My husband and i have been trying for a baby for the last few months.
And well..lately i have been feeling less then chipper..and I am thinking that I could possibly (although unlikely) be pregnant.
My question is for those of you who have gone through it before...have you noticed changes in your dob when you got pregnant...and how was it adjusting to life with a dob and being prego. and moreso how did you deal with a big dog.
Logan tends to be rammy...and he tends to not know his own strength sometimes. I am usually the one walking him etc.and he loves to sucker punch me in the baby maker when hes wrestling around with me. I lately have not been rough housing with him only because i have been feeling like poo.
About 3 days ago i started to not feel very good. Bunch of weird little things going on with my body that has me a little worried.
I have been getting headaches..stomach cramping and tenderness in areas (wont get in to super detail)...but im def. not anywhere near my normal "time of the month"...and thats got me thinking... it could be possible..but it also is a little unlikely. At any rate...im going to turn 33 in September so we planned on next year...might be a little earlier now we will see.
I worry Logan wont be able to adjust when i do get pregnant if i am not already. He is such a mushy dog with super protectiveness toward me and my husband. He is a great dog but also has seperation anxiety which i think stems from being left so much when he was owned by his previous owner who boarded him quite frequently. He misses us terribly all the time. He is finally adjusting to our home and we keep him in the kitchen when we arent home because he was eating everything in sight due to his anxiety and also boredom.
Im curious as to what i might expect from him when or if this is now going to happen in the next 9 months. I will keep you all posted if i am indeed expecting.
Im giving it a few more days before taking a test just because i still feel its a bit too early to tell.
I always had Dobes when I was pregnant. However, mine knew better than to "sucker punch" anybody, anywhere, ever. I don't rough house with my dogs, the dogs rough house with each other, but know better than to rough house with people.
I didn't treat mine any differently when I was pregnant, nor when the baby came and I never had an issue.
Make sure he gets lots of exercise and keep his routine as close to normal as you can.
Guess it is a bit early for Congrats. Good luck and I hope all is well with you.
Logan does this weird thing where he like to jam his head in my lap to that will scratch him behind the ears...sometimes i get a dobie poke in the stomach as to say "HEY! pay attention to me!"
His rough housing is almost always as soon as we get home from work and he is like OMG thank god you are home. He will do zoomies in the living room and barrel in to my husband or I..whoever gets home first.
I tend to sit on the ground when we play...probably not a good idea but he bends in to the most awkward of positions...and when i lay down on the ground with him he will roll on to his back and thats usually when i get a paw in the face or stomach. Needless to say i havent been doing that the last few days.
The zoomies..i can tell are going to be a nightmare to make him stop doing. he runs around the living room like a lunatic.
Gonna be lurking this, since having a family isn't so far off in my distant future and by then Mila will be at least 5 or 6 years old before having to cope with a fur-less sibling...
Exercise and training.
He will need to be taught not to jump or tackle before you have little ones crawling/toddling around.
With small children in the house, we find better games to play than rough-housing on the floor.
His nose nudges and pokes shouldn't hurt you.
Hope you get good news!
We get the zoomies crazies also when we come home. However, a firm "Sit" takes care of that. They then wait for us to come over and pet/praise them. It really is just a matter of training and consistency.
I tell him to sit and calm down...and he looks like he is going to explode. LOL
like he can barely contain his excitment we are home. LOL
then he goes speeding off. Sooooo funny especially with the traction control issues on the wood floors.
If it was possible to get the scooby do sound effects, it would so be YouTube worthy. LOL:roflmao:
ive had him around a 2 year old, 6 yr old, 9 year old and 13 yearold. he seems to be really really good with kids and just wants to be chased all the time. I have not caught him jumping up on anyone. it seems like the only ones he does that with is us. And he does it when we get home mostly. this weekend i had him around a newborn-3 month old (not sure how old but was an infant) and was really sweet to him. kind of gazed at him with the awkward head tilt as to say....What Are This? LOL
Sniffed a little and sat and tilted his head back and forth when the baby started crying and sat at my feet gazing out like it was no biggy.
Luckily my small neice and nephew have been around since we aquired him on and off and his previous owner also had a newborn. So he is no stranger to kids. ive noticed from the time i got him, he actually has gotten a lot less rammy then he had been. But i also think as he is getting older he is getting out of the puppy stage...but he still loves to play.
He is going back to training this weekend actually.
Just to brush up.
I have noticed many changes in him lately which i can only think is because he is maturing and also used to us now and knows we are never leaving him. Even from a few of my posts early on...he is turning in to a completely different dog.
i am pretty happy with him. But i still think he knows he can get one over on me and thats me who has to change the way i handle him.
My husband is much more stern...but i am noticing now that he plays rougher with him...but will listen to my commands more...and is quicker to do them then when the hubby gives him a command.
Hiya! I have an almost-1 year old so it was not long ago I was in your shoes!
Best things I ever taught Delta pre-baby:
Off (no jumping up)
Leave It
Get Back (back up 2-3 steps)
Out (leave this room - I never thought I'd use this to send her out of a room without me, but my son finds her distracting enough he won't go to sleep if she's in the room so, poor dobergirl has to stay Out at bedtime. I go love on her after he's tucked in, though. )
Bed/Crate - go lay down on her bed/go to her crate.
