hello!
I'm new here, my little bundle of fluff is Narla (pictured below! Swoon at the size of that belly!) she is a strictly house cat, 18months. We was waiting for her to get out of her season for spaying and low and behold managed to escape once (darn food delivery driver left the door open!) but it was over two days (that's all it takes, hehe!) so we have let her progress (our personal choice). We can't remember for the life of us the dates, so we are guessing at her weeks. Don't suppose anyone would like to have a guess based on the size of her? We have felt strong movements from babies .
Thought I'd also open this thread up as no doubt I'll have a lot of questions over the next coming weeks.
We have so far got this supply:
1ml and 2ml syringes
Camicat milk supplement (based on reccomendations seen here)
Forcepts and blunt scissors
Cord clamps
Sterile Gloves
Puppy pads (for clean up after birth to go in her nest)
All areas are closed off that would be of any inconvince for her to birth in, and has a nest cardboard box with bedding in ready.
Blub suction (just in case)
Thermometer and lubrication
Scales for daily weighing
Iodine in case she tears
And bottle with different teats on just in case they take to that over syringes just in case.
So with that said, anything else you'd recommend? I didn't know whether a heat pad would be worth a buy?
Weighing wise, I know they need to gain 6-10 grams a day, if they fall just below 6grams, how soon do you intervene? Straight away or leave a day to see if gain progresses?
As for food for mum, we have always fed high meat content (95%) food or raw (we have avoided raw during pregnancy as we wasn't sure), and wondered with this in mind whether we still needed to buy kitten food (we detest the likes of most brands due to the crap in them! ) She is fed as many times as she asks and obviously always has access to water.
Thank you, and I'm sure you'll hear so much more from me as a nervous soon to be grandmother to fur babies!
I'm new here, my little bundle of fluff is Narla (pictured below! Swoon at the size of that belly!) she is a strictly house cat, 18months. We was waiting for her to get out of her season for spaying and low and behold managed to escape once (darn food delivery driver left the door open!) but it was over two days (that's all it takes, hehe!) so we have let her progress (our personal choice). We can't remember for the life of us the dates, so we are guessing at her weeks. Don't suppose anyone would like to have a guess based on the size of her? We have felt strong movements from babies .
Thought I'd also open this thread up as no doubt I'll have a lot of questions over the next coming weeks.
We have so far got this supply:
1ml and 2ml syringes
Camicat milk supplement (based on reccomendations seen here)
Forcepts and blunt scissors
Cord clamps
Sterile Gloves
Puppy pads (for clean up after birth to go in her nest)
All areas are closed off that would be of any inconvince for her to birth in, and has a nest cardboard box with bedding in ready.
Blub suction (just in case)
Thermometer and lubrication
Scales for daily weighing
Iodine in case she tears
And bottle with different teats on just in case they take to that over syringes just in case.
So with that said, anything else you'd recommend? I didn't know whether a heat pad would be worth a buy?
Weighing wise, I know they need to gain 6-10 grams a day, if they fall just below 6grams, how soon do you intervene? Straight away or leave a day to see if gain progresses?
As for food for mum, we have always fed high meat content (95%) food or raw (we have avoided raw during pregnancy as we wasn't sure), and wondered with this in mind whether we still needed to buy kitten food (we detest the likes of most brands due to the crap in them! ) She is fed as many times as she asks and obviously always has access to water.
Thank you, and I'm sure you'll hear so much more from me as a nervous soon to be grandmother to fur babies!
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