Recent Content by motherfaerie

His eyes are definitely pink, they look more like a redish purple color actually, which is how my husbands eyes are. He seems like he can see okay because when I picked him up to check and make sure I wasn't seeing things as soon as I got him at eye level he hissed at me. Lol. Also, I don't...

I tried to post a picture and the websites said it was holding it for moderation since I'm new so hopefully they'll release it soon. :) do you think normal room lighting is okay dfor it's brand new eyeballs? We have pretty dim lighting anyways because of my husband, I just don't know if a new...

Couldn't get an good picture of his eyes because he kept turning away from the camera. :)

Hello friendly cat people. I posted here a couple of weeks ago in regards to my cat Minerva giving birth to a single kitten and not living up to her namesake by being totally dumbfounded as to how to care for it. After you all gave me excellent advise I bottle fed the kitten for about 48 hours...

We got a latch! I managed to pet her down and get her to lay still and started trying to guide him on to the nipple. He wasn't into it at first but suddenly he opened up wide and just went to town. He had a poo sometime between the last formula feed and when he latched, too, so that's good. I...

This is incredibly ironic to me because I have a certification in lactation consultancy and I've successfully breastfed three babies no problem and I cant get a kitten to nurse! Like its not funny, but I feel like its universal karma or something. Thank you for all the advice, everyone. :)...

Okay I made the rice pack and I got around another mL of formula in him. I'm having trouble getting him to open his mouth and keeping him flat at the same time, so I'm not sure how much actually went in his mouth but he seemed livelier. She really did not like me trying to feed him and kept...

Ill see if I have some rice. She was at the movies and said she'd be over as soon as the film ended. That was about an hour and a half ago so hopefully she'll be here soon. (Sorry for typos trying to do this with squirming baby in y my lap)

He doesn't seem like he's shivering, and she does cuddle with him, but she gets distracted. I Know he's at risk for being too cold without litter mates. :(

I'm sending the milk replacer with her. I'll tell her what you said, I hope she listens. I really hate having to trust somebody else to do this, but I have a newborn baby and I can barely manage feeding him every two hours. Earlier while I was trying to feed the kitten he woke up and was...

I think you are right about him being too weak to eat. I managed to get maybe half a teaspoon of milk replacer into him, maybe less, and then I let him rest for about an hour. I expressed a tiny bead if milk onto her nipple and tried to direct him to it again and he seemed interested in eating...