If you don't have a good loose leash walk with him, work on that!! You don't want to have to deal him potentially lunging while you have a stroller.
Also, maybe get your hubby to get in the habit of walking him regularly if you are the one who does it now? I was often too exhausted first trimester to handle all Delta's exercise needs.
I'm due in about 3 weeks with our first, and Red really hasn't been any different at all toward me. I've heard of some people's dogs being more clingy or protective while they are pregnant, but Red just seems like the big clueless doofus he's always been.
I haven't really done anything differently with him for the past 9 months, though our walks have suffered since I was pregnant mainly through the winter and everytime I spent any amount of time outside in the cold, my nose would start bleeding and wouldn't stop. I've gotten a lot of nosebleeds while pregnant (never had them before). And the cold air just made it worse to the point it looked like a massacre while I was outside so I had to stop going for walks for awhile.
I'm a little worried about having a baby on the floor with Red because everytime someone is on the floor, he thinks its zoomie/play/rough house time - even though we really don't let him get rammy in the house. He knows "get on your bed", so I suspect we'll be using that a lot soon.
I know he would never hurt the baby on purpose, but he is such a lard who doesn't know his own body and strength that I wouldn't be surprised if he trod on the baby accidentally, so we are really going to have to watch.
Good luck and hope you find out the news you are looking for
Well, little update...took a test this weekend and got a negative. :-( I still feel as though i am however but i cant be sure because this would be my first pregnancy...but i definately do not feel my normal self..and the swelling, cramping and tenderness and sick icky feeling is not normal for me. I am thinking that its still too early to test and that i "may" be pregnant even though the test was negative. I still have a few weeks before i can actually confirm that i have indeed missed my monthly visitor and will be more sure if this test was just done too early. I figured what the hell...id rather know earlier then later even though i knew it was likely going to be negative. oh well... So i have another one waiting..I will give it a few more weeks. If that one is negative then at that point i will know that i am not and then i need to figure out wth is wrong with me and why i have been feeling this lousy.
At any rate...this got me thinking and i need to work with Logan on his non stop barking. I cant get it to stop and lately can not take it anymore. Every leaf that rolls across the yard, person walking past the house, noise,...he sounds off like an alarm. Its the loudest, deepest and scariest thing ever. He will literally make me jump with how unexpected and loud it is and out of nowhere. But its really becomming a pain to deal with. I had visitors and 7 am today he is going off like an alarm clock. Its the same thing EVERY SINGLE DAY at the same time EVERY SINGLE DAY!
I dont know how to stop this but he starts his retraining this weekend...i think im going to have to bring this up and get it under control if its even possible at this point because no amount of "Quiet!" will make him stop. He is very defiant of me lately.
Once he got used to living with us, the hardcore protective barking began. I worry that this will continue with a baby in the house...and i dont want to have to confine him to my basement family room of the house when the baby is sleeping but feel like no one is going to get any sleep if i dont. :-(
A pregnancy is the time to train, train, train, because it is so much easier to have a decently trained dog when you have a small baby around. My favorite command is the "wait" command; it means "freeze where you are and don't move until I tell you "OK". It's not quite a stay command, because you use it no matter what position the dog is in--but it helps during those awkward times when the dog is somehow tangled up with the baby (baby crawls under dog's tummy, dog's leash is grabbed by baby, dog wants to jump out of car when you are wrestling with a fold-up stroller....the possibilities are endless).
The only problems I remember with my first dog and a baby were his tendency to hang out under the high chair during meals (actually, that sort of helped) and his desire to lie down BETWEEN the baby and me if we were hanging out on the floor. Poor puppy--it's hard being the first-born and having a new little one come along and supplant you. LOL
im trying to prepare now...either way within the next year if i am not pregnant now, we are trying and i know it will eventually happen so im trying to deal with him now rather then later with the issues like his barking. he does well with walking...and he listens to other commands but he wont stop barking with the quiet command. otherwise he is a super smart and protective boy and otherwise i am incredibly happy with him. I just worry that a change might throw him off....and the barking...well...yeah we need to work on that some more.
Only one pre-baby story to tell Xxkrazy4u, 31 years ago Mommy was pregnant and our first dober girl was almost 4 y/o.
At 7 months term...my wife had back pain (with legs folded up) while sleeping...babyies head was pushing on moms spine.
Only complication with Tanya, laying on the master bed - was that she learned to take all of moms leg room up
- because dad would just give her a little knee poke, in the ribs
So one week, mom could no longer sleep with the dober so I put her on the couch and ordered her to stay put.
45 minutes later, she jumps on our upstairs bed, and we only slightly heard her climb the stairs.
- she must of retracted her toe nails (like a cat), and walked up to the 2nd floor on tippy-toes...with barely a foot step sound
Needless to say, back to the couch Tanya went, and 2 months later when our only child was born, up on the bed practices resumed.
But she was deep down jealous, no longer being the baby of the family.
So she was still included in every day-to-day newborn activity.
When our sons diapers was being changed on the covered couch, dobie girl was on the other end.
She liked to nose him, with a tiny nose tip and get his dna smell..all good.
Good luck on your planning childhood.
And Logan is going to have to respect the mommy belly, no more "sucker punch me in the baby maker".
- you & hubby, use your mad voice, followed with a positive kissy-kissy...they learn quick enough
PS - posted before I read past post #1...sorry
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