a WONDERFUL day
I suppose it's about time I recount the last 18 hours or so.
My very long day started yesterday when I woke up at 3ish in the afternoon. My cat wanted attention the whole time and if you stopped petting her she would scream. Anyway, we soon figured out that she was starting to have contractions and that in an hour or more she would go into full labour and have her kittens. The hours went by, she was in terrible pain, and by 9PM there were still no babies. Finally around 10-10:30ish we saw a tail, but that meant that the baby was wrong way round. With help from us she delivered her first baby, although it was very traumatizing and we could tell that it really hurt (the kitten was HUGE). We expected the rest of the delivery to go by fast and be over in at least and hour...we were wrong. The poor new mommy had very bad contractions, yet nothing happened. we saw a head every now and then, but it just went back everytime. When 1AM came around we knew something was wrong and we knew she would have to go to the vet first thing in the morning. We thought we would retire for the night...BUT, and this is where my life became a bundle of bliss, whenever you went away, she would follow and in her state this was not a good thing. The solution to this problem (my parents decided) was that someone had to stay up with her AND seeing as I had slept in till 3 in the afternoon that day, the person who was to stay up...was ME!! Anywho, the night went by with nothing interesting happening, except that my poor kitty was still in a lot of pain :( In the morning we took her to the vet as soon as possible and the vet said that there were still two babies IN her. They gave her glucose, for energy, and some other stuff that made her have more contractions. Neither worked so they had to do a C-Section. One of the kittens died (the one that was already in the birth canal) but the other one is fine. Our kitty is also doing well now, she is upstairs with her two babies and both are suckling happily.
Well, then there is me. I have not slept in 18 hours and I have to stay awake till 11 because Celli is calling me when she gets home from Guys & Dolls.
My very long day started yesterday when I woke up at 3ish in the afternoon. My cat wanted attention the whole time and if you stopped petting her she would scream. Anyway, we soon figured out that she was starting to have contractions and that in an hour or more she would go into full labour and have her kittens. The hours went by, she was in terrible pain, and by 9PM there were still no babies. Finally around 10-10:30ish we saw a tail, but that meant that the baby was wrong way round. With help from us she delivered her first baby, although it was very traumatizing and we could tell that it really hurt (the kitten was HUGE). We expected the rest of the delivery to go by fast and be over in at least and hour...we were wrong. The poor new mommy had very bad contractions, yet nothing happened. we saw a head every now and then, but it just went back everytime. When 1AM came around we knew something was wrong and we knew she would have to go to the vet first thing in the morning. We thought we would retire for the night...BUT, and this is where my life became a bundle of bliss, whenever you went away, she would follow and in her state this was not a good thing. The solution to this problem (my parents decided) was that someone had to stay up with her AND seeing as I had slept in till 3 in the afternoon that day, the person who was to stay up...was ME!! Anywho, the night went by with nothing interesting happening, except that my poor kitty was still in a lot of pain :( In the morning we took her to the vet as soon as possible and the vet said that there were still two babies IN her. They gave her glucose, for energy, and some other stuff that made her have more contractions. Neither worked so they had to do a C-Section. One of the kittens died (the one that was already in the birth canal) but the other one is fine. Our kitty is also doing well now, she is upstairs with her two babies and both are suckling happily.
Well, then there is me. I have not slept in 18 hours and I have to stay awake till 11 because Celli is calling me when she gets home from Guys & Dolls.