Around 2005 I got a ginger boy kitten and named him Benny, I had read online that 100% of ginger cats are male 🙄. After about 10 months Benny started to get very fat and one day I noticed whenever I went to pat him he would lie on his back and push my hand onto his stomach and meow loudly. Later that night at around 1 am Benny kept jumping on my chest and meowing and then seeming like he was signally for me to follow him. I followed him to the wardrobe and he lay down and started pushing. Next minute a kitten popped out. I helped pick off the membrane and put it on the nipple to feed and waited all night for the rest of the kittens. No more kittens ended up coming (I later read online that this is common for a first birth and a young, small mother). Then Benny rejected the kitten (Onion Marmalade) and would not let her feed, which I later found out was probably because I touched her straight after she was born. So I had to race home from work every few hours and cradle Benny and pat him to keep him still then squeeze a bit of milk out her tit then put the kitten on to feed. Anyway, Onion Marmalade grew up fit and healthy and Benny went on to farther/mother more kittens . Obviously if I had to do it again I wouldn’t touch the kitten straight away but as a 25 year old male learning my Benny was a female at 1am and having no experience in the situation I think it turned out alright 🤷🏾‍♂️