Newborn kittens help please

[PurpleThistles84]

My cat gave birth to six kittens yesterday, all doing well. She decided to have them behind my couch but this morning she has moved them to my bedroom which has hard vinyl flooring. They are between two cabinets. Obviously there are no blankets there and I'm not sure if I should try to add some? I don't want to distress my cat by interfering but I also want to make sure the kittens are safe and warm.

We have only had my cat about six weeks, we got her from my FIL neighbour and when we took her to be neutered we found she was pregnant. She will be neutered as soon as the kittens are no longer nursing.

Maybe get a big cardboard box and line it with blankets or sheets and move them all into it

Do not handle the kittens, you shouldn’t touch them for two weeks.
I’d put a blanket / bed close by and leave alone.

@Suzi888

Do not handle the kittens, you shouldn’t touch them for two weeks. I’d put a blanket / bed close by and leave alone.

Agreed. Keep the room at a good temperature too, as much as you're able. If you haven't already, speak to your vets for further advice.

I tried to speak to my vet but because of covid I will have to wait until tomorrow as they are only open for one hour a day. There is an emergency number but I don't think it's an emergency. Thanks for the advice, I will leave a blanket close by and leave alone. I haven't touched them at all as I'm really conscious of upsetting my cat, she took to us really well and I think she trusts us but I don't see any sign of any issues so I have left them alone.

I agree with making sure there is a box and blankets available but otherwise leave her.

Our childhood cat spent a week nesting in a box in a cupboard under the stairs then had her kittens in the middle of the sitting room. Then just as we were adjusting to the prospect of walking round this bundle of fluff everytime we watched TV she picked them up and moved them to the neat.

@helpfulperson cats are so wonderfully perverse 🤣

Good luck, op, and please don't forget that having posted in this forum you are henceforth contractually obliged to provide us with plenty of kitten photographs as soon as its appropriate to do so!

If you get a box try and get one that's high enough that you can drape a blanket over the top but not completely, just at one end. And secure it with pegs.

Thanks all, she ended up moving them to a clothes rail in my room, of all places. I took the clothes on the bottom rail off and out a box on it and moved the kittens in, she has been happy to stay since.

I think I will be taking my cat to the vet however as she has got super skinny and I'm worried. Her kittens are thriving, but she herself is wasting away. I give her all wet food made for kittens, she is eating well but at the very least I myself need assurance that she is okay. Whilst I am there I will get her booked in to be neutered as soon as the vet says it can be done.

As for picture this is the only one I could get when I took a quick peek whilst mum cat was off after some food!

Mummy cats do seem to lose weight when they are feeding kittens.
With ours we gave her wet food 4 times a day and free access to as much dry as she wanted. She ate so much!

I'd give dry and wet and as much as she will eat