New mother cat acting weird

So our cat recently had 6 kittens, she's young herself, a year old...

Normally she just constantly whines (not sure why) and wants lots of attention.

Latley however, she has been grabbing kittens from the box they're in, and bringing them to us at the end of the bed on the floor. The box is in the corner, so she goes to the box, grabs one, then brings it to the bed and lays down... first one just started feeding on our cat, the second time (which just happened now) it was our escape artist kitten, so it tried to roam a little bit.

Regardless, why is our cat bringing babies to the bed, and why is she whining constantly? 

Sounds like she's not happy with where her nest is and maybe she feels insecure without you as well.  Give her some alternative nests and see if that helps.

Are there any other animals in the house that might be upsetting her?

The father is in the house (and being very annoying) he's getting fixed in 2 weeks...hard to get appointments.

We have another cat, but she never sees him and she's always in the bedroom.

We've given her multiple options, but she would always take the babies away and go back to the corner. 

Also, she's been trying to move the newborn kittens under the dresser 1 by 1, we had to block the dresser off since it's difficult to get them out. We don't know what it could be, we did double the size of her box, but it didn't seem to do much.

Have you tried moving the box to a dark closet in your room? Keep the door slightly ajar. She might feel safer hidden away.

jeannie3 said:

Have you tried moving the box to a dark closet in your room? Keep the door slightly ajar. She might feel safer hidden away.

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we don't really have a useable closest at the moment.

We moved the box by our bed, where she was moving the kittens, took a nap, woke up, she had moved 2 of them under our table (small one, where I have my docking station for my iPod)

So obviously she's still moving them...not sure what to do.

Is the box open? Maybe tape all the sides shut and cut out a small opening for the mama to go in and out. She may just want the kittens "hidden". Good luck
 

jeannie3 said:

Is the box open? Maybe tape all the sides shut and cut out a small opening for the mama to go in and out. She may just want the kittens "hidden". Good luck

 

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All the sides are shut, it's the top that's open... we can/are going to try to put another box ontop so it's concealed then just have a way for the mother to get out.

Thanks, we'll update after we try this.

In the shelters outside for ferales, they often prefer TWO opening out. One main, and one emergency. If a predator or stronger cat comes in, they can flee via the other one.