This is the baby girl on the left and this is mom and baby boy. 
Our English Bulldog had puppies on 9/2/2011. One tubby little boy and one tiny little girl.The little girl has cleft lip and palate with a 40% chance of normal livable life. We have to tube feed her and take care of her ourselves. SO when I say we I really mean now my sister in Law Jayde. She adopted the little girl from us because while I tried I was not able to feed this baby girl like she needed to be. Daniel had a couple days off and was able to feed her those days but I knew full well when he went back to work I would be responsible and knew I couldn't do it.Baby girl is doing well so far but she has a long road ahead of her. Now tubby tub the boy he is doing well Tiny likes to take care of him for the most part but I am still up with him and her every 2 hours morning noon and night. I have to say the 2-5 feedings are the worst because I would really enjoy some sleep right about now. We wanted to try the breeding thing and see how tough it was really. We'd heard alot about breeding bulldogs and lots of people said it was alot of work and not like normal breeds where the mother dog can take care of the babies with little to no assistance. Um well lets just say they were right ten fold. GEESSS. Taking care of bulldogs in general when they are older isn't bad but when they have puppies it's tough. It's worse then taking care of a baby for me. Tiny is a good mother and she really tries to do well but she is so big and fat it's hard for her to control her body so she tends to sit on the babies while she is getting ready to feed them, there are also times where she will get tired of taking care of them ei. feeding bathing you know the motherly duties and she'll just roll them off the blanket or pillow they are on or she'll just walk off like ok thats enough. We try to keep little man warm with heating pads and what not but when we lay him on the floor with mom, even if she is frying hot, she will steal their heat. I swear if it wasn't for the cuteness of the puppies I'm pretty sure I'd give up. But I will say hats off to the people who have made this a big thing for them, because taking care of them is not easy. We are now on day SIX and I've been told it's still tough til 4 weeks old but it is "suppose" to get easier when they open their eyes and can move alittle better.
We will keep every one posted on how well they mom and both babies are doing. And hopefully by 8 weeks we will have a little dude to give up for adoption and let him head to a new home.
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