Today the puppies are 8 days old. Everything goes on like normal. Today I have seen that several of the puppies has started to open their eyes. It will probably take a couple of days before the are really open. Look forward  to it, they all become more personalities when they start to see and walk around.
Below are one video of Moa and the puppies from yesterday and one of Moa, the puppies and their big sister Yaya.
Yaya absolutely love the puppies and treassure every second Moa let's her be in the puppybox with her and the puppies. She will love it even more when they get bigger!
Below the videos are a few pictures from yesterday and some from today. Enjoy!

I couldn't stop myself... since I still have a lot of free time on my hands as long as the puppies are these small and "easy", I decided to update todays new photos right away.
Tomorrow they are 1 week old and a new individual photoshoot will take place! But until then enjoy the photos taken today!

Puppies are today 5 days old. I can't believe that it has almost been a week now since they were born?! Were did the days go?! Today has been a good day, all the puppies and Moa is doing just fine. It feels like all of us have now after the first hectic and distressed days have found a routine. Moa really shows that she has done this before, a very relaxed mum! The passed two night I haven't woken up as much either. Moa just goes up from the puppybox to drink water, if she needs to go out she will wake me up, otherwise she just goes back into the puppybox. 
Sometimes the puppies cry and wake me up when they get frustrated because they are too far away from the milkbar and needs some assistance.
Yaya has now gotten to come close to the puppybox and meet her small little brothers and sisters. I love to see the respect she is showing Moa, so attentive to her signals and always making sure Moa is relaxed with her presence. 
Well, pictures from last night and today updated below! Enjoy!

Today the puppies are 4 days old. They are all doing very well and gaining a lot of weight. I think pretty much all of them will be over or well over 1 kg when they turn 1 week old on Thursday. 
Moa had mastitis for two days with high fever first day and still fever, but lower yesterday. Luckily today she is doing great again. 
Yesterday Moa's breeder Anna from kennel Hamnudden came to check the puppies for DS and other faults. I had already checked them once but it is nice to hear that they are clear from someone else. 
And she couldn't find any DS, kinked tails or any other faults, expext for Mr Blacks singlecrown. 
Wonderful! 
Our nights are becoming more and more peaceful, meaning I don't have to wake up so many times anymore. Happy about that of course!
Below are a video of the puppies feeding from the milkbar today and below it a bunch of new photos taken yesterday and today! Enjoy!

The puppies are today 2 days old. Everyone is doing great! They have all gained weight, and one has already passed 800 grams! 
Mr Orange has learnt to suckle and has no problems to find his way to the milkbar anymore. So no worries for anyone of them at this stage.
Moa has unfortunately had a fever today. It is normal with a higher temperature after a delivery, but it has been a bit to high today. 
But since she has been eating and drinking and seemed ok the vet thought it was ok for me to wait and not come in yet. I hope she is better tomorrow.
Below are some mixed photos of the precious little once taken last night and today! Enjoy!

As most of you know it was an eventful 34 hours for us while waiting for our E-litter to arrive. It all started Wednesday morning around 9.30 am when Moa' started to breath heavy, just as the bitches do when they are preparing for delivering puppies. 
During the day I controlled her temperature which had droppes to 36,9 C and stayed like that for a while. Eventually in the afternoon/evening the temperature raised to 37,2 C .
Around 18 pm Louise (who owns Thea from the C-litter) came to keep me company. And our long wait begun! Around 00.20 am on she had her first contractions. So next fase had begun, and she had start to get the puppies lined up ready to meet the world!
But after this it took some time... I was never really worried, since she rested well between her contractions. But I an once I acctually dialed the number to the animalhospital but decided to wait. Because she just then at around 4 am started to have stronger and more contractions, and I felt like now we had the first puppy acctually on the way.
At 04.32 am he was a born! A beautiful strong and dark male with a tiny white chestmark. His ridge looks like a singlecrown and is slightly short I think, so a wonderful pet boy weighing 620 g. He got the black collar.
At 04.48 am our second boy was born. The largest of them all weighing 645 g (still a 105 g smaller than Moa's overall largest puppy!). He had a wonderful dark colour, a correct ridge and no white. He got the blue collar.
Our third male was born at 05.43 am and him also with a great correct ridge and a small white chestmark. He weighed 625 g and got the green collar.

So at this point, three boys were born and I was starting to wonder where my girls were!
At 06.32 am I didn't have to wonder anymore, because then the first girl was born. A lovely correct girl who weighed 580 g with a small white chestmark. She got the red collar.
Louise had to leave after this girl to get to class. Thank you Louise for staying awake with me the whole night keeping us company!
At 07.00 am our second girl was born, her also with a correct ridge and a small white chestmark. She weighed 585 g and she got the pink collar.
Right after her came her third and final sister, at 07.08 am. Almost identical weight, at 588 g all three girls are very even. She also with a correct ridge and small white chestmark and she got the purple collar.

