Dolly puppies arrive!!!

Since the blog is more of a story place, I can tell more about my morning. I went to bed late with no real progress with Dolly, just acting about the same, panting, very uncomfortable but not acting in labor yet. I woke up in the middle of the night, nothing changed. When I woke up at 6 am (after 2 hrs from the last time I was awake) their was one dead puppy. I worked on her for 30 minutes as she did have some color in her still, but no go. When Mom arrived about 7 am, she said that it looked more like bruising then real pink, so our guess is that she was long gone. I left for school close to after that. We basically decided that Dolly, being miserable and not acting like she is pushing, was probably a candidate for a c-section. Mom gave her until 8:30 am when our vet opened. No progress, so off to the vets they went. I left school early and got to the vets just as they were making the decision on whether to do a c-section or not. The vet basically gave us two options, the first was wait a little longer, give her some drugs and try and see if she will start pushing normally, but most likely would result in c-section, or the second would be to just open her up now and get it done. We went for the second as Dolly being so miserable, we both felt that we had a risk of loosing more puppies if we waited much longer. As things were being prepared, we all cast a vote on how many puppies would arrive. One of the vet techs won with a total of 8 puppies born via c-section, the 1 dead, so total was 9. It was the first time I actually was there for the whole procedure and helped revive puppies, so it was definitely an experience. The breakdown, 2 blue merle boys, 1 black boy, 3 blue merle girls, 2 black girls. Dolly is doing great, seems to be a very good mother and all puppies are healthy! Even though I hate doing c-sections, I am glad we went this route and have live puppies.