hi everyone new to this forum, after some advice my ragdoll cat who is on the active register went into labour on tuesday morning first kitten was born easily with no problems this is my cats first litter i was well prepared for everything and have had kittens in the past so confident about the birthing process and everything involved, anyway kitten was fine about 20 minutes later she gave birth to another kitten who was born dead i could see straight away, but still tried to resuitate it, it looked healthy and was a good size put it down to just one of those things 2o minutes later same thing happened another stillborn one, i was upset but again just thought this probably just happens, mum was happy with her first kitten and concentrated on him, could tell that mum was still very big and was due more kittens, all afternoon i sat with her but nothing happend but mum was eating and acting as though it was all over, looked on the internet and decided that she has something called interupted labour, where the cat has a long rest and the rest of the kittens can be born 24 to 36 hours later and as long as the cat is happy not to worry , all night nothing but mum is purring and quite happy with her firstborn kitten, in the morning at about 8.00 a fourth kitten was born, no problem having it and very healthy, so was pleased about this then 20 minutes later i could see she was having another one unfortunately just one foot was showing and the sac had broken she was quite a while delivering this one again he was dead but i think this was due to being large and being stuck for a while, mum went back to her two kittens started eating and acting that it was all over again, i felt her tummy and could see she was still having another one, wasent sure what to do left it a couple of hours and then phoned the vet, she had heard of this before if she didnt have it in another hour to bring her down, luckily she had the sixth one half hour later again stillborn. mum is now happily looking after two kittens and everything is fine. just after some advice if any of you breeders have experienced a similar thing or why you think so many kittens died any advice appreciated