After this I waited... and waited...  I took her out, ran a little to help things along but still not enough happend. It is normal for her to take a few hours break, so in the beginning I wasn't worried, and Moa was so calm and doing good.
But at 10.42 am I went in to feel with my fingers and all I could feel was the tail. The backlegs was turned forward and not back as they are supposed to. I couldn't reach to get the legs back or to push the puppy back in. Half an hour later I felt again and it was in the same position, and I decided we needed help.
My dad came and picked me, Moa and the puppies up and we drove to Djursjukhuset Albano which is the closest animal hospital from me.
We got to wait for a while but eventually a vet came to assist us. They are more used to bitches not having or having small contractions. But this is not Moa's problem at all, she has great contractions, so in this case it was only the puppy coming in a bad position that caused her not to be able to push it out herself.
The vet went in her vagina with almost her whole hand and during contractions and Moa's painful cries she managed to get one of the backlegs pointing backwards! First success. Moa got to rest, eat and drink for a while before trying a second time, to get the second back also.
So after about 30 min we tried again. And to my great relief the vet got a hold of the second leg aswell, and with Moa's good contraction out he came! 
It was absolutely horrible to hear Moa cry like that, is broke my heart and I couldn't hold back my tears. She was so brave, giving her best pushes and knowing the vet helped her and didn't want to hurt her.
It was about 13.50 pm that he was finally born, a showquality male, acctually the smallest of the males, but about the same size as the girls. (I wasn't able to weigh him until today, and he now weighs 542 g). 
He didn't suckle well at all yesterday and was crying a lot last night. The next few days will show if he is ok or not after his long trip out into this world!
I cried a few tears of joy this morning when I have been able to get him to suckle a couple of times. I had previusly "milked" Moa into a syringe and fed him with that. But it is not great since he needs to suckle and swallow by himself. So keep your fingers crossed for this boy!
At 15.10 pm our number eight was born, a handsome male with correct ridge and a small white chestmark. Him also weighed for the first time today, weighing 630 g so about the size as the other males.
Moa seemed very calm after this and we wondered if she was finished. So we took and X-ray and it showed that she still had one more puppy left to deliver. 
I decided to stay at the animalhospital until he came out, to make sure everything was fine before going home. And I am glad I did...
Because this boy didn't want to come out. I knew from the X-ray he had a long way to go before he would be ready, so me and the vet expected it to take a couple of hours. But after 2-3 hours had gone and he still wasn't out it was time to do something. I could feel his head when Moa pushed but he didn't come further. 
I took Moa outside, ran, walked up and down the stairs, gave her some food for energy and water. But still, he didn't come further out.
By now we had another vet to help us and unfortunately I had to wait for her help, because she was stuck in surgery with another emergancy patient. 
But when she finally came to help we had to do the same procedure, so Moa stood with her front legs a bit up on a table and the vet used her hand to eventually get a hold of the puppies head. With a few contractions, some more terrible cries from Moa we got him out right before 20.00 pm. He felt more stiff than the other puppies and feared the worst... But I gave him my all with rubbing trying to get him and his heart starting, but after the vet had listen to his heart twice and no heartbeat was found we gave up. He had died before coming out, which was probably the reason to why it took so long, since he wasn't stimulating contractions aswell as his body not being as adjustable as a living puppy.
After such a long day, night and day it was a very very sad ending of this litters delivery. He was a nice correct boy, and I couldn't find any DS on him. (I haven't checked all the other puppies yet).
Moa got to care for him for a while, and you could tell she understood he was dead. It was amazing to see how she handled him compared to the other puppies. She took him in his mouth, licked him and pushed, like she tried to get his heart started. But when she realised he was dead she just took him in her mouth, laid down with him still in it, then laid him down next to her and just laid her own head just next to him. So sad to see... and more tears...
After saying our good byes to this precious boy we were finally on our way back home.

I want to thank my wonderful dad who kept us company, drove us and made sure that Dando and Yaya got to go out and be fed! I love you!

Once we got home Moa got settled in the puppybox with her 8 wonders. She was tired and after some food she slept and snored loudly. When I finally went to bed after about 36 hours awake my body was more than grateful! Not that we got a very peaceful sleep the first hours... Mr Orange screaming now and then, someone screaming because he didn't get enough food, or crying because they had wondered off away from mommy and siblings. But eventually they were all asleep together and I could get some kind of decent sleep aswell.

Below are the first pictures of the puppies taken during the day and evening yesterday. I will post individual photos of them all later on! Enjoy!

For you who are waiting to hear from me if one of these puppies will be yours, give me a few days! Since we got less girls than we hoped for I need to concider my options! Thank you for your patience!

Moa has been delivering puppies all morning! She started with the first puppy being born at 04.32 am. We now have three boys and three girls, all with ridge, on boy looks like he is singlecrown, the rest correct at this early stage!
She still has puppies left, so will update again later!

