After browsing the wonderful internet, it became obvious to me that to have any idea if Lulu were pregnant I would have to wait or spend ridiculous amounts of money on a vet.
And me being a poorly student I opted for waiting.
This meant that all my questions and facts came from numerous sources.. Google Search. Hours of reading, looking and in some cases watching, I felt a bit more at ease with the process.
These are a few thing I found important/ interesting:
- Gestation period for a cat can be anywhere from 57 to 69 days (averaging around 65 days)
- It is definitely possible to have numerous fathers to one litter of kittens
- Cats can get pregnant from as young as 4 months
- You can have cat ultrasounds after 15 days
- Cats usually purr during labour
- Kittens are always born with blue eyes. The true color won’t start showing through until around 5 or 6 weeks.
- A kitten will usually open its eyes between 5 and 10 days old.
- You can try self diagnose pregnancy by an increase in appetite, swollen nipples and a change in the cats behaviour
- Cats can have anywhere from 1 to 19 kittens ( 19 being the record for one litter )
- A quick way of calculating the birth date if u know the mating date is by checking this calendar ( http://www.cat-pregnancy-report.com/cat-pregnancy-calendar.html )
- Very informative sites ( http://www.pet-informed-veterinary-advice-online.com/cat-pregnancy.html , http://www.pet-informed-veterinary-advice-online.com/stage-of-cat-pregnancy.html)
As I reached week 4 it was very clear that lulu was going to be a mother. After much research and from photos posted above and below Lulu had what seemed to be a pot belly and very pink, swollen nipples. So the kittens are on there way,
according to many websites here are a few characteristics of the unborn kittens as of 4 to 4.5 weeks.
kittens by this stage have claws and most organs, they have some small bones and they have developing ears and eyelids have formed.
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