Pregnant cat - now what?

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Been at vets today - weren't sure whether cat was just eating all the pies... kittens coming in 4 weeks!

Very excited at being a granny, but need a bit of a "manual" type book to make sure we do everything right etc - any suggestions for useful books or websites?

And before anyone tell us off for being irresponsible - we have new owners lined up already, and will have her spayed after these ones arrive. And I have always had kittens from a rehoming centre before - the first one I had is still marching on (if rather slower than before ) at the ripe old age of 18!

Anyway that's how it is (defensive, moi?) so now I need to do it properly.

Thanks.

Would this be helpful?

One of our cats had kittens years ago. We found out she was pregnant and then about two days later she started bleeding. We took her to the vet and she ended up having an EMCS to save her life. It was all too much of a rush to get any preparation reading in!

This is good advice too - ninth post, 8.20am today, 5th April.

When my cat (stray cat who was pregnant when I adopted her) had kittens I was anxious to do all the right things, but basically advised by the vet to keep her happy and she would take good care of the kittens... she just needed plenty of food (kitten/ nursing mother food) and a cosy basket to sleep in in a quiet corner of the house. She then looked after them beautifully, and they only became hard work- but lots of fun- at about a month old when they started exploring!

I kept them to one room at first, with water, food, litter tray, and then kitten proofed the house- be careful with anything they could fall into or climb, eg laundry basket, bin, loo, washing machine, cords on blinds, electric cables...

They learnt to use their litter tray quite quickly by copying her. From 5-6 weeks they started eating moistened kitten food, about 5 meals a day at first, but they still fed from her too. They stayed inside until they had had all their injections and been neutered/ spayed, at about 5 months. Any concerns, such as diarrhoea or vomiting, they saw the vet straightaway, as kittens can dehydrate quickly.

Good luck and enjoy!