Hello! I am new to this forum, but wanted to reach out for some advice. After a family member cut down a tree in our backyard, we discovered two de-homed baby squirrels. Unable to reunite them with their mother, we are now raising a tiny little boy and girl. They appear to be between two or three weeks old. After rehydrating with pedialyte for a day, the boy seems to be doing pretty well. In transitioning from the pedialyte to formula, I have been feeding them watered down esbilac.
This is day 3, and today is the first day our little boy has been peeing and pooping in decent amounts. Our little girl seems to be having some troubles, though. She has been pooping in very small amounts, and today peed for the first time, although not as much as I would think she should be after the pedialyte and formula she has been receiving. It seems like she is bloated, although it looks like her right side is a little more swollen than her left side. Her genitalia is a little red, although that could be from all the stimulating I've been doing to try to get some results. I haven't noticed a scab that could be making it hard to pee, and I have tried to keep a close eye on both of them to make sure they aren't suckling on each other (I haven't seen them do that at all.)
I did just give her a little warm water abdomen soak, in which i massaged her poor tummy and her genitals/butt. After doing that for a bit and drying her off, she started to pass a lot of stool. Started off hard and black, but by the end of her session, it was beginning to get softer and lighter. Still not a golden/yellow, but definitely seems like she started to move some sort of blockage. The pic I have attached is after that little massage session. Next feeding, I'm thinking of skipping formula and just giving her a little bit of pedialyte, and then perhaps another warm massage. Based on this info and these pics, is there any advice on what might be happening and how I can help her?
Thank you so much!! (Also not sure how to rotate the pics so sorry that they're sideways!)