Before you can have a litter kittens from your female you'll have to wait until she is an adult with the right age for giving birth ofcourse!
When she has the right age for it, mostly when she is 1-1,5  years old, you'll have to wait until she comes in heat.

When the female is in heat, you bring her to the stud on day 2 or 3. Ofcourse the stud also must have been tested negative on aids and leukemia!

I mostly give my female a treatment against worms and cut the nails from her frontlegs before I bring her to the stud. And I only will bring her there when she is optimal condition.

After being for 3 - 5 days with a stud, the female can be taken home.

On the left you see Yrsa being pregnant just 3 days before she gave birth to her very first litter.
Females deliver their kittens mostly on day 63-65 counted from day one or two from the mating with the stud

As soon as the first kitten is born, the mother will start to wash the kitten, the washing stimulates the breathing of the kitten.

On the left you see my very proud and happy Shari with her first litter.
Soo touching.

In the first week of his life a kitten will (almost) double his birthweight.
He spent his days sucking milk and sleeping. He can't see (his eyes are closed) and can't hear. He only can smell and feel.
When the mother leaves the litter for a little while, the kittens will be laying against each other to keep each other warm.
While they are sleeping they often make smacking noises with their mouth and are shaking with their bodies.
When they 'feel' there is a threat they already can spit and blow.

Sharikenzo's Lars 5 days old

Sharikenzo's Kjirsa 2 weeks old

2 WEEKS OLD

In week 2 the kittens can crawl around and their eyes will be opened now, but they can't see very clearly at this moment.
They also react on noises and caressing from people.

They discover their own legs and often start to suck on it - they also suck on their brothers and sisters :-)

This is the time for a breeder to make a start with the weaning of the kittens. Most breeders will start with a kind of porridge made of kittenmilk with rice etc in it.
I mostly prefer to serve raw flesh or wetfood made creamy with kittenmilk.

Sharikenzo's Fjihrynn 3 weeks old and eating raw sliced flesh

Sharikenzo's Karli and Kjirsa

As soon as the kittens will eat food theirselves(there are kittens who refuse to eat at this young age, they only want milk from their mother), I will place a cat's box in their neighbourhood.

Mostly they start with eating stones out of the cat's box and play in it.
But quite soon they realise that you have to pee and poop in the cat's box. The first poop of a kitten can be a real long poop and will cause some pain. Kittens will let you know and HEAR when they are delivering their first poop :-).

At this age they already play with each other and are practising for a marathon in the future.

Now is the time to give the litter the first treatment against worms.
They mostly don't like this and try to spit it out.

Because they can walk better and better, they make longer walks in my house and when they have to pee, they have to rightaway! So sometimes they pee at not wanted places in my room. Time to place more cat's boxes in the house!!!!

Sharikenzo's Arliss

Sharikenzo's Yardo

Most kittens eat around this age quite good. When I give them a plate with boiled chicken pieces, the plate is almost empty before I served it.

There are kittens who eat dryfood at the age of 3 weeks, but there are also kittens who refuse to eat dryfood on the age of 6 weeks.

This is the age most kittens start to see me as their second mother. Ofcourse some kittens did this at an earlier age.

They want to climb in my throusers/legs as if I am a living cat-climbing tree.
They also will come to me when I call them by name.

Sharikenzo's Kjirsa, Karli and Kjelmar 7 weeks old

Sharikenzo's Fjihrynn and Fjordas 8 weeks old

The time for their second wormtreatment, because they will be vaccinated for the first time in week 9.

They also may walk in the fresh air in my run with the other adult cats. 
But I think the kittens don't care in which room or what they are as long as they can play with each other and the cattoys.

Sharikenzo's Lara in the hand of the vet.

The first visit to the vet for their first vaccination.
The vet will check every kitten by listening to its heart and longs for instance. He will also look in the ears, eyes and throat etc

When everything is okay, the kitten will get his first vaccination

Sharikenzo's Laika

The kittens are real part of the family right now and this makes it very hard to think about their leaving the house in the nearest future.

For me this is the time asking myself WHY I 'like' breeding cats. (sigh)

Sharikenzo's Aylin 10 weeks old

Sharikenzo's Kaydo 11 weeks old

Time for the third treatment against worms.

The kittens are very noisy at this age when they are awake, but I love to watch them playing, fighting and chasing....
Some of them think they are real macho's and even chase at the adult cats in the house or even bang the adult cats on their heads. The adult cats don't know how to handle with this because they don't expect things like this from a small kitten.

In this week the kittens will get their second vaccination and the countdown for their departure starts.

All kittens can eat everything adult cats eat, but most of them still love to suck by their mother. They even want to suck on the other adult cats here.

Sharikenzo's Lindy 12 weeks old

Sharikenzo's Lars 13 weeks old

The days with a smile and  tears.....

Tears from me because the kittens will leave the house.
The smiles from the new owners of the kitten(s) who finally can get the kitten they have been waiting for for weeks and weeks.