Let me start by saying hello to every one! As you are about to find out I have NO experience with a mother cat having kittens and i have a ton of questions! My cat gave birth last night to a litter of nine kittens! All the kittens are alive and doing really well, it is mom that I am worried about! With the first kitten she was straining for nearly an hour before she delivered the kitten. After the first kitten the other 8 were delivered with no problem, in fact at times it seemed that two kittens were coming out at the same time. I think some of what took so long is that she is a fat cat, even before getting pregnant, and she was not able to reach her girlie parts to lick at the kitten as it was born. So I guess that the reasons that I am nervous about the momma kitty are 1)She has not really cleaned herself off since giving birth
2) There still seems to be fresh blood leaking from her, not a lot but there is red blood
3) After she had the kittens I changed all the blankets and cleaned everything up, but then came back in a few hours later and there was some diarrhea on the towels.
4) Like I said she is a fat cat, but she still looks huge and her belly is still kind of hard! I can not imagine there could possibly be anymore kittens in there but I am not sure what to be watching for! Also as I had said earlier some came so quickly I could not tell if she at a couple of placenta's at one time. So I also need to know what to watch for as far as infection.
And one last thing, I made a mix of kitten chow and wet food and she has not really even touched it, is this normal? Maybe she is still just so tired! The active phase of labor lasted nearly 3.5 hours!
sorry this is so long, I just am worried for my mamma kitty
2) There still seems to be fresh blood leaking from her, not a lot but there is red blood
3) After she had the kittens I changed all the blankets and cleaned everything up, but then came back in a few hours later and there was some diarrhea on the towels.
4) Like I said she is a fat cat, but she still looks huge and her belly is still kind of hard! I can not imagine there could possibly be anymore kittens in there but I am not sure what to be watching for! Also as I had said earlier some came so quickly I could not tell if she at a couple of placenta's at one time. So I also need to know what to watch for as far as infection.
And one last thing, I made a mix of kitten chow and wet food and she has not really even touched it, is this normal? Maybe she is still just so tired! The active phase of labor lasted nearly 3.5 hours!
sorry this is so long, I just am worried for my mamma kitty