My Yorkie just whelped a litter and I had a couple puppies with (fading puppy syndrome) and my vet advised to try this method. I declined but I'm wondering if that would have worked? There was some type of Sepsis that they devloped and I didn't have any antibiotics on hand and the vet made me take the pups to the office to get it. The result of that was exposing them to hypathermia twice from coming to and from my vehicle. I was very frusterated and now have a new vet that won't put me in that type of perdicament know. But next time, I will definetly have antibiotics just in case!