She seems to enjoy it lol if I so much as try to check her nipples or tum I get bunny kicked, claws grab my index finger, a light nip and then she rubs her face with it XD
Do you still see/ feel the kittens moving? It's true sometimes by the end they're so crowded in there that they don't move as much as they did at 7 or 8 wks.
She pretty much had to be at least 6 wks and more likely at least 7 when you could first feel them moving.
I think I thought she was so close because it sounded like she was having some discharge about a week ago. Is she still having any discharge?
No, as it turned out she sat on some cream lol (other cat popped it open) she's tearing up paper next to me to the bed :/ doesn't touch the nests as much as this spot next to me. The vet said she was gonna pop so I'm guessing she wasn't that far, I have a feeling that she isn't too far away (she is also sitting odd when she eats, legs spread and toes spread)
Update! Tequila is pooing a lot, runny. She did throw up three times last night, first two times it was all dry food and the last it was a yellow/green color. She hasn't thrown up since, after everytime (poo and vomit) she just comes up and sleeps next to me for a while. Is she close?
She should be close by now! she has been tearing up paper , that is pretty common nesting behavior for the last wk but now Ms. Tequila has me wary of predicting.
It's definitely not abnormal they can have loose poop within the last few days.
and some queens also vomit in the first stage of labor ... that should normally not last more than 24 hours. If she starts in repeatedly vomiting more and shows no sign of labor progressing, I would phone your vet. With the holiday approaching, you should make sure you either have a vet on call or an emergency vet that is open 24/7
Probably everything is OK and she was really like 6 wks pregnant when you got her and it's just progressing on schedule, but I am just hoping nothing is going wrong, since a vet did examine her a few weeks ago and thought she was a lot closer to delivery, and what you mentioned about the stuff on her butt that MIGHT have been some kind of discharge from her vagina . I hope it was not a sign of infection / something going wrong with the kittens.
Will she let you touch her at all so you could at least tell if she feels hot?
Hoping all is well and you will have some healthy kittens by Christmas.
Anywhere near her butt or tummy she won't let me touch, unless she is stretching. She hasn't thrown up since, it looked like only dry food so I've getting her to eat a little more of the wet food. Has helped, she hasn't been going to the toilet as much as yesterday. No, she's healthy (vet checked her and I ended up calling) I think I'm so impatient for these kittens I'm making myself see things lol. She has been going into Tue cubed a lot more, of course where I keep my pJ's! Her eating has slowed down a little, she's been sleeping on the bed next to me a lot more lately. She will wake me up around 3-6AM and just lay next to me or on my arm lol so she is getting more cuddly and more meowing/wanting more pats. Yes I'm thinking the vet got it wrong on how far along she is. I don't know if this means how along she is but she's wide, kind of looks like one side is a little bigger (not a lot but a little)
Very glad to hear the vet checked her and she is healthy. Maybe she is just waiting so she can have some Christmas babies.
A cat uterus is shaped sort of like a V. with 2 " horns" . It sounds like she may have more kittens on one side than the other , so that is why she would be bigger on one side.
Well, she certainly looks bigger than she did in the other photo . Actually , when I really looked at that earlier photo you posted 2 weeks ago , I thought it looked more typical of a cat about 6 to 7weeks pregnant. But it is really hard to generalize since cats can have very different size litters and even aside from that, some just get bigger than others.
The vet did say she isn't easy to feel XD she kept bunny kicking him and doing a crocodile roll lol she doesn't like her tummy to be touched! She is getting bigger so maybe even new years that's what I thought with her sides but I don't know much about female cats haha only female pet I've had that's had babies would be my rabbit Buffy. Tequila keeps giving keep signs that she's ready so I keep thinking "This is it!" I think she likes doing it :3 so happy that's she's 100% healthy, still don't know why she threw up that much the other night butshe's fine today, she's been at my side all day, very playful
We found out why she was throwing up, tapeworm. Big one too, it came out in the vomit and the vet said since I gave her the de-worming paste to give her more after she gives birth and the kittens when they are old [ATTACHMENT=492]20131224_102903-1.jpg (854k. jpg file)[/ATTACHMENT]ugh
I believe that Milbemax is available without seeing the vet in Australia. If it is, suggest you worm her with that as it's effective against both roundworms and tapeworms. According to the data sheet it's safe for pregnant and lactating cats:
Effective worming is important for pregnant and lactating cats as immature roundworm can encyst, and like that wormers don't kill them. The hormonal changes of pregnancy revive them and they cross to the kittens in the mother's milk. I wormed my own (pedigree) cat before she went to stud, at about 7 weeks into her pregnancy, and when the kittens were 6 & 10 weeks. The kittens were wormed as well at 6 & 10 weeks - they can have Milbemax as soon as they are 6 weeks old and at least 500g.
That's what the vet gave us, they said it's the type of tapeworm that starts with P. She has had them for months, when she was with her old owners. She just has to take 3 tablets and she should be good thank good!