Thank you and I believe she is she was having them about 30mins apart and it's been almost an hour since the last one was born and yes they are nursing it was rough at first for them to latch on cause she kept moving to clean the next kitten but they're all nursing now or so it looks
Here they are!! And yes I'm very happy everything went well especially cause it was my first time I'm not too sure if it was her first litter or not but I am concerned that she hasn't touched her water yet I had to remove her to eat but that lasted 1 minute so I put the food in the box and she ate it that way but she will not drink any water...any advice?
She'll be fine. Glad you served in the box. Just leave the food and water nearby and she'll get to it when she's ready. She's not starving after eating placentas, and probably craves resting and nursing more than water right now. I served my cat in her box as well after she gave birth, and she didn't get out for 12 hours, and then it was real quick! Put her litter box nearby too so she doesn't have to leave her kittens too long to use it.
Sounds like it may be her first litter. And it sure is an attractive, healthy looking one at that! Glad they are nursing well. You'll find that mama is with her kittens most of the time, which is a good thing. Congratulations!
Thank you I'm pretty sure everything went all right during the night I don't think momma got up at all during night she hasn't used the bathroom yet I set up a nice new clean litter box last night and it hasn't been used yet but I woke up about 10mins ago to momma getting up and outta the box to eat I moved the food out before I went to bed just in case anything would have happened she hasn't drank any water yet that I've noticed it's a little bothersome but I'm sure she'll drink some soon enough
@sarthur2 do you know when the kittens should be soiling the nesting box? I haven't seen anything yet. I just don't wanna be over concerned if I don't need to be.
I'm not real sure, but have done ALOT of reading since this is my first time doing this, but I believe the Mom cleans it as they do it being as how for the first little while Mom has to "coax" them to go..... I know I'm not sarthur2, but I hope it helps!!!! :-) your babies are so precious!!!
Mom stimulates them to go potty by licking their behinds and cleans the output too, so you won't see much right away. You can change the bedding every so often if you begin to see stains, but it won't be a lot right now. Mom takes care of all that! No worries!
Thanks guys I really appreciate the advice they are all doing so well and momma finally started drinking water and finally went potty for the first time since yesterday morning here's a pic of the babies I took about 15mins ago while momma was eating