Penny is on day 44 today which means we have less than three weeks to go. I paid her a visit today when I was nearby to get some new photos of her. Her belly is really starting to fill out and now she looks very pregnant even to an untrained eye. 
She was very happy about getting some yummy treats and attention before I had to say goodbye. Not long now until she moves in with us preparing for her puppies.

Penny has spend the last week here with us and her belly has really grown. Only four weeks left now and her belly will just get bigger every day!
She is doing well. I have noticed that she is not as interested in playing with my other dogs now as she has been before. She is also very hungry and is hoping for extra food or treats all the time, she knows she can melt people with those dark brown eyes!
Tomorrow she is going home again but only two more weeks until she moves in to get prepared for the delivery. 

Yesterday she was on day 30 of her pregnancy and I took some new photos. A full pregnancy for a dog is 63 days but it is not uncommon for them to give birth a few days earlier, so we are saying that we have now reached halftime.
Pennyis doing well. She did throw up a couple of times and did not fancy her breakfast the other day which is normal pregnancy signs. Now feeling better again and being very hungry! 
For the untrained eye it is not easy to see a belly growing yet but I can see a difference in her ribcage that is starting to fill out. For a first time mum it takes longer for the belly to drop down and it is not until after day 35 that I usually think it get more visual.
I have made a comparison below and then I think you can see the difference too.

Penny and Wilson will be parents! Today on day 24 we confirmed with ultrasound that Penny is pregnant. Wilsons frozen swimmers where strong and the timing for the insemination was great and it was successful.
I am so excited to see them all in the middle of May. Penny is doing well, very hungry which I can understand with all of those puppies growing in her belly. So far it does not really show on her more than her increased apetite.
In a few mor weeks that underline will look a lot different!

Video from the ultrasound can be seen here: 
https://youtube.com/shorts/KdaGm6Sx-MY?si=1ps0jkd58mA5rQKY

This weekend we got to borrow Penny to meet with potential puppybuyers. It is nice for her to spend some time here getting comfortable with our whole pack and us before she will move in to have her puppies.
Penny was inseminated 8 days ago, still way to early to see any signs on her but crossing our fingers it was successful. 
The weather got very nice in the afternoon so I took some new photos of her. She is such an easy dog to stack, so balanced. And a head with so much expression. 

So this morning Penny was on day 14 of her heat and I picked her up from her owners. I took her third bloodtest and drove to Uppsala and UDS. We met our vet Eva Axnér and got the test started while she did her examination of Penny. Since Penny has not had puppies before she needs to be cleared for insemination, to know she could have gone through a natural mating. And everything was fine and we got to go for a long walk in the sun waiting for the testresults to come back.
Her progesterone was today at their machine 39,1 nmol/L. Above 35 is good to go for AI. So we got to come back before lunch and she performed the AI. 
Penny did so well, of course thinking everything was a bit strange but standing still kindly on the table throughout it all. 
It was great to see that last doze of frozen semen from Wilson waking up getting all active on the screen above the microscope. Even though Wilson is no longer with us it was great seeing that something of him still was.
We now cross our fingers that we will have puppies in the middle of May. I will make an ultrasound in 3-4 weeks to hopefully confirm a pregnancy.

A video from the AI can be seen here: 
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m05ds8kQ4f4?si=Cr78vM24jjdI96zj

Thursday morning and our second bloodtest to check how much Pennys progesterone has rised. Her levels were already up to 33,4 nmol/L. This means she really followed the unofficial rule that the level double each day. Monday she had 4,2 nmol/L which means she should be around 8,4 on Tuesday, 16,8 on Wednesday and 33,6 on Thursday. So the result today was almost spot on. 
Todays result means that we are going to UDS tomorrow morning to do a third progesteronetest to run in their machine, a check by the vet and if everything checks out she will be inseminated.

Monday morning Penny was on day 10 of her heat and we took the first progesteronetest. It showed 4,2 nmol/L which was pretty much what I expected. It shows that her levels is starting to rise but she has not been ovulating yet. The insemination will be done after she has ovulated and that is what we are trying to catch with these tests.
The second test will be taken early Thursday morning and depending on what is shows we will make more plans for the weekend or next week.

Beautiful Penny started er heat on Friday the 28th of February. We will now wait a little while and thn start to take progesteronetest to check her levels to find out which day she will be ready for insemintation with Wilsons frozen semen.
Updates will come as we go along!
Some new photos of her taken when we met today!