BLUE, PINK, GREY, YELLOW, PURPLE AND RED

I got to sleep with Coco and her pups last night.
Normally Steve would have... it's his room after all... but as Steve has a job interview this morning I decided to watch them overnight.

I didn't sleep much!  I spent a lot of time 'rescuing' a puppy who wandered off or went behind Coco...

But.. all is good.  Coco is a fantastic little mother.  Teddy got too close at one point last night and one of the puppies cried (just by chance)... Well!  Coco rounded on Teddy, latched onto his face and growled ... Teddy backed off immediately! (She didn't hurt him, just warned him)

So her mothering instinct is well and truly there.

ABOVE:  Coco and her six.... I don't blame her for that face... she was tired after two solid hours of pushing puppies out!

ABOVE:  the line up.... all present and accounted for.

The biggest puppy weighed 218 grams... he was the first and breech.
Our smallest puppy weighs 125 grams... she is our little runt.  I'm keeping a close eye on her.

Now they are all here we are trying to tell who is who!  They are all slightly different in colour/patterns... so eventually we will be able to tell who is who.
For now they have on their little collars and we are calling them by their colour.

I think today will be spent hovering over them... I can't think of anything else!

ONWARD....

Stew took the morning off work so he could take Steve to his job interview.  Fingers crossed for Steve everyone.

The puppies are patchy right now... but they might go much whiter as they get to about 1 yr old,  as that's what Teddy & Coco did.

Struggling.... to stay awake.  Must have a nap.... this pulling an all nighter is NOT fun.  Stuff being a midwife! 

I just woke up after a good two hour nap. 
Puppies:
Three boys, 1 mostly black patches and the biggest, 1 mostly greyish patches and 1 mostly brown patches...
Three girls, all have predominantly black patches... but different markings.  Pink has a black spot on her right hand side, Yellow is the runt and has two tiny black spots on her back among all her patches and Purple has a white patch on her back that I think looks like 'Big Bird' from Sesame Street.

I talked to the Vet this afternoon just to make sure she knew what was happening... I expressed concern about not seeing even one Placenta... she assured me Coco no doubt ate them all!  Ikkkk... makes me feel a bit ill that does. lol
ALSO, she told me to get the collars off them as they could get hurt with them on... so off they came.  She said leave them off until the pups are bigger.
That's fine as Steve and I now know who is who... which we need for when we weigh them so we know how each one is doing.

I'm impressed that we can already tell them all apart!  

Coco's pups weighed in at 1.04 kilos combined... what a way to lose weight Coco! As she is only about 5 kilos herself that was a lot of puppy in her belly.  Bet she feels better now!

End of Day:  I got really scared for Coco tonight... her temperature went up to 102.2 !  So I fed her ice cream, turned off the heat lights and waited.... after an hour she finally perked up, went outside for toilet (1st time since having pups) and ran around the house and chased Teddy and Steve for a while before returning to her pups.  Phew!  So relieved.  We think she just was too hot in the whelping box with the heat on.  It's going to a juggling act to keep her cool enough and the pups warm enough! 
Steve is doing the overnight shift watching her tonight.  Yaaa... maybe I will get a decent sleep tonight?
nite nite.