Many female cats are very capable and instinctively take care of everything by themselves: tearing the fetal membranes of kittens, biting the umbilical cord, eating the placenta and licking the blood. But there are also some cats (especially some long-haired purebred cats) that need human care to successfully complete the production process. & gt
When delivering a baby, you should prepare scissors (for cutting the umbilical cord), hot towels (for wiping the nose and mouth and tearing off the placenta immediately after the kitten lands), silk or cotton thread (for tying the umbilical cord of the kitten), alcohol (for disinfecting the scissors) and other items.
Wash your hands before you pick up.
Before the kitten gives birth, the mother cat will straighten her hind legs. What is born is a gray bubble, not a placenta. If the mother cat doesn't care, you have to tear the placenta by hand immediately, and then quickly wipe the cat's nose and mouth with a hot towel to avoid choking on amniotic fluid (this is fatal! )。 Hearing the kitten "Ji Ji" means that the kitten is still alive! It takes about five minutes to deliver the placenta. After the placenta comes out, tie a knot about two centimeters away from the stomach with cotton thread, and then cut off the umbilical cord attached to the placenta behind the knot. Put the kitten in the mouth of the mother cat and let the mother cat lick the kitten's hair.
If the mother cat completes all the production processes by herself, the owner needs to check whether the umbilical cord of each kitten is bitten well. If many children are born, the last kitten may not bite the umbilical cord so perfectly, because the mother cat has no strength. Touch the mother cat before touching the kitten to make her hands smell like a mother cat.
Under normal circumstances, a kitten is born every twenty minutes. After all the kittens were born, the mother cat began to nurse. This is the correct feeding posture: the mother cat lies on her side. The bigger the kitten's belly, the better. After feeding, the mother cat will lick the kitten's PP and stimulate the kitten to defecate.
Many female cats are very capable and instinctively take care of everything by themselves: tearing the fetal membranes of kittens, biting the umbilical cord, eating the placenta and licking the blood. But there are also some cats (especially some long-haired purebred cats) that need human care to successfully complete the production process.
Giving birth to a mother cat is a very tiring thing, so water should be properly fed. You need to feed her food and water into her mouth.
* What should I do during dystocia?
Cats rarely have dystocia. If the fetus is too big, or the exercise during pregnancy is too small and the fetal position is not correct, dystocia will occur. There are several ways to deal with dystocia: if the kitten has exposed its legs, you can apply some grease, such as vaseline, to the kitten and near the birth canal, and at the same time gently pull the kitten to help the mother cat exert her strength. If dystocia has lasted for several hours, the kitten will suffocate in its mother. Another way is to go to the hospital to inject oxytocin.
* PP will still bleed after giving birth to a female cat. Does it matter? This is a normal phenomenon. You can take 1/4 tablets of norfloxacin orally (only once) to avoid inflammation. The bleeding will last for about three or four days.