We should be syringe feeding her more often to be honest but my daughter gets really upset when we have to hold her tightly to get her to take the syringe feed and refuses to do more than a few mls at a time. Because she's so wriggly I can't do it on my own, and my husband doesn't feel comfortable handling or feeding her. I'm finding it really difficult to be honest. .
Haven't spoken to vet since I posted but was planning on phoning her tomorrow.
Please do so! We can't see your piggy and cannot comment on the medical side/prognosis of it. Any decent vet you ask for their honest opinion will usually do so and explore the various aspects with you.
Unfortunately you have to be tough in a crisis. It is never a pretty thing when you try to wrestle for the life of a piggy. Unless you reach the individual dying weight, you can often get a piggy back from the brink, but it takes full commitment and determination to stabilise the weight and keep it there. Once you are doing this for a number of days then exhaustion and sleep deprivation will set in.
You need to feed at least 60 ml a day in order to stabilise the weight over several days and make it sustainable, even if you have to fight for every single milli-litre. It is extremely tough and not pretty at all. But there is unfortunately no easy way to win a battle for life or death.
There is to some extent a knack with it, but it is born out of practice and experience.