xoniac
04-27-2015, 09:52 AM
Hi guys,
I have a 3-4 week old baby grey that's been with me for almost 4 days now. When I got her, she was 72 g (after pedialyte) and such a scrawny little thing.
Turns out, I did keep her on pedialyte a bit too long (left it mixed in with her food for two days instead of one), but we are now onto pure formula and I started adding 1/8 parts heavy whipping cream today.
She has gained so much energy and I have such a hard time keeping her still except when she's in her little heating pad bed or feeding. If I'm holding her or cleaning her, or in between syringes, she's just crawling all over the place! She eats like a champ - 3 to 4 mL every 3 hours, 6 times daily. I have her on puppy esbilac powder formula with probiotics mixed in a 1 powder:2 water ratio. I had been mixing in pedialyte, as I said, because she was very dehydrated but I have now stopped the pedialyte and after one day on full formula have added 1/8 cream to the mix. Heated to just about temperature and fed through a 3 cc syringe with a bottle nipple attaches. Formula is prepared the previous night with hot, not boiling water and left to refrigerate over night.
She is peeing tons of clear white pee at LEAST every other feeding but usually more like every feeding. Her poops have been gradually improving from a yellow mucous looking liquid to very soft golden brown to, today so far, one darker brown tiny formed piece.
She does make all sorts of odd noises, like any baby does, and at times I swear I hear a clicking in her chest that gets me all worried. As soon as I get worried, however, it just stops - not sure if she's in the beginning stages of some respiratory issue or if she's just making noise, I'm not sure.
Despite my best efforts and her steady improvement, she has not gained any weight (except immediately after a feeding). In fact, this morning I weighed her before feeding and she was down to 68g. Not sure if it's because i weighed her after a long night, but I try to weigh her every morning and every afternoon and it always seems to stay around 72g, until today. I know not to expect a lot of gain in so little time but i feel she should have gained SOMETHING by now, right?
Any help would be appreciated. I am a very paranoid, very over protective new squirrel mom and just want my little nameless baby to survive.
I have ordered some FV and new syringe/nipple sets from FV, but am waiting for them to contact me about payment. Please advise if this is necessary or not as well....
Here's a few pictures as well as my daily chart.
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I have a 3-4 week old baby grey that's been with me for almost 4 days now. When I got her, she was 72 g (after pedialyte) and such a scrawny little thing.
Turns out, I did keep her on pedialyte a bit too long (left it mixed in with her food for two days instead of one), but we are now onto pure formula and I started adding 1/8 parts heavy whipping cream today.
She has gained so much energy and I have such a hard time keeping her still except when she's in her little heating pad bed or feeding. If I'm holding her or cleaning her, or in between syringes, she's just crawling all over the place! She eats like a champ - 3 to 4 mL every 3 hours, 6 times daily. I have her on puppy esbilac powder formula with probiotics mixed in a 1 powder:2 water ratio. I had been mixing in pedialyte, as I said, because she was very dehydrated but I have now stopped the pedialyte and after one day on full formula have added 1/8 cream to the mix. Heated to just about temperature and fed through a 3 cc syringe with a bottle nipple attaches. Formula is prepared the previous night with hot, not boiling water and left to refrigerate over night.
She is peeing tons of clear white pee at LEAST every other feeding but usually more like every feeding. Her poops have been gradually improving from a yellow mucous looking liquid to very soft golden brown to, today so far, one darker brown tiny formed piece.
She does make all sorts of odd noises, like any baby does, and at times I swear I hear a clicking in her chest that gets me all worried. As soon as I get worried, however, it just stops - not sure if she's in the beginning stages of some respiratory issue or if she's just making noise, I'm not sure.
Despite my best efforts and her steady improvement, she has not gained any weight (except immediately after a feeding). In fact, this morning I weighed her before feeding and she was down to 68g. Not sure if it's because i weighed her after a long night, but I try to weigh her every morning and every afternoon and it always seems to stay around 72g, until today. I know not to expect a lot of gain in so little time but i feel she should have gained SOMETHING by now, right?
Any help would be appreciated. I am a very paranoid, very over protective new squirrel mom and just want my little nameless baby to survive.
I have ordered some FV and new syringe/nipple sets from FV, but am waiting for them to contact me about payment. Please advise if this is necessary or not as well....
Here's a few pictures as well as my daily chart.
256605256606
256603256604