Birth Announcement - 2019
September 1, 2019
Farrah and Jim are proud to announce the birth of two shiny black girls born around midnight on September 1, 2019.
Both puppies were breach births. The first one became stuck (with nothing but her hind legs dangling out) for a long period of time. I was finally able to get her out by wrapping her In a terry towel dish cloth and pulling her out gently. She gasped for air upon arrival but did not move around for the first hour of her life. We kept massaging and rubbing her under a heat lamp until finally she began to move. Then she let out a small cry of protest. We knew at that moment that she would live and we both gave a sigh of relief.
The second puppy arrived three hours later. This one came out kicking and fighting! As soon as she was rubbed dry, we put her on a nipple where she settled in for a big meal.
The two girls are quite large for newborns – weighing in at 8 and 7-1/2 ounces respectively. In the past we have had puppies who only weighed 3-1/2 ounces. The average is about 6 ounces.
This morning the puppies are doing well, eating and sleeping; eating and sleeping some more. Farrah is such a good mother. The babies rarely cry; they are content, which is unusual for newborns.
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Farrah with her two new puppies born Sep 1, 2019
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GCH Aisles James T Kirk (Jim)
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