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Thanks! I'm so proud of my girl. She did wonderful. She's even let the other cat AND the dog sniff and lick the babies without killing them. She watched them closely but didn't freak out or get excited.
The saving you did here is WAAY above average. A real marvel worth inscribing into the classic textbooks.Never seen two kittens from one placenta sack before, apparently usually only one makes it when it does happen?
Lady Luck was with you both here. Look, if the kittens are rather small now, and one is tiny, 10 days ago they would be directly premature, Probably none would survive more than a few hours.She had them at 67/68 days. Had me worried and waiting for darn near 10 days, she's been showing signs since around day 58.
I know. Even the contractions she was having four days ago would probably have been too soon for the little one. Maybe she knew and that's why she stopped them? Mother's intuition.Lady Luck was with you both here. Look, if the kittens are rather small now, and one is tiny, 10 days ago they would be directly premature, Probably none would survive more than a few hours.
Well I knew that I had to keep rubbing her and to clear her airways, it worried me because when they both came out, she was laying there not moving at all, and mossy ignored her and started caring for the twin, so I grabbed her and started rubbing real good with the towel, had to pull a lot of mucous and slime out of her mouth but she started breathing. I bottle fed her formula but i think what helped is i actually held her in my hand up to her mama to drink for like 20 minutes, and she got a lot of goodies from the natural milk. I also had a heating pad underneath the blankets in the box to help keep them warm. I bottle fed her frequently throughout the night and kept rubbing her and kept her warm, and she just gained strength enough to suckle from mama on her own. She's doing great this morning, put on a little more weight. Will do her official weigh in this evening though to make sure she's gained enough. Interestingly I've figured out that she is extremely limber in her front legs, double jointed maybe? She can twist and grab with them like actual hands, and she has little thumbs! She's going to be a very special girl when she's all growed up.The saving you did here is WAAY above average. A real marvel worth inscribing into the classic textbooks.
I dont know if you had vet guiding you, as you mention you phoned her frequently. Or it was you own sound wits.
I mean, if you werent as active and working just so, she would join the negative statistics.
56 grammes is little weigh. I had heard about others who did make it with lotsa work of the owner, but it is surely the about the lowest limit still manageable (if lucky enough).
You seems to do it very nicely. Make sure she has it warm, but not too warm. Too warm is almost as dangerous as not enough warm. Cats body temp is a little higher than humans.
Have dextrose (glucose sugar) home, so you are ready for crises, both with kittens and human kids.
Good luck!
Here in Sweden they have dextrose in the common food shops, on the bakery shelves. I suppose it is used somewhere in baking!I have corn syrup for an emergency, not sure where to find pure dextrose in my town. Walmart or a pharmacy? Can I mix a little with the formula for Hemi just to give her an extra boost?