Kim I have only had one recent experience in kitten birth and that was with Pervy. As a kid (before everyone knew to spay) all of our cats took care of everything. With Pervy I had to cut the cords, clean, and then dispose of the after birth. As a matter of fact I also had to pull one afterbirth out and later I had to pull one of the stillborn babies out. Pervy didn't help do anything! I think for her it was youth. The fear and pain confused her and of course later on she got very ill with a high fever and couldn't do anything. In the beginning she just paniced! We came home from work and found a baby on the kitchen floor and thought it was dead. The afterbirth was on top of it and hubby grabbed a paper towel to clean it up, while I was frantically searching for Pervy, and it screamed! Scared him to death! It was my first experience with a momma cat who didn't seem to know what to do. It was also my first experience with hands on birthing of ANYTHING and although hubby gagged and ran I was rather proud of myself for managing the whole thing!
I'm happy for you that at least now she is taking care of them and I'm sure she will be a great mom. Maybe she knew you would do it for her so she didn't have to clean all that mess up!

Looking at the other thread makes me miss Pervy's babies. None of them survived. I am having a GREAT TIME looking at these new babies though! I'm back to the thread to check them out again!!