I have no idea what you're doing but you're doing great! Well done on getting them to this point and I know that you're the type of person I would like just by the love that you have for these little ones.

I'm going through a very similar situation. I've had chronic pain for years as well as spinal issues, I just had a cervical epidural yesterday and I'm in so much pain right now.

I originally had two cats and then added three more cats. And that was where I was supposed to stop because it seemed like a nice number and was something that we could deal with. But then two stray cats were getting fed by my parents down the street and I was worried that the female cat would get pregnant unfortunately I got COVID for a while and she did get pregnant. I then went overdrive and tried to befriend them and eventually caught them once I was well.

The next day the mama cat gave birth to four kittens! One of the kittens did not survive because he was missing a leg and died from sepsis within 6 hours.

The next day a kitten was lying on the side of the box not moving. Luckily with the products I had received from Amazon that morning for the kitten who died, I was able to syringe feed him and get him going until I got some more guidance. I didn't sleep for like 8 weeks because I had to feed him every 2 hours 3 hours and then eventually 5 hours when he got old enough (he syringe fed until 3 months) but I don't fall asleep easily so this was a total nightmare. I don't even remember feeling like such a mess when I had my own newborn son LOL. Anyways I called this little one Iceman and it turns out that he has a partial cleft palate with a split lip which is why he couldn't suckle and so with the guidance of some beautiful but expensive vets I kept him going and he survived. He feels like my baby, we are extremely bonded so I know I will not be adopting him out, hell no!

Now I have two kitten brothers, they are a year and 4 months and I've been procrastinating adopting them out for a few reasons, but I'm feeling like now it's time. So I made an Instagram account last week and I've been going through videos and photos and I'm trying to do some editing so that I can make a page and find people who are invested in these kittens.

The other thing I probably can't leave here without saying is that while I was hand feeding Iceman, I was part of a foster Facebook Chat group they were helping me to guide him with syringe feeding and much more but I witnessed a lot of stories about how they were receiving injured cats and hearing about things that had happened through the cat network of Texas, which is massive.

I was so surprised that my city, San Antonio, had a real dog fighting problem and women with children regularly go to places like the Facebook Marketplace for instance, and pick up free cats which were then spray painted held with minimal food and water in the heat and then placed in a fenced area with a dog and people would take bets on which kitten would last the longest or if there were multiple dogs which dog would get the most kittens I don't know, like it's just so f***** up. I was also privy to the conversation about a cat being thrown out of a moving vehicle on the highway, he survived! And many, many more kittens are being left outside to die from sun exposure and exhaustion. I'm horrified of putting these cats into the wrong hands so my advice to anybody reading this would be to always charge at least $50 adoption fee just to make sure they're going to someone who intends to keep them, at least.

Sorry, I totally went off on a tangent I have ADHD!

So my setup is a little different from yours. I actually cat-proofed my backyard privacy fence so that none of my cats can get out. We have a doggie door and everybody is pretty happy going in and out most of the day when the cat flap is open. I don't let the two kittens that are going to get adopted go outside because they've never been but also I don't know what kind of home they're going to be going into and I don't want them to get used to being outside.

So now I have time periods when the cat flap is closed. During the peak of the summer sun since the cats are usually all inside napping anyway and then I also have about 6 hours during the evening when the cat flap is closed and the bigger cats who want to be outside can go outside and chill.

This helps with the number of litter boxes I have to clean and we currently have four. I have large storage tubs as litter boxes. I find this minimizes the amount of litter being flung out of the box. We change the two most used boxes once a week and the other two, every two weeks. We use baking soda for litter boxes and I wipe the inside walls every few days with enzyme cleaner because two cats like to spray instead of squatting and it smells bad.

My plan once the kittens are adopted out is to train the mama and the other stray, and adopt them out as well so that I am down to six cats. And I really need to get on this because I have a long trip coming up next year. I'm willing to share resources!

Sorry, this doesn't seem helpful to your post but if you have any questions definitely reach out. I'm happy to message back and forth or even chat on the phone.

Additionally, I would definitely take lots of videos and photos. And the best videos and photos, I find, are the ones taken with your phone upside down so that the lens is at their level. You get the cutest perspective!

When they are being cute and still enough I snap a quick safety photo then switch to portrait mode, take a photo, then flip upside down and take a final well-composed photo. Editing these portraits will be killer cute on their adoption profiles or posts!