And it was a rough labor for her. I woke up and heard baby squeeks and went to see if Holly or Mrs. Snuggles had their babies, or both (both were expecting any day).

Holly had 10 babies out, and she was clearly having trouble delivering another one. I had no clue what to do, other than to monitor her every 15 minutes, and eventually the BIG baby passed, but still born. She went on to have another and it was also still born.

During her labor, she sort of laid across the already born babies and two more died, probably from suffocation.

I was prepared to pull Foxy's 3 week old babies from her and transfer the litter over to her, as the last thing on Holly's mind was nursing or mothering the ones already born.

After she passed the difficult one, she was eating and cleaning herself up and had the second still-born.

I continued to monitor her for another 1/2 hour and she started to mother the surviving 8 babies and they now have really nice milk bands and she's being very attentive to them.

I was beginning to think that blue hoodeds were bad luck for me, but after the morning scare, mom and babies are doing well! I suspect, they'll all be black hoodeds, as Caesar doesn't seem to have any other color gene in him but black, every litter has been black berkies or black hooded, no matter how the mom is colored.