It's only about 6 days til my little girlie (Gypsy) is due to have her first litter and I'm starting to get really nervous. I'm excited about it too but this is my second litter and things did'nt go to plan exactly last time. With my first litter (with my older girl (Pepsi)who is now nearly 10), I ended up having to hand rear 8 pups. Pepsi had 12 puppies, 2 still born, and two died with fading puppy. It was a very difficult few weeks to get all the pups through having fading puppy syndrome but we did end up with 8 lovely pups in the end. Granted this was about 4 years ago now but I am worried cos I know some of the difficulties that can happen. My mentor has said not to worry too much, as last time was a one off hopefully and fingers crossed things should go a lot more smoothly this time but oh God its such a worry is'nt it till they get here. I am hoping to keep a pup out of this litter to carry the lines on. Wish us luck!