Hazel's Birth Story/ Today's Updates

So on yesterday, April 25, 2014, I woke up to this:

It's not unusual to wake up to Stella laying on me but it is odd to wake up to Hazel laying on me. After the girls jumped off of me, Hazel became a talker. She's usually pretty quiet so I knew something was up! I sent Mark a text telling him that Hazel was acting funny.

I went to the kitchen and sat down with my cup of coffee and started writing down my to do list for the day. As I started my second cup of coffee, I hear a loud teeny tiny meow in the bedroom. Near the bathroom area lay a new baby! Hazel was peeking out from under the bed at it, with a look of half scared and half "what the heck is that". Then an amazing thing happened: Stella starts cleaning her sister's baby and even took care of the sac. I've never witnessed anything like that before.

In the meantime, Hazel scoots back further under the bed (against the wall, of course!) and proceeds to have baby number two while Stella continues to be the nurturing aunt.

I managed to scoot the bed out and find Hazel with two more babies so now we're up to three newborns. The birthing stops so again I thought maybe there's only three. 

I went back to my to do list (which nothing got checked off by the way), surfed Facebook, posted excited status updates about the new kittens and did a few other random things. I decided to go check on mother and babies and there's now a total of five! All are tiny but all seem healthy.

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Today's updates:

Hazel thinks that she's super mom! Several times she's been caught in the box nursing Stella's kittens. Maybe Stella is super mom too though because I've seen her nursing Hazel's babies too.

But Hazel decided twice to try and out do her sister. Hazel thinks it would be easier to have all babies in one location so twice I've caught her moving her kittens to Stella's box. Funny kitties!

Hazel has became very protective of Stella's crew as well. Last night Mark and I had Stella's kittens on the bed with us. At first, Hazel hovered over her nieces like a Nervous Nellie. Then she tried to pick them up and carry them back to their box. I guess that was her way if saying that we didn't need to be getting her nieces dirty lol. She never succeeded in moving them though; I think her nieces are too chubby!

That's all for today but I'll leave ya with some pictures from today. 

The first is Hazel's babies at one day old:

 The next is of the sisters, Hazel and Stella relaxing:

(Notice Stella's leg over Hazel)

And the rest are some random photos of Hazel's babies:

   

😻👣