{"id":3806,"date":"2020-10-23T13:07:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2020-10-23T13:09:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T17:09:04","slug":"omg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=3806","title":{"rendered":"OMG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So after a sleepless night after Alice decided to nest a little bit and then be a bit restless (likely because she is getting pretty large and uncomfortable), I drew more blood this morning, I sent half to IDEXX and drove half to my repro vet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just off the phone with my repro vet and she&#8217;s back up to 10.4 ng\/mL on their in-house machine. She talked me down: this is not a high risk pregnancy, Zhora would have held her last litter even though we did decide to supplement, she only needs to stay above 3 to hold the pregnancy and we only need to supplement if she is below 5 with more than a week to go, this is the problem once we know a bit and start testing, it&#8217;s normal for progesterone to fluctuate as we get towards the end etc. And Renee the tech there also spoke to me earlier and helped me calm down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PXL_20201023_164406261-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3807\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PXL_20201023_164406261-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PXL_20201023_164406261-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PXL_20201023_164406261-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PXL_20201023_164406261-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PXL_20201023_164406261-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><figcaption>She has a puppy bulge on her left side!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>My overall anxiety level is so much higher right now and I&#8217;m rarely able to be 100% rational about my own dogs at the best of times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PXL_20201023_164456704.MP_-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3808\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PXL_20201023_164456704.MP_-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PXL_20201023_164456704.MP_-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PXL_20201023_164456704.MP_-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PXL_20201023_164456704.MP_-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PXL_20201023_164456704.MP_-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption>Svelte mama Zhora in front, podge Alice in back.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>She&#8217;s gained a bit more weight than I might ideally like (she was 27 pounds last Friday, which is  pounds over her fighting weight, and she was 28.6 today), but as long as she doesn&#8217;t get swollen feet\/legs or a swollen vulva (which could be a sign of maternal hydrops), it&#8217;s fine. Doc recommend retest next Friday (unless she starts acting weird) but I will do Wednesday since that&#8217;s when we need to draw for her nomograph anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now all I need is a good night&#8217;s sleep, a peaceful rest of her pregnancy, an easy whelping, and the current administration to be voted out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PXL_20201023_170046391-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3809\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PXL_20201023_170046391-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PXL_20201023_170046391-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PXL_20201023_170046391-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PXL_20201023_170046391-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PXL_20201023_170046391-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><figcaption>ALL the foods please!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after a sleepless night after Alice decided to nest a little bit and then be a bit restless (likely because she is getting pretty large and uncomfortable), I drew more blood this morning, I sent half to IDEXX and drove half to my repro vet. Just off the phone with my repro vet and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,48,76,62,51,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alice","category-breeding","category-d-litter","category-dogs","category-puppies-dogs","category-vallhunds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3812,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions\/3812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}