Hi! I’ve been taking care of a newborn kitten from a stray. She’s the only one who survived from a 3-kitten litter. The two others died from birth, but they are significantly larger in size than her. This kitten probably wasn’t able to be nursed after 24 hours of her birth because her mom was having a hard time with labor that she needed to have a csection (which is also an emergency spay). (The mom is okay now, but the vet told me she wouldn’t be able to nurse anymore)
So yeah, I’ve been taking care of this kitten since day 3 of her birth. I’m using kitten formula (not KMR though, we don’t have any of those here, unfortunately) and I’m bottle-feeding her every two hours. However, there are times that I haven’t been able to feed her because I oversleep. ><
I don’t have a kitchen scale but I could tell that she’s really thin for her age. It has already been more than 2 weeks and her eyes are still closed shut. I’m not sure when it has been there, but there is also a quiet clicking noise from her, and some say it could lead to pneumonia. She has yellow firm-to-soft poop with some blood (though sometimes there isn’t any). Her sucking reflex goes on and off–sometimes she can suck, sometimes she can’t– but even if she could suck, she could only take about 1-3 mL of formula, usually 1-2mL. When I try again, she would only lick the nipple but she couldn’t suck. I don’t know what to do, and I don’t have any more budget for the vet… I really feel bad.
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