{"id":450,"date":"2010-01-03T20:44:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T03:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=450"},"modified":"2010-01-03T20:46:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T03:46:07","slug":"attack-of-the-giant-nina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"Attack of the Giant Nina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She is huge and getting pretty uncomfortable.\u00c2\u00a0 Lying down now involves a lot of grunting and adjusting.\u00c2\u00a0 Eating involves a lot of me sitting on the floor hand-feeding tempting tidbits (today needed some crackers with peanut butter before she decided to eat her food), 6 times a day or so.\u00c2\u00a0 Going out in the snow to take care of business leaving tummy-prints is adorable, except she can hardly hunch now to poop.\u00c2\u00a0 I can easily feel them moving around in there now, and if the light is right, sometimes you can see them moving, like little sea monsters.\u00c2\u00a0 Jim is convinced they are chestbursters or facehuggers, he won&#8217;t feel them.\u00c2\u00a0 Today I ordered some supplies: a SnuggleSafe warmer, some CDs of thunderstorms and agility trials for early desensitization, a litterbox (I&#8217;m gonna give litter training a go with alfalfa pellets for litter, that way if the puppies eat some, it&#8217;s just alfalfa).\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow I will order a DeeLee suction catheter, a preemie nipple and a bulb syringe.\u00c2\u00a0 I will get feeding tubes and syringes from work.\u00c2\u00a0 I will start sleeping downstairs in the guest room (which will be the whelping room, just off the living room) this week.\u00c2\u00a0 I dewormed Nina with PPS today, because we are TWO WEEKS from her first due date (I wish I&#8217;d had more time for progesterone testing).\u00c2\u00a0 EEK!\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s getting exciting.<\/p>\n<p>I was just looking at agility pictures from last summer, and then I look at her big, pregnant, bulging self.\u00c2\u00a0 Bad cellphone pic because I am too lazy to go get my real camera:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_451\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/nina_jan_3_2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-451\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-451\" title=\"nina_jan_3_2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/nina_jan_3_2010-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Nina January 3, 2010\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/nina_jan_3_2010-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/nina_jan_3_2010.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nina January 3, 2010<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She is huge and getting pretty uncomfortable.\u00c2\u00a0 Lying down now involves a lot of grunting and adjusting.\u00c2\u00a0 Eating involves a lot of me sitting on the floor hand-feeding tempting tidbits (today needed some crackers with peanut butter before she decided to eat her food), 6 times a day or so.\u00c2\u00a0 Going out in the snow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,62,67,51,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-dogs","category-nina","category-puppies-dogs","category-vallhunds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","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=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}