we had a wild "kitten" show up at our door once. I kept feeding her every day but she would never let me near her. well, i started noticing that her belly was getting very fat!!! surely it wasn't from being fed every day
so i realized that she was going to have kittens!! well, she started warming up to me..but never enough to where she would let me bend down and pick her up. she would rub on my leg but as soon as I showed interest in petting her, she would run away. I knew that I wanted to get her and the kittens once they were born so that I could be around the kittens and make sure they were tame so I could find them homes. but I had made so much progress with her that i was afraid that once the kittens were born, she would get wild again and be mean. well... a couple of weeks went by and suddenly i didn't see her for 2 days. on the 2nd day, i went asking my neighbors if they had seen her. one neighbor was having some construction done and one of the workers said that they found some kittens but no mama. so they brought me the kittens...I put them in our extra room with lots of towels, blankets, and such. then i found her and brought one of the kittens with me...MUCH TO MY SURPRISE...she followed me into my house...and into the room where the kittens were. she was sooooooooooo affectionate towards me. almost like she was thanking me. I kept her and the kittens in there with everything they needed until the kittens were old enough to go to new homes. I spent several hours a day with them and they were the sweetest bunch of kittens ever. once they were all gone, mama went back outside (she really wanted to!!!) and she became our outside pet
she was a great cat...and a great mama to those babies.
I hope and pray for a safe delivery of those kittens. and hopefully your new family member will be like ours was...and trust you enough...and will become affectionate the way ours did. it was truly a wonderful experience for me!!!!