As a vet, I have performed quite a few caesareans.
I've never performed two on the same day.
"I'm just hoping that everything goes well."
Okay team, everyone ready?
Come on.
Come on. This one's gasping.
More and more and more puppies keep coming out.
"And I look out the window and I see how many people I've got,"
I think have I got enough?
Is anyone else got a spare set of hands?
There's going to be a few broken hearts out there if
"they don't get those little hearts beating."
"At Scott's Isleworth practice in the UK."
"Sonauz is bringing in very, very pregnant mum to be, Cardi. "
Hi Sonauz.
Good morning.
Oh, my word. Wow.
Oh, wow.
Look at the size of you, Mrs..
She just looks like a hippo.
Don't you! Look at tummy!
"Oh, she's absolutely piled full of babies, isn't she?"
Do you think she's going to make a good mom, then?
I think she will do, yeah.
She's really good with the kids.
"Scott is doing important last minute checks"
"to make sure everything is okay for Cardi's caesarean birth."
In this picture, there's one there,
"and then there's one there, and then there's one there."
"18 month old French bulldog Cardi is a first time mother."
She's such a good girl.
There's another heartbeat there.
"Cardi, she looks absolutely gigantic and she is stuffed full of puppies."
"And the unfortunate thing when it comes"
to French bulldogs is they struggle
to give birth naturally.
To be able to pass all these puppies,
and there is so many,
there's got to be eight, nine, ten.
How are you feeling about the risks
"involved with the actual ceasarean itself?"
I'm feeling nervous now for her.
"I'm just hoping that everything goes well for and the puppies."
Her puppies are actually looking very healthy.
"Their heart's are beating really nicely."
"The ultrasound and blood tests have given Cardi"
the all clear for the big surgery.
Thank you.
Hi there.
"Hi. Oh, look, it's a pregnant ladies conference."
"Suddenly, Scott's day is about to get a whole lot busier."
Look at that.
Two expectant mums.
With not one, but two heavily pregnant dogs
ready to deliver their pups at any moment.
All right, bye. See ya.
Right, Sharna.
Let's go.
"Sharna has just arrived with her three year old English bulldog Kelly,"
"who's also about to give birth at any minute."
Hello baby. Hello, how are you?
As a vet, I have performed quite a few caesareans, but
I've never performed two on the same day.
And being that both the mums are friends, they just thought, you know,
"we'll all have this moment of puppy pandemonium together."
Do you wanna see your babies? Yes.
Thank you.
She's a nice girl, isn't she?
We have been anxious and nervous.
"It's both our first experience having a litter of pups."
All right, my angel.
Unlike Cardi,
"Kelly has had a tough time with her pregnancy."
"I'd just love for us both to see a heartbeat."
"Kelly has had quite the checkered pregnancy. During the course of it,"
"she's had an infection and on ultrasounds"
we've seen areas that look like puppies but don't have a heartbeat.
"So there's a number of things for Kelly,"
"for me, and for Sharna to be worried about."
It's no one's fault. It's you know,
sometimes, unfortunately, pregnancies end in heartbreak.
And there may be an element of that
with you guys.
Hi.
Big day.
In Isleworth, Scott is about to perform back to back
"caesarean deliveries for Sharna's English bulldog, Kelly"
and her friend Sonauz's French bulldog, Cardi.
Good morning. Hi.
Today is kind of a huge day.
I am feeling a little bit nervous.
It's a lot of lives to manage.
It's a lot of people to manage.
It's going to be crazy.
There's going to be puppies
"flying in all different directions, and I'm not sure of the outcome."
"She looks like a very exhausted, pregnant mum."
She can't breathe.
"The heavily pregnant Cardi will be the first to give birth."
Scott's concerned she's carrying a huge litter for such a small dog.
The adrenaline pumping. Everyone feels it.
It's a big operation as far as Cardi's concerned, but it's exciting.
We just hope it all goes well.
"The first cut is always the tricky one because you've got babies right"
underneath, so a millimeter will mean
perfect incision or cutting a puppy.
"Performing a caesarean is a big thing."
It's putting a dog that's already massively
pregnant under anesthetic.
"It means that the puppies are also under anesthetic."
