Furr Babies

Early this morning, 1am, Toni crawled in bed with me. At about 1:30am I woke up to see Tula laying on Toni's chest, which she normally only lays on me this way. I reached over and started petting her to get her to laydown. It was then that I noticed my hand was a little damp. I jump out of bed, tell Toni to scoot over, Tula lays down, I pull up her tail and sure enough, there's a bag of water protruding from her back side. I wake Zach up and have him help me herd Tula into the baby's room where I have all the stuff I need to help her with the labor and delivery if she needed me. She wonders around anxiously for about a half hour. To her box in the closet, under the crib, around the rocking chair, onto the rocking chair, down around me, purring and asking for reassurance from me. After about a half hour, she starts screaming YES screaming and crying, she walks to the nursery door and there she has her first baby <3 I had to grab it, she was so scared and I think shocked at what had happened. I pick up the baby, tear the sac away from it's face and rub it and wipe it's face off with a baby wash cloth. It starts mewing!! I take it my fluffy robe I've layed on the floor for Tula, it's her favorite and she sleeps on it all the time. Instincts take over and I sit back and watch. Tula starts to lick her new baby, stimulating it to cry and breath. About 10 minutes later, baby number two comes around. This one and the three after she decides to deliver under the crib. After she's chewed the cord (yes it's gross but that's what they do) I pick up the baby, grab a dry wash cloth and dry it some more, rubbing and keeping it warm until Tula makes her way out from under the crib. After the first two babies, there was a break of about 30-45 minutes, then the next two came. I put the babies in their box, Tula climbed in, rolled over, put her paws around her babies and started purring, feeding her new little ones. I put the box in the closet, closed the closet doors, leaving a gap about a foot wide to allow some light in. I put a bowl of milk, a bowl of water, some food and a fresh litter box in the closet. I checked on them throughout the night and have been checking on them every couple of hours today to make sure they are warm, eating and that Tula-Ru is doing well.

We have a white kitten with a little bit of grey, just a few spots on the head and a grey tail. Baby # 2 is white with a few black spots on the head and a black tail. Baby # 3 is black with a white splotch on the back and a white chest. Baby # 4 looks a lot like Tula, about half and half black and white. The girls have named them, however only one has a name attached to it :)

Baby # 3 the black with a little white is Figaro, THANK YOU SAM!! For the suggestion, it worked out perfect :)

The other names that Eden and Toni picked are : Sarah, Annalisa, and Bridie

I'm thinking that the white kittens will be Sarah and Annalisa and the other black kitten will be Bridie.

All in all, it was a tiring, long night, for both Tula and I. Zach let me sleep in until 11:30 this morning too :) Momma and babies are doing great and I will be posting pictures later on this week.