Good luck to you and little smokie. i hope everything turns out ok! 

Oh my gosh thats AWFUL....and it also sounds like megacolon?!  Was that mentioned?  this is the perfect age for it.

this post  needs  MORE attention....can u change the title to 6 week baby with lump in stomach please advise?  maybe more people will take notice and read  it.   To me this sounds like megacolon. Is she going pooh?

The doctor was not her usual vet. He probably didn't know about megacolon. I did some research on this before I left for town. Some of the symptoms didn't fit (can't remember which, now).

With this Laxatone, alternated with fruit, her mass seems to be reducing "somewhat". It has only been a few hours. She *IS* pooping, but sometimes while I am holding her (which every hour on the hour), she appears to be having problems passing them. So I have been "helping" her with a little gentle pressure. This is going to be a L-O-N-G night!!

We will know more tomorrow morning after 24 hours has passed.

It is interesting that as evening is coming on and it is time for the ratties to get up and play, they are being very gentle with her. They are frisking around with each other, but my popcorny Smokie is still being very lethargic. Both Rosie and Boo go up and check on her once in a while and will sleep with her to help keep her warm. Rosie "went with her" to the vet to be there for her and with her on the trip. That was so nice of Rosie to offer.

I just wanted to add get well wishes and good luck. Thinking of you both.

It has been 24 hours since I notice the lump (I would rather call it a mass).

? The offending slippers and lamb fleece has been removed from the cage.
? Every 2 hours (even hours) she was given a drop of Laxatone (designed for cat hairballs). Then on odd hours she got as much peach as she would eat.
? With each session, her abdomen was massaged gently toward the decending colon and her rectum was massaged until I was able to "extract" a minimum of 2-3 HUGE raisins at each sitting. BTW, she was not happy about it, but was very "cooperative".
? Examining each massive raising revealed huge amounts of fleece running through it.

? Her lump/mass has gotten smaller and easier to feel the edges across the transverse colon. She will continue to get Laxatone and fruit throughout the day along with hourly massages.

Now for what everyone is waiting for. SHE IS STARTING TO BE HER NORMAL POPCORNY SELF AGAIN. Rather than hiding in a corner, she is right in the play frey and bouncing around the cage and on the bed. She is getting harder to handle when given her meds and massages. This means, to me, that she is not in the distress and pain that she was in yesterday. It might be MegaColon that she has/had, but it was caused by ingesting something that she should not have been chewing on.

I am 100% sure that the prayers you all said last night helped. They were in place to help me get up as often as I did and give me the energy and encouragement to take care of her. Your prayers helped her with her healing process. We are not out of the woods yet, but I felt it important to let all of you know and say  THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU  for all the advice, for all the caring, for all the prayers.

 

Yay!  I'm so glad to hear she's doing better.  I was worried about your baby!

These were "Daddy's" old slippers. I am sure that they smelled like his feet. When I got up yesterday morning, she was coming out of the slipper and there was fleece (real lamb fleece) all over the cage floor. There had to be something in there that encouraged this behavior. It is not there any longer.

We are still doing the med and massage routine until there is no more slippers in her belly.

Thanks, guys and ladies, for all the well wishes. Even though I have much work to do today, I am going to take a well deserved nap.

I just went an posted a good luck message in your first post and then saw this  .  Glad your baby is doing better 

Oh what a naughty little girl, eating daddy's slippers like that! Live and learn I suppose, I sure hope she doesn't do that again! That must have given you quite a scare. I'm so glad she's doing better though.

May I suggest giving Smokie pineapple juice. An enzyme in pineapple juice helps to dissolve fabric materials in the gut. This worked when a ratlister's rat ate carpet material.

I'm THRILLED to hear that the fleece has made its way out.  Would be so sad to lose a little 6 wk old.  You're a wonderful person for taking such great care of the little one. kudos to you, and  to the little one.