Nothing about this is natural.
Okay team, everyone ready?
Okay there's one.
Okay. Go for it.
As the puppies start arriving,
"Scott's support staff swings into action."
Come on.
This one's gasping.
"It's crucial to get each puppy breathing before it's too late. "
Two.
"As soon as I open Cardi up, I'm like, wow,"
there is a lot of puppies in here.
She is jammed full.
"And I look out the window and I see how many people I've got,"
I think, have I got enough?
"Has anyone else got a spare set of hands?"
We've got three out so far.
I'm yet to hear any cute puppy noises,
so that's never good.
Go for it. That's it. That's four.
Okay.
I've got another one. Sorry, guys.
"My team working on all these puppies."
I'm just not hearing them crying.
I really want to get stuck in
"and trying to rescue and save as many of them as I can."
"But I do need to focus my attention on Cardi."
So, I'm really torn at the moment.
Come on. Just keep rubbing it.
Yay, I like that noise.
I think we're at eight.
"And the fact that we've got seven support staff"
"means that we've run out of hands,"
"because some of them have taken a long time to recover."
So I normally wouldn't recover puppies, but needs must.
So thankfully, Cardi's doing really well under anesthetic.
"I keep pulling out puppies and I see everyone working on their puppies,"
but more and more and more puppies keep coming out.
"I'm going to have to start getting the guys"
"running out in the street and getting passers by,"
â€œCome and help us!â€
We've got two in here as well.
So it's ten now.
It's ten now?
"As Scott and the team fight to save Cardi's puppies,"
"her owner's Sonauz and daughter Arieyah are anxiously waiting"
"for word of their beloved family, pet and her offspring."
So the kids are looking forward to
"seeing the puppies and seeing them grow."
So we are excited, both to see the puppies and just see Cardi
come back to her usual lively self.
Any improvement on four?
No.
"But several pups are still not breathing."
"So the team is using ultrasound in the faint"
hope of detecting a heartbeat.
"And thereâ€™s four which are doing well."
That's one which is still occasionally gasping, but the other,
"I think six, probably aren't going to make it unfortunately."
"Right now, there's four puppies that are breathing,"
which is great, but there's many more that aren't.
I know the team are doing their very best and working really hard,
but there's going to be a few broken hearts out there if
they don't get those little hearts beating.
Come on.
Just rubbing it.
We've even got our receptionist, Will, working on all these puppies
because there's just too many to handle.
"Scott has delivered the last of Cardi's eleven puppies."
So my oneâ€™s come out completely blue.
So far, only five are alive and well.
Desperate to revive the others,
"Scott is using mouth to mouth to try to get the tiny newborns to breathe."
"I don't accept no for an answer very often."
So I want to try and get my hands on them
and try and work on them myself
"for as long as I possibly can to give them the chance of life."
Heâ€™s gasping. You need to make sure heâ€™s breathing.
"But really, after half an hour, maybe..."
if you're not having a breathing puppy, you probably won't get one.
Well, we're just going to call it there guys. No one did anything wrong.
You all did your best.
Just our best wasn't good enough on the day. So...
Yeah.
It's just, it's very sad.
Out of a massive litter,
"little Cardi has safely delivered five healthy puppies."
Come on, my angel. Here we go.
Good girl.
Come on, then.
That's it.
Okay. Through you go, oh baby.
Come on.
It's sleepy time for new mom Cardi, but no rest for Scott,
"with caesarean number two, this time for English Bulldog, Kelly."
So, yeah, that's a pretty mammoth task that we've all been through,
"but now we just need to suck it up and keep going."
"We've got another pregnant mum that needs help."
"So yeah, we're going to have to go again"
"and hope potentially for a better outcome."
An earlier, ultrasound had Scott worried when he had trouble
detecting any heartbeats from Kelly's puppies.
Okay, Kelly.
Here we go.
Happy, positive vibes.
I think Kelly is maybe
"like four puppies, which is much better."
"Having just less puppies means that each one's"
"getting more nutrition, so we're just more likely to survive."
But some of her puppies haven't got the sharpest of heartbeats, so.
