My bichon female Is due to have her babies , she keeps losing her plug bit by bit ,her temp goes up and down during the day . She started digging outside in the dirt I know she can't have them out side she has a whelping box and have a old duvet in there for her do u think I should remove this and put paper down instead ? She shows no sign of having her babies , she is huge I have been reading on here about everyone dog nesting and all that and mine dog don't , I follow her around like magnets , is there anything more I should be doing ?

Thanks for taking the time to read this any advice would be great

i would put down newspaper, lots of it! i also put puppy wee pads under the paper to help absorb all the wet.

Thankyou for the reply

i agree get the duvet out , i use training pads too , prefer them on top of newsaper, cleaner for the whelp. Not sure if Argos still sell them they were doing a great offer on them last year.

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Thanks I will do that

i also agree about the duvet, little ones can so easily get buried underneath and suffocate also if mum usually wears a collar then i would remove this as well if you are unsure as to mums safety/well being at all then please contact your vet for advise because at this stage there is a number of things that could go wrong but hopefully not

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how many days is she now?

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Duvet out paper in and sending my oldest daughter to get puppies pads as I don't want to leave her , I took off her collar last week , she is due on Thursday , she sleeps all the time but shows no sign of nesting , just took her temp and it's 37.05 at the mo

Just check temp again and it come down to 37.03 from 37.05 , she seems really quite today not moving around so much at the mo she lying in her other smaller bed . Could she be going into labour ??

sounds quite likely the first stage can last for a number of hours

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