Today Is The Day!!!

OK I'm getting kind of concerned about my baby. Now it has been three to four hours since her last birth. All births have been live and healthy, BUT she still seems to be doing laboured breathing. All of the time she has been in labor I have NOT seen her pant ONE TIME. As I was watching over her I saw her pant mouth open and all. What could this mean?? Is she still in labor, is something wrong? Please tell me something?

did she deliver all the placentas? if not one could be coming. sometimes they rest a while between babies too, icis did, 4 hours between #3 and #4.

Was the birth nice and easy for her or did she have any troubles? Because my girl, Aisha, had a really hard birth with her first kitten and it tired her right out for the other three kittens and she had labored breathing for quite a while after she was finished. Congrats on the kittens!

Thank you all soooo much you all made me feel much much better. EVERYONE is doing just fine. MaxSheba is resting with her little ones. She has been quite the trooper throughout all of this and I am very proud! GOOD JOB MAMA!
So the end result is Five kittens!
Baby 1-Born at 5:20-The oldest is the only girl and she is a FIGHTER. There are eight nipples and she ONLY wants the one the second born is going for and she will fight to get it! But we named her HOPE b/c we didn't know what to do and we had HOPE that she would make it. I prayed over MAXSHEBA as all of them were being born and blessed her with oil and she did an AWESOME JOB.

Baby 2-Born at 5:35-The second born is DAVID. David is such a fighter as well which is why I think Hope picks the nipple he's on. When he came out MaxSheba didn't even have to do to much to him, he came out meowing, and eating. He is definetly a warrior like DAVID from the bible, litle but strong, hence the name.
Baby 3 Born at 6:50 The third is name Judah, which means to confess,praise or give thanks. We are thank ful for this little boy. You can tell he is kind of in the middle b/c he eats and just stays out of everyone's way

Baby 4-Born at 7:45The fourth is PEACE. MaxSheba was dealing with other two as she was giving birth to him. She didn't get to him RIGHT away which scared me a little but I guess if I had just had three kids and were having another I'd be concerned and have to balance it all out too. So, because he was so peaceful about and politely took a nipple quietly that no one else was on we named him Peace.

Baby 5-Born at 8:20 The fith and final is Maxamillus or MAX. This is the anticpated grandson of my husband. We have been watching the babies move and kick withing our girl for almost two weeks now and I told him that the STRONG one that comes out is his and would be MAX. Max retrieved his name as the younges of five siblings b/c if you think baby 3 had to burst out on his own what did baby five do. Max literally broke out of the sac himself and all mommy had to do was clean up a little Therefore he takes on the namesake of my husband dear cat that has gone to rainbow bridge as MAX! He is also the one that is colored different from every one else with silver tiger stripes.
Now that we look at all the kits we can tell whether they are black, silver and brown or whether the black is just dark and will become steele grey like mommy. They all have brown in them, with what looks to be black or eventually steele grey, and the the youngest is tiger striped. They are georgeous and healthy and she is just being an AWESOME MOMMY! I will get my pictures developed by this week something and post!

Congrats on the new gang!!! Its good to know that everyone is doing good

thanks! I'm looking forward to hearing about yours as well!

Congrats! I was reading about the births last night...nice to hear that you have 5 healthy kittens! Waiting patiently for pics!

Oh, I spoke too soon! My first post said congrats on the 4, and now you have 5 kittens!

So an added congrats!

LOL Thank you all!! She is doing wonderfully, but now I am trying to stop her from moving her babies. I guess it's mother instinct but SHEESH! She keeps trying to move her kids and she wants to movethem somewhere unsafe! I fee like her Mommy trying to tell her what to do with my grand kitties b/c I fussed at her and I said, "put him back right now! You can NOT take him under my dresser! And I closed the door and she looked at me then put him back" I don't know what to do until I get the cage.

If you have a decent size carrier you can use that for the time being. If this is her first litter then she is just acting nervous by carrying them around everywhere.

If its bad enough you can move her to a bathroom and keep her in there until she calms down and gets the idea to not move them.

Yeah. I will try that b/c she was moving them last night. Something woke me up and I didn't really know what but at 3:30 am I get up and I see her pulling them out of the box under my dresser and that is a VERY VERY DANGEROUS place for them so I put the two she moved back b/c they were already starting to wonder around so from where she put them. So I moved them and then today so she either goes in the bathroom until I get the playpen or she stops moving them. If she moves them again, its to the restroom for her.

congrats on the kittys n well done mummy cat cant w8 2 c the pics

thanks. I'm taking the photos to be developed AND taking new ones by THURSDAY, so watch on thursday for the PICTURE POST!! I CAN'T WAIT TO FINALLY SHOW YOU MY BABY AND MY GRAND-KITTIES!

yay! pictures! i'm excited!!! how is she doing today?

She's getting on my nerve with a baby in her mouth every five second! But she is being a really a good good mamma. I have one baby, Judah, who decides that he wants to escape. lol I'll be looking up when I'm working and he's half way accross the floor. He is gonna be something else! lol But otherwise everyone is fine and resting. She has actually started resting away from the nest for minutes at a time

Well today is the day that my grandkitties turn 1 week old! I am going today to get the pictures developed AND to buy another disposable camera just as promised. Sorry its taking me so long but I have been working ALL week long. Congrats to everyone else on their new arrival!

I just wanted everyone to know that I posted her pictures under the thread Pictures of MAXSHEBA Finally! I have to take more though. I will get their one week pictures taken this week, lol hopefully B4 they turn 2 weeks

Okay I was looking at my babies today b/c I sexed them their first day according to a great link I got. They are way way harder to be sure of who is who and what is what lol rotf b/c they are such little whiners when picked up. We are sooo praying that they are NOT going to be picky pickers like their mama Now we have decided that we are keeping original names but they came so unexpectedly that we didn't have time to mark them and nwo they look so much alike we cant tell who is who. OOOH BOY! So we are going to take good two weeks pics and hopefully you guys can help us decide which name fits them out of the five names we choose, sort of a match a kitten with a name, and whether they are girls or boys b/c now we just aren't sure at all