Nursing mom not eating / kittens!

I have a nursing mamma Friday will be 1 week since she had her kittens she done great. Yesterday she started not eating and not eating today much either. She is drinking and still nursing. Is this normal?

I am no expert on new mamas, having learned most of what I know here.  I'm going to flag your post for the moderators, so they can get your question to someone who knows what's up.

Thank you!

Sounds kinda serious.  Does she have a fever or any discharge?  I wonder about pyometra but I'm not sure if it can occur right after birth or not.  Poor kitty.  Can you tell if her belly hurts?  

No fever and no discharge . Just the very little bleeding that is normal.she is walking around every now and then and still going so good with the babies. Just not eating. Also not sure of this makes a difference I wouldn't think so but she use to purr the whole time while nursing and now she's not.i did pick her up to hold her to see if she was ok and she didn't mind me picking her up .

I would definitely call for an appointment with the vet because nursing mama kitties are supposed to eat.  In the meantime, one of the advisors could shed some light on what might be going on here.  Hope it's easily fixable!  How many kittens did she have?  Also, we love pictures of mom and babies, so if you could put up a few that'd be great.  

Have you called the vet?  It could be an infection.  Nursing moms need to eat a lot everyday.  And no cat should go without eating.  It can cause liver problems.

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Hmm. This is not good. I'm thinking she may have an infection. Nursing moms are usually very hungry. Please get her to the vet.

What has she been eating until now?

breanne25 said:

I have a nursing mamma Friday will be 1 week since she had her kittens she done great. Yesterday she started not eating and not eating today much either. She is drinking and still nursing. Is this normal?

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Its potentially alarming, as the others says., shourter  pauses may be normal, but its going on now...  Entice some food at her at all costs.  Kmr or goats milk as fluids...  And contact your vet asap yes.     In short, at this moment you shall see it as Red Alert.

How many kittens are there?  Ie how great is the burden on her body?

With momma probably sick and probably soon enough on the sick list, you must prepare to handraise the kittens yourself. Or at the very least, to supplement feed them.

Get home kmr - preferably KMR in powder made by PetAg, there are other good brands too alike  GNC or Royal Canins, - goats milk is an alternative.

A scale, to weith the kittens daily, so you see they gain properly

small needleless syringes of 1-1,5 ml, to give them food (tummy down, head up, diagonally up - in the corner of the mouth, dropwise so you are sure they swallow properly)

Small sponges may b e useful, for example such make-up sponges - some kitten has easier to suckle from such a sponge.

A glucose sugar source - if you cant get glucose sugar proper, honey is useful.

This may become useful in many critical situations!

Please do report, even if nothing much happens.

How is mom today? Has she eaten yet?

I'm at work right now. My husband had get at the vet right now. I will answer more questions when I get off.

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Great! Thank you. Hoping she is okay.

The vet said she didn't really see anything to be wrong or any infection. She still gave her a antibiotic shot and dewormer. And after coming home she started eating shortly after the vet will call tomorrow to check on her. She said I shouldn't have to bottle feed the kittens look great.

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I'm glad mom is now eating, and that she got antibiotics and worm meds.

Kittens look good, and sounds like no issues with nursing.