Mira is today on day 28 of her pregnancy and I think it is now very obvious that she is pregnant. At least to me... ;-) I see her underline has dropped down and she is rounder around her belly if you compare the photos above.
And this poor dog is hungry ALL the time! She is luckily not steeling any food but she will stare at my plate until I have finished every last bite.
And to be honest now and then she also get's a piece. To prevent foodallergies in puppies studies shows that bitches who get's to eat some mixed humanfood aswell as their normal dogfood get less allergic puppies. So Mira is happy and hopefully we will get healthy puppies too!
Below are some new photos of her from today, taken on day 28 of her pregnancy. 

Today I couldn't wait any longer! I had to know if Mira and Idde was expecting puppies. I had plan to do an ultrasound tomorrow but well, today at lunch we headed for my old workplace so I could check her today.
We found puppies right away! It is impossible to try to count because they are so small and disappear easily, so you never know if you count the same one twice...
But it doesn't matter, now I now we will have puppies and can prepair for that. The puppies will be born around the 31 st of August, so almost 6 weeks left. 
I will make an X-ray of Mira's belly closer to the end and then attempt to count how many puppies she has, so we are prepared for the delivery.
I weighed her today and she weighed 38,9 kg. Usually they gain around 1 kg per puppy by the end of their pregnancy.
Below are photos from the ultrasound, the black bubbles are the "puppies", or they are inside them.

She just has to be pregnant?! Looking trough the photos from yesterdays show I think her underline has changed a bit. I think she is round further back and that tells me she has a pregnant belly.
On the photos she is on day 0 and on day 18 of her pregnancy, if you look at where they white arrow on the second picture points you can see what I mean.
And as I wrote the other day, her appetite shows the same sign! Well, hopefully in a few days we will know for sure!

We are now back from our vacation and Mira is today on day 18. Happy that they days has been filled with activites and these soon 3 weeks has passed by pretty fast.
Mira is hungry as beast... she always likes food but now she is just being rude... ;-)
No one has been able to eat without her watching these last few days up north hiking! I really hope that is a sure sign of pregnancy! 
I will call my vetclinic and see what day they have an appointment available next week so I can make an ultrasound to get an answer for sure if she is pregnant.
But my guess from her behaviour is that she will have about 16 puppies!! 

This past Monday Mira was on day 7 of her pregnancy counting from the first mating. That means she is today on day 10. I am happy that the days are going by fast at the moments, I just want to get her pregnancy confirmed! It is too early to see any signs yet, so I just have to wait.
Took some photos of her belly on Monday so I have something to compare to as she grows bigger the next couple of months.
I will make an ultrasound around day 21-28, so almost halftime until then now! 

For the past week we have had NORDUCH SEVCH Mankoya's  Incredible Idde by Gambo "Idde" her to mate our girl SEUCH SEVCH RLDN RLDF Kadamo Bringin' It Back "Mira".
We took a first progesteronetes last Thursday on day 12 in her heat and it showed only 3,9 nmol/L. So I knew it would take a few more days before she would be ready. 
Because Idde doesn't live near us and his owner was going away just this weekend we made arrangement to bring him to us on Friday evening. Mira was not ready then but already on Saturday morning her behaviour changed. 
The whole weekend they flirted and had good attempts of mating but it was still a little bit to early.
On Monday morning day 16 I took the second progesteronetest and now it showed 48,3 nmol/L. So now it was about time for a mating, and just as I wished for it they did it!
The day after they were on it again and we had a second mating on day 17, and again on Wednesday, day 18. 
The two of them has done it all so well. They really preferred to be on their own without me trying to help out. So I let them and that worked just as it should. No one holding them, no force. 
I was a bit suprised that Mira was interested in Idde for so many days so I took a third bloodtest after the third mating just because I was curious. 
So the day of the third and final mating, day 18 her progesteronelevel was on 59,8 nmol/L. So they timed it all very well and now we hope for a lovely bunch of puppies in 9 weeks!
Puppies expected around 31st of August and I will make an ultrasound in about 3 weeks to hopefully get the pregnancy confirmed!
For more information about the parents of this litter visit the Planned H-litter page and to follow the pregnancy visit the H-litter Pregnancy Diary.
Below are mixed photos of the couple from the past week here together with us. Enjoy!