Give the cage a nice cleaning now, while she's still got the little munchkins in her belly. Do not clean her cage for at least a week after the babies are born because when I worked at the pet store, I learned the hard way that when a hammie is stressed, it has very little maternal behaviors. I cleaned a cage of a new mom hammie and she was so stressed at the "new smells" that she stuffed her entire litter of babies in her pouches and frantically ran around the cage furiously. By the time she un-stuffed the hammies from her pouches, they were all suffocated and dead

Make sure she has her own smell and if it becomes offensive, just remove the soiled bedding from the corners that she uses and throw some clean, dry bedding to cover the odor and the bare spot. Avoid using cedar, instead I recomend pine or corn cob. Cedar smells the best, but it's not the best choice for the sensetive babies. Also avoid the chlorophill pine (pine with some green chips mixed in) because it is not natural and has alot of dye in it to make it that bright. They sell great nesting material that the hammies love to chew up and make a nest out of, especially when they are expecting. I don't like to use kleenex or toilet paper, because they are either bleached or they have been dyed, and sometimes have chemical fragrences which can harm those most delicate pinkies. Avoid handleing the babies until they have hair, and only if mom is not too stressed out about it. If she is not very hand tame, then it might not be a good idea to hold her babies until they are pleanty too big to stuff in her pouches.

Be careful...even if she is nice now, and she has not ever bitten you before...beware, mom hammies pack a powerful punch with those teeth! I had a new momma bite clear through my thumb nail . Just keep that in mind.

Hammies are not very maternal, nor are they very good mothers. They often eat their young, or sometimes, part of their young. She may eat off only a foot, leaving the rest of the baby to eventually die. They have been known to have absolutely no interest in the pinkies, and let them die. If she starts eating her young, just leave the room and let nature take it's course. You won't be able to raise or save those babies, and it is probablly the quickest way for them to go, gross as it may be.

As long as miss hammie is not stressed and healthy and hand tame, you can do little more. Just remember that when the babies begin walking, you will have to lower the water bottle so they can reach it, but be so careful that it is not low enough to soak up all the bedding, as wet bedding is another cause of wet tail, and never put a water dish in with them. I would make sure mom has really good, nutritious food, no lettuce ever, minimal veggies (as they cause wet tail, or chronic diheriha which quickly kills), put some hammie vitamins in her water, and to her seed mix, maybe add a little hay cube, it's fun to chew on and it's healthy.

Don't be too surprised if mom eats any or all of her kids...not that uncommon. When we had our many litters of hammies, we always either played gentle and quiet classical music, or we avoided music until the babies were gaining visible strentgh, and mom was not showing any signs of stress. I just really tried to minimize the noise for the new mom for at least a few days.

Don't worry and enjoy Chances are that mom will raise her babies like a good little hammie. All you will be able to do is provide safe bedding, minimize stress, and provide all the healthy stuff that will make mom produce healthy milk, and help boost those kids to grow up big and strong.

Also note...I don't know if you knew this, but they will start reproducing soon after they are weaned...babies can have babies, litterly. So seperate those little boys from those little girls and mom as soon as they are eating and drinking on their own...also, are they dwarf hammies, or syrian hammies? Dwarf hammies are much, much more social then syrian hammies...syrian hammies will fight and kill once they begin to establish territory.

I assume you have seen baby pinkies (baby hammies, gerbals, mice, rats)? If you have never seen them, which you probablly have, They are certainlly not the cutest things until they get hair They still look like fetuses because they are so under developed! Brace yourself But they are SOOOO cute once they get their hair

Good luck I wish the best for you and for mom hammie