Last night was the first time in a week and a half I've managed to get more than 6 hours sleep ! Jess is doing such a good job as a Mum so we decided it was not needed to sleep beside her any more. Morag and I were sharing night time vigils but now we're confident that Jess has it all well under control :) The alarm is still set for 230am to get up to check everything is ok and let Jess out for a pee - only last 2 mornings she hasn't been interested in a 230am pee so we might give up on that as well !
Her appetite is back with a vigour - she seems keen to eat constantly ! Of course with her being a Labrador we've been well used to this behaviour ;) A lot of the literature around lactating mums (especially between weeks 2 and 4) suggest that the she should be fed as much as she wants - I'm not sure they wrote that with a Lab in mind ! According to the book of the book calorie schedule which I have pinned up on the notice board, weeks 2 and 4 require energy consumption around 3 to 3.5 times that of maintenance levels, which is basically what I'm giving Jess now. Unfortunately it's impossible to distinguish between hunger and greed - at 1.5 kg of meat a day she can't possibly be hungry tho :D
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