As Scott begins surgery,
Kelly's owner, Sharna and her son, Kyron are eagerly
"waiting for news of their adored three year old."
I think Kelly's having 4 to 5 puppies.
"My youngest son is very, very excited"
"and can't wait for the puppies to come."
He's adamant that we're having them all.
I've told him we need to save up and get a bigger house first.
Woah.
Suddenly, something no one expected.
"So it looks like it's just one mammoth puppy."
Kelly, she's had a very different pregnancy to Cardi.
"She has this whopper of a puppy and then some strange"
"other bits of fleshy tissue within the uterus,"
"which would suggest that this guy did have siblings,"
but unfortunately they didn't make it through to full term.
Imagine just waking up and then someone doing that to you.
To everyone's relief,
"Kelly's one very big puppy is doing well."
"Yes, so at the moment, he's looking good."
"He's he's nice and pink. He's moving."
"He shouting at me to stop rubbing him."
So all good signs so far.
He really is incredible.
So you know what?
"Kelly might only have one son, but he is a stunner."
It's bittersweet today,
"because, you know, we know we've lost,"
a lot of Cardiâ€™s puppies.
But thankfully, she has still got puppies to look after and love.
"And Kelly has her one puppy safe and intact."
"So, you know, as a team, I'm very proud of what everyone's done."
And it's a hard day,
but we've all got through it and
we've got some happy, healthy puppy lives to look forward to.
Makes it all worth it.
If you put them in there.
"Hey baby! Do you want to see mummy? Let's go."
After a grueling caesarean birth,
French Bulldog, Cardi is about to introduce her
new family of five to her human mum, Sonauz,
and her daughter, Arieyah.
Are you excited?
Hello!
All right, do you want to come and meet her baby?
Yes? You little cutie.
"Come on. Let's go see them, shall we?"
"So we've got how many pups? We've got five puppies here."
"Five. And they're nearly as cute as you."
I'm not sure exactly as cute. But nearly as cute.
We've got a good result of five lovely, happy puppies.
Yeah. Thank you so much.
Thank you.
What do you say?
Thank you.
You're welcome, my gorgeous girl.
Delivering the news to Sonauz that Cardi had 11 puppies,
but only five of them made it,
"is a tough conversation to have, but at the end of the day,"
our focus needs to be on the living.
"We need to make sure that these puppies make it"
and of course make sure that mum, Cardi, makes it too.
Thanks. Bye.
As Sonauz leaves,
"with five new arrivals, Sharna and son, Kyron"
eagerly wait to greet Kelly's new baby boy.
"We're very excited to meet our puppy"
"and we want to see what he looks like"
so we can think of names, don't we?
Yeah.
And here's the puppy.
Thank you. Hello my little girl.
We are over the moon.
Very proud.
Here's your beautiful boy.
He's stunning.
Absolutely stunning.
He is exquisite.
I'm in love with his colouring.
"Oh wow. You are definitely mine. You're staying with me."
Oh, is that right?
Of course he is.
Heâ€™s the only one weâ€™ve got. Youâ€™re staying with me.
"It's so nice to introduce Sharna to Kelly's puppy."
It's such a beautiful moment.
"And although, yes, a bit of a shock that she only had one."
She's got one healthy puppy.
He's absolutely gorgeous.
Come this way, beautiful. I know.
Yes darling.
I am so exhausted.
It's the emotional exhaustion,
"which comes with the rollercoaster which is bringing life into the world."
I definitely need a good lie down.
And will I do two caesareans in the same day again?
Probably not.
Hey, guys.
Look who I've got.
It's a month since Kelly gave birth,
and Sharna has brought her new mum and baby Kenji
"to reunite with Scott and the team, who brought him into the world."
What a good job you've done.
Look at him.
Thank you guys for all your help
and support throughout this whole process.
You've been amazing.
Mum and son are both doing well,
"but like many new babies, Kenji is a handful."
"It's really nice to see him and Kelly playing together."
Now he's at the age where he's running around the house and biting
"her, bless her, and she's just trying to get away from him."
Yes, very excited. It's very nice.
There you go.
Congratulations. It's a boy!
Thanks, guys.
All right, bye beautiful boy.
See you soon.
Bye.