Is my kitten pregnant?

I noticed toward the end of december that she had bumps UNDER her teets like they were developing. The vet said she may be pregnant or she may soon have her first heat cycle. OK, well now her teets are a lot pinker and bigger, she has no milk but the blood vessels on her tummy are palpable. It freaked me out at first because I thought she had a worm under her skin but I have read that the mammary gland vessels enlarge. SHe doesnt seem fat and pregnant until you look at her standing up, her tummy is slightly rounded but still not very big. I never saw her go into heat or do the tango with my old tom, he is gone now. I think she is pregnant. SHe is 7 mths old this month

If a cat is over 4 months old, unspayed, and has been outside unattended or otherwise around an intact male cat, the answer to "is she pregnant?" is always YES. Cats get pregnant very young, very easily, and very frequently. You should contact your vet to discuss your options. She is very young to give birth, so she may need a c-section.

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She has never been outside and my tom has been gone since Christmas, I noticed her teets looked different Dec 21 last year. I never saw her go into heat or see them get together. I will call the vet tomorrow.

You don't need to recognize that she's in heat for her to get pregnant (some cats have "silent heats",and they don't bleed like dogs do), and I doubt you watched them every second to actually see them mating(cats mate very quickly; they don't tie for a long time like dogs do). Any time an unspayed cat over 4 months old has been around an unneutered cat over 4 months old, you should assume she got pregnant. If you saw pinking back in December, she's probably very close to giving birth now. They usually start pinking up around 3 weeks along, and they're pregnant for 9 weeks. So she could go into labor any time now.

From those nipples she looks pregnant. Get your vet to have a look.

Yes, she's definatly pregnant- their nipples only get like that when they are.
Sometimes depending on the size of the litter, she won't show too much. By the sounds of it she should be due very soon.
Make her a nest to give birth in, and start feeding her kitten food.
If you want an exact due date, visit your vet.
Good luck, and be sure to have her spayed!

If she is only 7 months old and pregnant, please be aware of the very real possibility of a c-section $1,500+) or her not caring for the kittens. IMO I'd be doing a spay/abort now rather then put her thru trying to deliver kittens at too young of an age.

Some females get milk without getting pregnant. This is part of their development as they slowly mature. It has been my experience that an unspayed female cat 5 months or older can have kittens. It has also been my experience that the intact tomcats have to be 8 months old to be able to reproduce.

How many pounds is your cat? Altho a veterinarian should look her over to decide, they don't always guess it right. My veterinarian told me my big kitty girl was having a false kittens, and sure enough, 6 false kittens popped out of her, mewing for love and milk! My third veterinarian who I thought could get it right, told me my Georgina is pregnant, turned out to be full of fluid with uterine cramping that caused her no pain at all. Her uterus would tense on both sides and then soften all day for a week. She went on smiling and having a good time. This was not like my other female, Dolly, who had a similar problem and pain with her cramping.

And you can't always be sure how many kittens are inside her either. My cat, Prima, was as big as a full batch: she had only one fabulous daughter! The rest was fluid.

If your cat is really having kittens, it might be a happy surprise!

I think worrying about a c-section should be determined by a veterinarian, tho.

Jazzy the Cat: "6 False Kittens Are No Laughing Matter!"

Jazz - kittens are capable of reproducing as early as 4 months old (male and female). For a female, it would likely mean she would die trying to carry kittens and deliver them under 6 months old.

Males are also capable of siring kittens at 4-5 months old. I KNOW of a breeder of Siamese who's 5 month old kitten bred a female in heat and she produced kittens. This happened by in the 1980's too when males usually did not mature enough till 7 or 8 months old!

Best to get them done by 3-4 months old now to prevent early pregnancies.

I am only saying that half the time it is one to six kittens and the other half it could be fluid in the uterus. I have had one little dog and several cats that had milk and no pregnancy at all. My little dog got milk after being spayed -- that was some trick on her. I also had another cat get milk to help another with her kitten overload -- that was nice of her.

-- Jazzmin Flower --

"Never let the worms in life get you down; just walk away with your tail held high." --- Magnolia the Cat.