[Julie1760]

I have a cat that came to live at our house last summer as a kitten. Her brother and mother did too for a while then they went away. She is a inside/outside cat. We have a extra garage that we fed her in and she had her bed, but most of the time she came it the house. She goes outside in her cat box, so that worked for us. She was hit by a car when she was about 6-7 months old and we brought her in the house and nursed her back to health.

So spring time comes and I tell hubby, she will wind up getting Pregnant if we don't have her fixed. He says, he didn't think she would be able to because of her ingeries from the car hitting her. Low and behold, she did get pregnant. So we were keeping a close eye on her and I notice her going into labor. She had her nesting box and was looking/acting normal. I went to do my noon bus route and came home and she had had one kitten, but it was dead. It was still warm and she was cleaning it up like she is suppose to. So I stayed with her and she started to have another about 2 hours later, but it is breech, and she wasn't really pushing...I got on the phone to the vet and he said to see if I could gently get it out when she had a contraction...and hubby tired too. It wouldn't come out...so we rush to the vet. They removed the dead kitten and gave her shots of oxytocin to help her with the rest of the litter. They wanted to keep her over night, but I brought her home with me as they don't have anyone there working overnight. If she had anymore problems, I wanted to know right away and not have her die by morning.

So morning comes, and still no kittens and me with no sleep. I called the vet and they said we better bring her in and they did a c-section. We have 2 surviving kittens, but mom had no milk so I have to bottle feed them every 2 hours. We are hoping she gets her milk in as the kittens don't like the bottle at all. They weight 2 1/2 oz and 3 1/8 oz. They seem to be nursing, but we don't know how much they are getting.

The vet said that her insides were all messed up and it was amazing that she got pregnant at all. Her uterus is attached to her bladder so everytime she had a contraction, the bladder stopped the progression. So after 2 days of no sleep, we are just glad we have the 2 left and mom is doing wonderful with them. She is doing all the normal things she is suppose to do. I just pray they make it.

Sorry this got so long..I just needed to get this all out, I've been a basket case. And so this doesn't happen again....she was spayed, too.