When do puppies start eating and what do they eat? Puppies can generally start to lap other liquids besides mother's milk at around 4 weeks of age. You can offer them a small amount of water in a flat pan to help get them usâ¦ed to the idea of a going somewhere else for nourishment.
Pregnancy Week by Week. By understanding what happens in your pregnancy week by week, you are taking a proactive role in the healthcare of not just yourself, but your baby as well. Tracking your pregnancy will also help you know what to expect, from changes in your body to the progression of your baby's development.
Most babies are born around the 40th week of pregnancy. When a pregnancy continues past the 42d week, the placenta, which supplies the fetus with oxygen and nutrients, ages and becomes less efficient. ''The baby can have problems with its oxygen or food supply,'' Dr. Witter said. ''It may lose weight in utero and there may be fetal distress in labor.