The rest of Tuesday and Wednesday passed fairly uneventfully! We had a couple of “this is it….no it isn’t” moments, but by 9am yesterday morning it was obvious this really WAS it 😆

Fancy had the first at 11:05am and was all done by 1pm, so in the end all very civilised time wise! Just a shame about the two sleepless nights beforehand whilst she had us thinking she was going to have them and then didn’t 😉 Never one to do this by halves (from one extreme to the other!) we have FIVE babies! Three boys and two girls, all absolutely gorgeous and beautifully marked! <3 Two partially white ears but I think they’ll grow out….just hope they all go from strength to strength now – 5 is a big litter for the breed, especially as it’s her first litter too! Though she’s being a fantastic mum so far. Almost too good actually, she’s so protective we’re only able to have the bare minimum to do with them, so not even 100% sure on colours yet! We definitely have 1 red sable girl and 1 red sable boy, two of the boys are black and white (though tri markings could come but no evidence yet) and the second girl I’m not totally sure about yet….initial impression was black and white but after she’d dried off I think she may be red sable. Colour odds for this litter were 50% black, 33% red sable and 17% tricolour so your guess is as good as mine!  I can’t believe it, I’ve waited going on two years for this litter and with the last pregnancy going wrong too it seems like a dream at the moment.

We had the scare of our lives midway through. She’d had four puppies and we’d been cleaning everything up and getting photos at the same time. Took photos of three of them when my card was full, so left the fourth for a minute whilst I emptied my card. A few minutes later Fancy started contracting, thought there was another puppy coming so took the other pups out of the way…..and could only find three!! There’s us looking frantically all over the box, even on the floor but pup is nowhere to be seen! We have to stop for a minute to deliver this puppy (which turned out to be afterbirth not a pup) when I see the hot water bottle (which we had already checked) moving….little sod had got himself in between the towel and the bottle! Biggest relief of my life 😆 Not looking good for him is it, that’s a very Phalene thing to do and he was only an hour old! (Physically he’s absolutely fine, though was a touch on the warm side initially 😆 )

They’re pretty good weights considering they weren’t due until Sunday at the earliest (and she was mated so late really almost Monday) and there are five of them – littlest one is the first girl at 3.5oz which isn’t terrible and biggest one is the other girl at 6oz. The boys are between 4.5oz and 5.5oz. Feeding well, the little girl keeps getting knocked off but that’s partly because Fancy teats are quite small at the moment so there isn’t a great deal to grab hold of! If you make sure she doesn’t get knocked off she’s sucking well, and I’m sure it won’t take them long to make poor Fancy’s teats more grippable 😆

Fingers crossed there’s a stunner in there for me, to follow in daddy’s pawprints! My only complaint is I really wanted Fancy to wait until today because I was hoping to have them in Puppy for the SoE Pap Club show next year and now they’ll be 12 months and 1 day 😆 but at least she’s had them before Saturday so now I don’t have to worry about potentially dashing back part way through the show (2hrs away) because she’s whelping! The question is….is the world ready for more Soleis? 😆