question about pregnant cat.

hello. i just have a quick question to see if anyone has any experience with this. i have a 3 year old dsh that bolted outside and came back home with a surprise. my husband and i meant to have her spayed years ago but living overseas, deployments and general army life and all that it entails had stalled the process for us. i took her to the vet about a week and a half ago and they did bloodwork and an ultrasound and said they could see at least one kitten very well, and it had a strong heartbeat. i had brought her in initially because she had some vaginal bleeding. they said she may be aborting them, but to just watch and wait. the bleeding had stopped and she was acting normally. about 2 days ago i noticed there was a little more bleeding, not much, but enough to notice. i brought her in for another ultrasound today and they said there are two kittens, their skeletons have developed, but they couldnt see any movements or heartbeats. the vet told me that it doesn't mean they arent viable, they just dont know. could it be possible for them to miss heartbeats at 7.5(ish) weeks? or should i prepare myself? they said that my cat is doing just fine. shes bright and alert. bloodwork and urinalyasis is good. im just real concerned. any advice would be wonderful. thank you!

im not her favorite person, and she's not real cuddly as a general rule anyway, so feeling her stomach for any extended period of time is tough. i suppose i could try though. just be wearing long sleeves. :p

thanks for all the advice everyone. to answer some of your questions..

-i asked them yesterday if i should schedule a csection with them, i had read somewhere that if they are stillborn, she may have a hard time delivering them, and i'd rather be safe than sorry. especially because i work 8 hrs a day and my husband is deployed in iraq, so shes alone for most of the day. the vet i had spoken to said that because she seems to be doing just fine, that he wants to see if she can do it on her own. which i suppose i understand, but if im at work when she delivers, i may not know shes in trouble until hours later and the closest emergency vet is another hour away. i have already called them and let them know about my situation though, and have their number and directions to their clinic in my car. my other concern is that even though she's 3 years old, she's a fairly small cat. only about 5.5-6 lbs full grown. so i'm concerned that her birth canal may not be big enough.

-i hadn't asked for a spay because she's only got about a week and a half left and i thought that they wouldn't do it when she's that far along. but believe me that if the kittens are alive in there, that when she's done weaning them, she's going to get spayed. i'm even adopting and neutering my neighbors cat when she's finally spayed as i suspect he's the tom, and they can't afford to keep him anymore.

-they told me to try to be optimistic about the kittens still being viable, especially because my cat seems to be acting fairly normally, but i have a hard time believeing that heartbeats and movement would be easy to miss at this stage of her pregnancy. especially with it being only 2 kittens. i will be a little devastated if they're stillborn, being such a cat lover, but my main concern is my queen. even if she's moody.

as i said, thanks for all the responses, and ill try to keep you updated as i learn whats going on. i'll probably take her back into the vet in about week for another sonogram if she doesn't deliver/abort them by then, to see if they are alive or not. if they aren't, i'll see what they can do about spaying her and removing the dead fetuses, as i don't want to put her in unnecessary danger.