The Puppies are Here! The Puppies are Here!

Tally started hard labor at about 9:15 and Aaron was home alone with the girls while I was out delivering flyers. He called me about five times but my phone was in the car. He called his brother and Mark came over to watch Tally while Aaron drove around the neighborhood trying to find me. I headed home and he was following me. I pulled into the driveway and he said that her labor had started. I wasn't expecting her to go into hard labor for another two hours.
Well, she pushed and out came the water sack and about three others. By 11:10 p.m. she pushed a placenta out but no baby. We called two different vets. One said that it was normal and that it could take up to 12 hours to get a baby out. We didn't feel comfortable with that so we called another vet (Dr. Pew) and he said that he had never heard of that before. We were so confused. We didn't know what to do. So we waited for another four hours because that is what the vet that was near to us told us to do and still no puppies. We called Dr. Pew and he said to take her outside and to walk her around, sometimes that enduces labor. Well, nothing happened so Aaron took her into the vet clinic that was close to us at 2 a.m. They took an x-ray and gave her a shot of oxytocin to enduce labor. We were told she might have a puppy in the car on the way home or she might push a puppy out 40 minutes later. They told us to wait another four hours. Well no puppies four hours later. So at 6 a.m. I woke Aaron up and said to call the vet clinic again. The clinic gave us another number for another clinic that was also close so Aaron took her there.
Well, at 9:30 a.m. Tally had a c-section after another attempt of oxytocin with no puppies. We decided to have her spayed so that she did not have to go through this again. She was a trooper and was very diligent at pushing. Come to find out the puppy was breech and was dead. That is why she couldn't push it out. We are sad that we lost one but we cannot explain the joy we have that we have five healthy puppies. Three girls and two boys. They are all doing well and all weighed about a pound and a half. The girls are pink, yellow, and light blue. The two boys are black and red (looks orange in the picture). There are four fawn and one brindle. The one brindle is a boy. The tech.'s were not totally for sure about the colors because they change as they get older.
Yea, we have puppies. The vet said that Tally has to stay over night and that if everything goes well we can take her and the puppies home tomorrow!