Mama cats stimulate kittens to help them pee and poop by licking them—so if you’re caring for orphans, you’ll have to mimic this behavior with a soft, absorbent tissue until they are about three weeks old. You can learn about helping orphaned kittens pee and poop at kittenlady.org/stimulating 🐱 | Kitten Lady

The key fostering a nursing mom with neonatal kittens is to keep her life as stress-free as possible. Right now it is taking the best care of nursing mama cat so that she care for her 14 day old kittens. Neonatal kittens need her more than they need you. And while you will need to interact with them to weigh them and change bedding (which also depends a lot of how mom is as to how often you should… if mom is protective and they are plumb and don’t cry then don’t stress her, do periodically so th