Moa is today on day 58 (counted from second AI) and this morning her behaviour has changed. She doesn't have much appetite, she has done number two more often than normal outside (which is normal before a delivery) and her breathing is heavier.
She goes into the puppybox and dogbeds to nest, scratching the blankets around, also normal and important behaviour.
Her normal temperature is around 37,5 C (37,4-37,8 C) and this morning her temperature has dropped to first 37,1 C and later to 36,9 C. 
This can go on for a while, with the temperature changing, the delivery will start when the temperature rises again. This has during her previous deliverys taken between 11-24 hours. So I don't expect any puppies until earliest tonight.
I will try to update here on the homepage as we go along, but probably more updates on Faebook.  So easiest to follow us there! (My name on Facebook is Karin Furst Kennel Kadamo).
Wish us good luck and keep your fingers crossed for Moa and the long night she has infront of her!

Today Moa is on day 56, just one more week or less to go! A normal pregnancy last 63 days, but anytime between day 59-65 is normal. So I am trying to get everything ready this week, so we are all ready for a delivery this weekend.
Since I can't leave the puppies alone when they are born, I am very depending on my family and friends to help out now and then. So filling my fridge, freezer and cupboards with food, doing all necessary errands, washing all the dogblankets, my clothes and so on!
Dando and Yaya is of course having it a little bit more boring now... Yesterday Yaya got to come with me for a couple of hours and do some peopletracking together with Moa's son Zimba (Kadamo Jack Daniels). She was so happy! So hopefully I will be able to get out with her and Dando and do it more often when someone else is watching Moa (and soon also the puppies).
Moa did get me very nervous today when it was all of a sudden wet on the floor next to hear where she was sleeping! I thought her water broke! But it must have been pee... a puppy kicking her blatter when she was relaxed and asleep.  Is not easy! Not much room left in her belly anymore!

Everyday now I can feel and sometimes also SEE the puppies move inside Moa's belly, Seems like they are extra lively in the evenings, so I am prepared for late night a couple of months now!
Tonight (on day 53) I was able to make a short video of Moa's belly where you can easily see the puppies moving around. It looks a bit creepy! Like aliens or worms moving!

Moa is today on day 52 in her pregnancy. The other day I put the puppybox together for her to start getting comfortable in. This week we have started to slow down our walks a bit, since she is now pretty heavy and only have 1 ½ weeks left.
She is still enjoying our walks, and she needs to go out often to pee. At home she sleeps a lot and saves energy for what is to come!
The puppies are really moving in her belly now, I love feeling them! I don't think Moa is enjoying them moving around as much as I do though. Her breathing is always a little bit heavier then... Pushing around in there!
I will try to get a video of her moving belly, so far it has been in the evenings mostly when it is to dark in the livingroom to get a good picture.

Today was the last time Moa is coming with me to work before the puppies are born. So I took the opportunity to take an X-ray of her belly to get an idea of how many puppies to expect.
On the picture below I have put little hearts on all the heads that I can see. The one in the middle I am not sure of. I can see atleast 8, but it could be 9 puppies.
She has gained 3,2 kg since last week!

Today we have gotten to day 49 of Moa's pregnancy! So just 2 weeks to go! Moa has given birth on aproximately day 62 her previous litters which this time is on Sunday 25th of November. So we will be ready that anything can happen from Friday 23rd (day 60) until Monday 26th (day 63). So depending on when her delivery starts we now have 2 weeks or less to go!
So excited!
This week I have started to feel the puppies move in her belly, they are now getting bigger and so is Moa. She has grown a lot this passed week, and she will grow even more this upcoming week! Her belly is 10 cm bigger than last week!
This week I will also get the puppybox ready for her so she has time to get comfortable in it. She usually is right away, so nice for her to "nest" a little bit. Pictures of that coming later this week!

We are now 6 weeks along and Moa is today on day 42 in her pregnancy. Some new photos and meassurements has been taken, I think she has defintely grown since last week, but not so much in centimetres.
Tomorrow I am working so will bring her along and put her on the scale and get a new weight on her. Interesting to see what has happend there. By the end of the pregnancy she has usually gained ~1 kg per puppy. So quite a lot of extra weight to carry around in the end!
She is still doing very well. Outdoors you can't tell a difference, she enjoys our walks and is not slowing down yet. Indoors I can tell that things are happening. She is sometimes a little bit uncomfortable when trying to find a good way to sleep. She is also making her bed more often, scratching around. She also needs to go outside a little bit more often, guess all those puppies in her belly is taking up a bit of room now and also kicking her blatter!
But, still three weeks to go!

My princess Moa is today on day 39 of her pregnancy! She is doing great, not showing any signs of thinking that growing belly is hard to carry around. 
She doesn't play much, but she really doesn't need to, the other dogs has eachother so they don't really try to get her started either.
On Monday she is on day 42, which means only 3 more weeks to go. On Thursday I will put her on the scale at work again, to see how much weight she has gained in the passed two weeks.
Some mixed photos from our walk today under News, and more pictures of Moa coming on Monday!