She gave me her first big purr at last feeding, so I changed the spelling of her name. This feeding was the most successful of all, she fell asleep with the nipple still in her mouth. She is no way out of the woods yet and I won’t breathe easy for at least 30 days. But here, you might be able to tell how her coat is changing and getting oily. In my experience this is always something that precedes a bad illness in cats and kittens.
But she is a trooper and she is hanging in there for now. Praying she stays in the here-and-now.
Let’s hope she gives many more of those big purrs. But at the very least, she felt contentment with you; warmth, love and a full tummy.
You said her umbilical cord was still attached to her when she was found. How old would that make her at that time?
She was probably about a day old if that. The umbilical cord will usually dry out and crumble away in a week’s time. Hers was still moist and resembled the umbilical cord of a kitten pulled from a mom during a C-section. 🙁