Delivery Question

Hmmm, I'm not usre...all of my mommies have, but I'm not sure if that's just their personalities...Zoe's been sleeping ALOT in the last 24 hours or so, so I have my fingers crossed! I hope she doesn't have them during the week, because I won't be home during the day Maybe she'll wait until Friday night...who knows?
This pic of another mom cat we had was taken a week before her babies actually came! She was HUGE, but she did end up with 8....
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Originally Posted by CuteKittenKat

Hmmm, I'm not usre...all of my mommies have, but I'm not sure if that's just their personalities...Zoe's been sleeping ALOT in the last 24 hours or so, so I have my fingers crossed! I hope she doesn't have them during the week, because I won't be home during the day

Maybe she'll wait until Friday night...who knows?
This pic of another mom cat we had was taken a week before her babies actually came! She was HUGE, but she did end up with 8....
http://i43.tinypic.com/2gxmf08.jpg

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Wow that cat is HUGE! I don't think Carly will end up with 8. I'm still going with 3 or 4.

Oh another question. Do you guys give your preggos catnip?

Originally Posted by Carlysmom

Wow that cat is HUGE! I don't think Carly will end up with 8. I'm still going with 3 or 4.

Oh another question. Do you guys give your preggos catnip?

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Haha, ya she was huge! I think Carly looks like she'll have 4 I've actually never given my cats catnip, but I've always wanted to...I always forget to buy it I'm pretty sure you can give it to pregnant cats though...

Carly loves catnip. I got catnip with one of those cardboard scratchers and you sprinkle it on there and she goes nuts for it. Her favorite toy is a catnip toy that I got that has feathers. I bought another catnip toy that she has no interest in but the feather one is her fav.

I'm thinking 5-6 kittens for Zoe.

Aww, that's so cute! I've never had more than five kittens in a litter(the kitty that I just showed who had 8 only had 3 survive ) so, I'm getting really excited!

I have had Baby Girl since she was like 5 weeks old and she has always been a loving cat. As she got older she didn't want as much attention but was still loving when she wanted it. She has been wanting more attention since getting pregnant. I don't think that catnip would hurt the babies. Baby Girl hasn't had any because I ran out before she got pregnant and I keep forgetting to get more.

I have started locking Baby Girl in her bedroom. She disappeared tonight and we had to hunt her down. We finally found her (when she came out). So I figure it's time to keep her locked up so I can find her. The room I have her in is actually my 17 year old daughters room (my daughter has been sleeping on the couch, I'm not sure why). Anyway it's where Baby Girl normally sleeps. I took the bed apart, put the box spring and mattress on the floor (covered with an old blanket), and put the bed frame in the garage. This way she can either have the babies in the nesting box I set up for her or on the bed. I'm sure she will go for the bed. But I know where she is and she's comfortable. My other animals can't get in there to bother her either. I put her a litter box, food and water in with her, too. Now we just get to wait. I will probably sleep in there with her until the kittens come. That way if she needs or wants me she can wake me up.

How are Zoe and Carly doing?

Carly is good. She's been going off too and hiding. I don't like it so next Wednesday I'm going to lock her up in her "room" so that she can get used to it before kittens are due.

Here is a belly picture from tonight. I had shaved her belly a bit and then missed the top two nipples because I was trying to do it quick and not stress her out. She seems to love having her belly shaved. She will lay on the tile floor on her belly. I guess the coolness feels good.

Carly really is getting big!! Zoe's been pretty good, just really tired... I don't think the poor girl even knows she's pregnant she's been staying in one room the whole time, but that's because we have other kitties, and we just want be safe incase she was sick or anything... And she could explode any time now!!! It's really nice to be able to compare with you two

Guess what she did last night? Or should I say early this morning? She was nest building under my bed. She was scratching the carpet under there but way deep under the bed by the wall and headboard. She also wouldn't come out when I called her until I got treats and when my husband tried pushing a rubermaid tote(the under the bed one) to block it off, she kept looking back at him like he was doing something that upset her. She has another thing coming if she thinks she is having kittens under there. I will have a hard time reaching them.

That's why I took my daughters bed apart and put the box spring and mattress on the floor. If she would have had her babies under that bed we would have had to take the bed apart to get to her.

I was thinking about shaving Baby Girls belly, because she has long fur there and you have to kind of dig through it to get to the nipples, I just don't think she'll let me near her with the clippers. LOL.

Carly is getting big. I need to take new pictures of Baby Girl. She is 57 days today (this is an estimate, we don't know when she was in heat much less bred). We are going by the fact that x-rays taken on April 1 didn't show any babies but the x-ray on April 12 showed 2 babies. They have to be 40 days in order for the babies to show.

This is Baby Girl today:

Aww they are so cute with their fat pregnant bellies! I can't wait to see all the new kittens.

still no babies from Zoe...It sounds like both of your Mommies are getting pretty close! Zoe hasn't really shown any signs yet, but some moms never do...I think she's getting URI She keeps sneezing up a storm.
Carly sounds like she's preparing very well I'm thinking of trimming Zoe's fur too...it's all long and curly at her belly
Anyway, here's a few pics I just took of her...
Big belly

Lying down

Zoe is definitely big. She has about 6 in there I think. I think pregnancy does something to their upper respiratory. Carly sneezes a lot too. I remember sneezing a lot and having a stuffy nose when I was pregnant. I think I might have felt a slight bump in the belly today but it's so hard to tell. I would feel better if I did finally feel it.

Ya, I think so too...many of my mommys had, but I think she's gotten worse in the last few days- if she's not improving tomorrow I may call the shelter and get some meds for her- I don't want to have the same thing with her that happened to Boots- she was sick and she had 8 babies and they got sick too, and 5 died, and she wouldn't care for them for a while...ugg, it was just a big mess

OH no! Yeah that would be bad. I guess if you aren't feeling well you can't be yourself and care for young. My guess would be self preservation first so it's a good idea to keep an eye on it.

I think Zoe is bigger than Carly. She has a couple more in her belly than Carly does I'm sure but I might be eating my words in a couple of weeks.

Yah, I thiknk that was just an extreme situation though
3-4 four is a good sized litter, so Carly should be comfertable with them. She still does seem pretty big in your pics though! I'm gonna guess Carly's gonna have them...next friday Any luck with feeing the babies?

I really don't think I have felt them unless the little thumps are kittens. I am too unsure to say positively yes this is kitten movement. Her nesting last night was for sure new. She did that all on her own and she was hiding from me which isn't like her at all. I guess if you think she will go next Friday, sometime this weekend I should lock her up in her "room." I don't want to upset her but I don't want to try to dig her and her kittens out from under a bed either. I lose her in the house sometimes and the other night she came out from under my daughter's bed. That would be a hard one to get her out of for sure.

My friend was a cat breeder and said that her nipples look saggy and that is a sign that they are filling with milk so soon she thinks. I think they like to trick us and make us worry.

Okay after posting I decided I would take the opportunity to really just relax and see if I could feel anything. She naps really well in the afternoon so I rested my hand on her belly and what I think I felt was waves or sort of like a snake like movement but it was very short and if I hadn't been looking for it, I would have missed it. I think I was looking at it like human pregnancy where you feel punches and kicks and taps instead of a cat pregnancy where there isn't a lot of room for stuff like that.

It's kind of a funny feeling, like something slippery sliding under the skin(lol, tongue twister ) It gets stronger pretty fast if you catch them at the right time