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Pregnant dog throwing up, discharge: Is she sick or in labor?

Updated on September 23, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Dachshund (Miniature Smooth Haired) | Female | unspayed | 2 years and 10 months old | 10 lbs

My dog is 52 days pregnant we believe and keeps throwing up but then will eat again. She has thrown up 5 times today. She looks skinnier than yesterday. We have felt the puppies moving around so they seem to be ok. Temp is 100.5 she had a temp of 98.9 3 days ago but has went back up. She also had stringy egg white looking stuff coming out yesterday what is that? And why does she keep throwing up? How close is she to labor?

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Dr. Melanie, BVSc MS

Answered By Dr. Melanie, BVSc MS

Veterinarian

Published on October 6, 2019

The discharge you are seeing may be her mucus plug, which can come out up to a week before labor. Roxy sounds quite sick if she is vomiting, and she could have an illness causing it. I think it's best you take her into a vet now to get checked out.
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