Mother cat issues, please help

[Lizzie]

Good job on taking over for mother cat for a while at least. Perhaps she will take to her kitten when it looks and sounds more healthy from your feeding it. Please remember to stimulate the kitten to pee and poop since mother cat may well not be doing this either. If this isn't done after feeding, the kitten can die very quickly. Use a warm wash cloth and stroke gently (not too lightly though) down the kitten's abdomen towards the anus over and over until you see it pee and poop.

Please keep us updated.

[moosmom]

Ali,

WHY are you letting Mama outside when she's not spayed?????? Don't you know that she can and WILL get pregnant again if she's not fixed, regardless of whether she just had kittens or not.

You're taking the chance of her getting hit by a car, killed by predators, contracting cat diseases from other neighborhood cats that haven't been vaccinated or carry the FeLv virus???

Please keep her inside.

[AliMaxwell]

I had no idea she could get pregnant again so fast after having babies. She wouldnt get ran over tho, we live out in the country and we are really far from the road, she seems to stick around the house anyways. But ill keep her inside till we get her spayed, cant do that till she dries up.
The baby seems to have brain damage or something tho, because its not the mom, its the baby. She will root around for food for a few minutes and then she gets lost and wanders off. We have even put her on a nipple, and she just sort of turns away and wanders off. The mom meows and seems to take care of it the best she can. Ive really been paying attention lately. So i feed her the forumula when she complains and i leave the rest up to Skittles since she is taking care of her as she is suppose to. I had no idea cats had issues with babies, i thought they just had kittens and she kept them hidden till they got a bit bigger. This is rouph! Thanks