waterproof diapers. During childbirth it is impossible to leave a dog one even for a minute. Always it is necessary to be ready to help her. During the fights of a bough will begin to worry, and in breaks can lie down. You have to watch that she did not jump from a chair on a sofa or from a sofa on a floor! You watch closely a loop of a dog. As soon as the bubble seems, the firstborn means will be born soon.
During childbirth
Do not try to break through or pull out this bubble at all. Observe in what situation there are puppies. They can be born both the head, and back pads forward. If the puppy leaves back pads, then he has to go pads down. In case the puppy leaves back pads up, try to develop him. For this purpose grease with vaseline, purely washed up and disinfected, fingers, enter them into a loop and try to develop a puppy to the correct situation clockwise. If the head seemed, and attempts at a dog stopped, stroke a dog on a stomach strong, but gentle movements on the direction from edges to a basin. It has to cause a new attempt. If the attempt stopped, and the puppy got stuck halfway, coming back pads forward, your help is necessary. For this purpose it is necessary to take a gauze napkin, to wrap up a back part of a puppy and to move him with the unscrewing movement on a spiral, clockwise and on itself. Do not pull a puppy, just move! It has to cause an attempt. If it did not help, then massage a paunch and, having waited for an attempt, carefully extend a puppy. Do not pull a puppy without attempt at all, it can cause numerous ruptures of a uterus. When the puppy was born to him it is necessary to cut off an umbilical cord at distance of 1.5-2 cm from a stomach of a puppy, to process it peroxide of hydrogen and iodine. Pound a puppy a soft napkin, he has to begin to squeak. At once give mother's kid. Help it to take a nipple if it is impossible to it. As soon as the following attempts began, the been born puppies should be moved away in a separate box and to close that they did not freeze. In the first day temperature they in a nest have to have not lower than 28 wasps.
After the delivery
If after the delivery at boughs there is scarlet, but not brown blood, means there were gaps and it is necessary to make a styptic injection of a detsinon. 0.2 cube are enough. When all puppies were born, count quantity of afterbirths. Them has to be as much how many and puppies. If you after all are sure that one or several afterbirths did not leave, wait several hours. If everything remained without changes, make oxytocin injection 0.2-0.3 cube. If it did not help, and at boughs greenish allocations began, urgently call the doctor! In the first day after the delivery take temperature. Norm ─ up to 39 degrees. If temperature rose, there is no appetite, and atypical greenish or purulent allocations are observed, surely call the doctor. The delay can cost to a dog life. If the dog willingly eats also mood good, means childbirth passed successfully and you should not worry.